Bringing The Flame Home: From Havana to Africa.(Mapleshade) The really neat thing about the Mapleshade/ Wildchild! agglomeration ag·glom·er·a·tion n. 1. The act or process of gathering into a mass. 2. A confused or jumbled mass: is that there are no rules. If something sounds like it's making sense--or simply has everyone in the joint rocking, toe tapping, or swaying back and forth, they record it. Bringing the Flame Home is a case in point. The Mapleshade studios were just a rest stop for legendary Ghanian percussionist Asante and his Cuban pianist, Benito Gonzales. The studio folks quickly recruited Joe Ford, McCoy Tyner's saxophonist, and bassist Gavin Fallow fallow a pale cream, light fawn, or pale yellow coat color in dogs. for not so much an impromptu session as planned serendipity serendipity happy finding of an unexpected object or solution while searching for something else. . The result, recorded directly to two-track, is a fearsome streak of Afro-Cuban jazz Afro-Cuban jazz is a variety of Latin jazz, which was started by Dr. Obdulio Morales in the 1930s,(Cuba). Other well-known variant of Latin jazz is Brazilian jazz. Afro-Cuban jazz was played in the U.S. , punctuated with Ford's choice melodic work and augmented by Asante's traveling percussionists. Wunderkinder Gonzales, who's all of 22 or 23, spatters the soundscape sound·scape n. An atmosphere or environment created by or with sound: the raucous soundscape of a city street; a play with a haunting soundscape. with wave upon wave of musical invention, expanding his already impressive compositions into otherworldly directions. There are a number definitions of "joy," one of which is this disc. |
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