Joachim Kuhn, Majid Bekkas, Ramon Lopez - Chalaba (2011)
Joachim Kuhn, Majid Bekkas, Ramon Lopez - Chalaba (2011)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+.log) & Scans | 54:21 mins | 340 MB
Fusion, World, Contemporary Jazz | Label: ACT Music
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+.log) & Scans | 54:21 mins | 340 MB
Fusion, World, Contemporary Jazz | Label: ACT Music
Chalaba is the trio's third album, following Kalimba (ACT Music, 2007) and Out Of The Desert (ACT Music, 2009). The latter featured additional Gnawa musicians from Morroco, Bekkas' homeland, and Benin but Chalaba returns to the simpler line up of the first album. This gives a more spacious feel to the music, more freedom for the individual musicians, and a little more stylistic variation.
This variation is immediately apparent on Kühn and Bekkas' joint composition "Enjoy," which combines Lopez' reggae influenced percussion, Kühn's rolling piano phrases and Bekkas' fluid vocal and strident, funky guembri into an insistently danceable tune. Bekkas' "Asmaa" is dedicated to his daughter and flows beautifully, with a touch of flamenco and, thanks to Lopez' tabla playing, a flavor of Indian percussion. Kühn's "Back to Normal" and "The Second Egg" are more distinctly drawn from his avant-garde roots: Bekkas' guembri playing could almost be mistaken for a double bass on these tracks as he underpins Kühn and Lopez' delicate interplay.
The trio composition "Soon in June" begins with a duet between Bekkas' voice and Kühn's alto saxophone before Lopez bursts in, Bekka's takes up his guembri and things kick off in a serious fashion. It's the album's most visceral piece; powerful and affecting. Kühn's "Play Golf in the Fresh Air" is equally powerful, but more humorous, a driving, rock-influenced tune that bowls along with good-natured danceability and a slight air of mystery. The 66-year-old Kühn, by the way, is at pains to point out that none of the band plays golf: "We're still too young for that."
Track Listing: Enjoy; Asmaa; Back to Normal; Play Golf in the Fresh Air; Chalaba; Soon in June; Hamdouchia; The Second Egg; Momoun Saadiyamou.
Personnel: Joachim Kühn: piano, alto saxophone; Majid Bekkas: vocals, guembri, oud; Ramon Lopez: drums, tabla, percussion.
Tracks:
01. Joachim Kuhn, Majid Bekkas, Ramon Lopez - Enjoy (5:14)
02. Joachim Kuhn, Majid Bekkas, Ramon Lopez - Asmaa (7:05)
03. Joachim Kuhn, Majid Bekkas, Ramon Lopez - Back To Normal (4:38)
04. Joachim Kuhn, Majid Bekkas, Ramon Lopez - Playing Golf In The Fresh Air (4:43)
05. Joachim Kuhn, Majid Bekkas, Ramon Lopez - Chalaba (9:56)
06. Joachim Kuhn, Majid Bekkas, Ramon Lopez - Soon in June (6:54)
07. Joachim Kuhn, Majid Bekkas, Ramon Lopez - Hamdouchia (5:16)
08. Joachim Kuhn, Majid Bekkas, Ramon Lopez - The Second Egg (5:43)
09. Joachim Kuhn, Majid Bekkas, Ramon Lopez - Mimoun Saadiyamou (4:55)
Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 4 from 23. January 2008
EAC extraction logfile from 12. March 2011, 18:51
Joachim Kuhn, Majid Bekkas, Ramon Lopez / Chalaba
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EAC extraction logfile from 12. March 2011, 18:51
Joachim Kuhn, Majid Bekkas, Ramon Lopez / Chalaba
Used drive : Optiarc DVD RW AD-7260S Adapter: 2 ID: 0
Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 48
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
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Gap handling : Appended to previous track
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Quality : High
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Additional command line options : -8 -V -T "ARTIST=%a" -T "TITLE=%t" -T "ALBUM=%g" -T "DATE=%y" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%n" -T "GENRE=%m" -T "COMMENT=EAC FLAC -8" %s
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1 | 0:00.00 | 5:13.55 | 0 | 23529
2 | 5:13.55 | 7:04.44 | 23530 | 55373
3 | 12:18.24 | 4:37.54 | 55374 | 76202
4 | 16:56.03 | 4:42.64 | 76203 | 97416
5 | 21:38.67 | 9:55.50 | 97417 | 142091
6 | 31:34.42 | 6:54.02 | 142092 | 173143
7 | 38:28.44 | 5:15.52 | 173144 | 196820
8 | 43:44.21 | 5:42.39 | 196821 | 222509
9 | 49:26.60 | 4:54.59 | 222510 | 244618
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