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GOLD, the follow-up to Alabaster DePlume's widely-acclaimed, 2020-released cinematic instrumental LP To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1, introduces the world to the artist’s truest self.

Never before reissued, this legendary 1968 EMI recording is a revered Indian jazz rarity, a collectors' holy grail. Raga Jazz Style is an original Indian excursion into Indo-jazz fusion. A one-away recording from the almost unknown Bombay jazz scene, it is among the few jazz LPs to hail from the subcontinent.Closely contemporary with the UK-based explorations of Amancio D'Silva, John Mayer and Joe Harriott, Raga Jazz Style takes the melodic, scale-based raga system of Indian classical music and marries it with a swinging jazz rhythm section assembled by Bollywood's most highly acclaimed musical directors, the soundtrack composing duo Shankar Singh and Jaikishan Panchal.Singh and Panchal were a dominant force in Hindi film music from the late 1940s onwards. Shankar had been trained in classical tabla, while Jaikishan was an expert harmonium player. They worked together on well over a hundred films, and their innovative compositions and orchestral scoring revolutionised the music of the nascent Bollywood industry. Central to their sound was regular collaborator Sebastian D'Souza. From 1952 onwards, D'Souza would work on every Shankar Jaikishan soundtrack, eventually becoming Bollywood's most coveted musical arranger.Originally from Goa, D'Souza had cut his teeth in the dance-band era, arranging and playing with his uncle's jazz bands in Lahore and Quetta. After Partition, he had moved to Bombay to follow the reliable work provided by the film industry, where Goan musicians had become the mainstay of Bollywood's film studio orchestras. Goans were also the core of Bombay's thriving dance-hall and hotel-based jazz scene, with artists including saxophonist Braz Gonsalves, guitarist Amancio D'Silva and trumpeter Chic Chocolate all working in the city during the post-war years.The team assembled for Raga Jazz Style were drawn from this inventive and forward-thinking milieu. Pianist Lucilla Pacheco, saxophonist Manohari Singh and guitarist Anibal Castro were all fixtures on the Bombay jazz circuit, while drummer Leslie Godinho is reputed to have taught Joe Morello the 5/4 'Take Five' beat when they jammed together during Dave Brubeck's State Department tour of India. To this jazz backbone was added the sitar of Ustad Rais Khan, scion of long line of classical instrumentalists, and nephew of the renowned sitarist Ustad Vilayat Khan. Bombay's jazz modernists had been experimenting with the fusion of ragas and jazz since the 1950s, long before American or British jazz musicians had tuned in to Indian classical music. But very little of this exciting scene was ever captured on record. Raga Jazz Style offers a rare chance to hear the innovative sounds of the Indian jazz scene, as peerless composers Shankar Jaikishan and arranging supremo D'Souza join with veteran Bombay jazzers to explore classical themes in a jazz setting — eleven ragas to a swinging beat!This is a highly impressive inaugural salvo by Outernational Sounds, using original masters and beautifully rendered facsimile artwork, with 180g vinyl pressed at Pallas, in Germany.

Le maître du Danzon cubano...Press vénézuélienne de 1974 (orig 1960). LE QUINTETO MATANCERONé à Bolondron le 4 décembre 1909, Barbarito Diez passe son enfance et son adolescence dans la plantation sucrière « Manati », où débute sa carrière artistique amateur. Fraîchement débarqué à La Havane, il devient l’ami du troubadour-compositeur Graciano Gomez, qui l’aide à intégrer le Quinteto Matancero. Cette première expérience lui permet d’acquérir de précieux enseignements sur sa propre manière de chanter. Il enregistre quelques disques avec ce quintette, et voyage à Porto Rico, en Haïti, en République Dominicaine et aux Etats-Unis.A VERDADERA HISTORIACependant, Barbarito Diez ne connaîtra la gloire et la reconnaissance du public cubain que grâce à sa collaboration avec Antonio Maria Romeu, tandis que celui-ci trouvera enfin, en Barbarito, un chanteur faisant corps avec sa musique, doté d’une voix cristalline. Ensemble, ils enregistrent de nombreux disques pour le label Panart, y incluant les thèmes les plus représentatifs du répertoire tradionnel.Antonio Maria Romeu est né le 11 septembre 1876 à Jibacoa. A 22 ans, il part pour la Havane à la recherche de nouveaux horizons et débute avec succès au café La Diana. Accompagné d’un seul joueur de güiro, il joue des danzones qui révèlent au public ses exceptionnels dons de pianiste.