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    Al Di Meola - Twentyfour (2024)

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    Al Di Meola - Twentyfour (2024)

    Al Di Meola - Twentyfour (2024)
    EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 499 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 190 Mb | 01:22:35
    Jazz Fusion, Guitar Virtuoso | Label: earMUSIC

    Al Di Meola's "Twentyfour," is a testament to creativity. Conceived during the tumultuous times of the pandemic, what started as a simple acoustic project evolved into something much grander. Al's initial intention to craft a reflective acoustic album on the challenges of the time expanded exponentially as he found himself unable to resist the allure of boundless musical exploration.

    Over the span of four years, "Twentyfour" blossomed into a masterpiece, brimming with intricately woven melodies, diverse instrumentation, and captivating highlights. It's a journey through Al's musical evolution, showcasing his virtuosity and vision in those special times. Each track is a moment within these four years and a contemporary witness to the events.

    AllMusic Review by Thom Jurek
    Al Di Meola's Across the Universe was released in March 2020, just as COVID-19 spread globally. In solitude, Di Meola fully engaged with his creativity. He began writing and demoing an acoustic album that reflected on the period. During the next year, his aesthetic plans began morphing into new shapes. Four years later – and less than one since suffering a heart attack on-stage – Twentyfour is released by Ear Music, three days before his 70th birthday.

    A 15-track, double-length offering, Twentyfour features Di Meola's acoustic and electric guitars (the latter a bit less prominently). He's accompanied alternately by a quintet, woodwinds, reeds, strings, organic percussion, and a chamber orchestra. First single and opener "Fandango" is an excellent display of flamenco-jazz fusion. His nylon string flourishes accompanied by the kinetic pulse of a cajón occasionally wanders into East Indian and North African traditions. Alternately, Di Meola double-tracks his guitars, playing rhythm, lead, and harmony simultaneously. Orchestral horns add texture, color, and drama. "Capriccio Suite" joins Di Meola's wonderfully idiosyncratic nuevo flamenco and tango styles to rhythmic syncopation provided by tabla, then veers off into modal improvisation. Arguably, "Ava's Dance in the Moonlight" (a single inspired by his daughter dancing in the studio) is the set's finest cut. Flamenco meets jazz meets classical as keys, Elias Tona's bass, Luis Alicea's drum kit, with subtle winds, horns, strings, and the guitarist's soulful fills, create accented juxtapositions across the intricate cinematic melody. "Immeasurable" is a 20-minute, three-part suite interspersed across the album. Its three parts offer detailed explorations of mode, lyric, and harmonic themes on acoustic guitars accompanied by either cajón or tabla. "Immeasurable Part 1," the longest movement, sets up the suite's musical motifs, blending classical technique with jazz improvisation. In the second, Di Meola's guitar opens the gate to the inner workings of the complex melody while increasing his playing speed; the third features jazz guitars playing in tandem in balladic tango form. The lush, elegant romantico "Eden" features the sublime vocals of Iván López to moving effect. Di Meola's acoustic guitar moves around the band's gentle, quietly shuffling accompaniment. He answers with "Close Your Eyes," a jazz lullaby grafted onto a cinematic fantasia painted by chamber orchestra, keyboards, and percussion. "For Only You," a solo nylon guitar piece, gracefully stitches chord shapes and pointillistic single-line runs through several genres and styles. It's answered by "Genetiki," a scorching fusion number that melds electric and acoustic guitars in front of a full band; it cuts across searing electric jazz and Asian and Afro-Latin rhythms. "Testament" follows suit, yet is vastly more orchestral. The closer, "Precocious," is a jazz exercise performed with Di Meola's double-tracked nylon guitars and a tabla. Twentyfour began life as an intimate acoustic meditation on a health crisis. The guitarist/composer's restless artistic shift to this kaleidoscopic offering is simultaneously disciplined, technically dazzling, lyrical, deeply moving, and above all, adventurous.
    Tracklist:
    01. Fandango
    02. Tears of Hope
    03. Esmeralda
    04. Capriccio Suite
    05. Ava's Dance in the Moonlight
    06. Immeasurable Part1
    07. Immeasurable Part2
    08. Eden
    09. Close Your Eyes
    10. Immeasurable Part3
    11. Paradox of Puppets
    12. For Only You
    13. Genetik
    14. Testament 24
    15. Precocious

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