Jazz

This piece was my 2003 IAJE/ASCAP Commission piece. That year's pieces were dedicated to Marian McPartland. Before I knew that I had started working on something dedicated to Jimmy Giuffre, so I decided in the end that it would be a discussion between Marian and Jimmy featuring Gary Versace.

Folkmoot from A Blessing, John Hollenbeck Large Ensemble

This work by John Hollenbeck & the Claudia Quintet with Gary Versace is made possible 
with support from Chamber Music America's 2009 New Jazz Works: Commissioning and 
Ensemble Development program funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
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Royal Toast from Royal Toast, Cuneiform Records

The new recording from ALIENTO.
Release Date (France) : 27.10.2014

Balkan Pursuit

Dania

Vinyl, CD and digital: https://www.faroutrecordings.com/collections/nomadeorquestra/products/nomade-orquestra-entremundos

Nomade Orquestra return from the stratosphere via Brazil with their second offering: Entremundos (Between Worlds). Gazing outward through a kaleidoscope from the heart of Sao Paulo’s jazz scene, the collective consciousness of the ten-man orquestra has dreamt up an adventurous amalgam of earth’s most far reaching musical cultures. Recorded at Red Bull Studios, Sao Paulo, Entremundos is like a cosmic musical playground where Ethio-jazz, Indian classical and Oriental sounds dance around Afro-Brazilian roots rhythms and Northern hemisphere jazz, funk, soul, library music and hip-hop influences. The sheer vastness of the album is astounding, Nomade Orquestra have quite literally conquered the world in sound.

Entremundos

Jardins de Zaira

Dave Holland Quartet - Black Hole

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On his debut album Travesseiro Feliz (Happy Pillow) Rio de Janeiro based dreamer and new Far Out Recordings signing Ricardo Richaid melds his tropical heritage with his love for psychedelic music, jazz and rock. He also takes inspiration from the many Brazilian greats – Caetano Veloso, Arthur Verocai, Ivan Lins, Joyce, Hermeto Pascoal, Marcos Valle and Azymuth (to name a few) – who he has worked with as an engineer, assistant and producer, in Rio’s former RCA studio, Cia dos Tecnicos.

As well as being heavily influenced by Brazil’s fabled Tropicalia movement, Richaid is the grandson of Brazilian actor, singer and Disney star Aurora Miranda (Carmen Miranda’s younger sister), so tropicalism is in his blood. Describing his sound as ‘Industrial Tropicalism’, Richaid’s music is undoubtedly a product of his environment. Just like Rio, it’s warm, hazy and beautiful. But reflecting the current mood of his homeland, there’s an ominous smog looming amongst its charm. Lamenting the political, economic and ecological crisis he sees engulfing Brazil, Richaid’s obscure, poetic lyrics touch on drugs, drones and darkness, emphasizing the importance of art to bring light in troubled times.

The unconventional time signatures and sunny jazz-folk meets post-punk aesthetic are adorned by Richaid’s studio smarts. Working day to day in Rio’s top studios, he developed a comprehensive knowledge of all aspects of the recording process. But seeking autonomy and total creative independence, Richaid went on an equipment finding mission in the USA. Upon returning, he set to work building his own studio in Rio’s Gavea district and began writing the tracks that would become Travesserio Feliz. Singlehandedly composing, producing and mixing everything himself, Richaid recalls the endless nights he spent working on the album, often sleeping on the studio floor.

Travisseiro Feliz features a host of notable names from across Rio’s music spectrum, including percussion sensation Marcos Suzano (Gilberto Gil), experimental pop artist Ana Frango Eletrico, and vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Jose Ibarra, who has been lauded for his recent performances as part of Milton Nascimento’s touring group. On interlude track ‘Formigas’ we also hear a few verses of Ricardo singing together with his 7-year-old daughter, Nina Richaid.

Living with his grandmother Aurora Miranda until the age of seventeen (who featured in Walt Disney’s Three Caballeros film, and happens to be the first human being to kiss Donald Duck… really!), young Ricardo would listen with intrigue to his father playing chromatic scales and bossa nova melodies on the saxophone; his mother’s Brazilian classical piano; or his punk rock brother slamming the drums. This eclectic musical upbringing led a teenage Ricardo to learning his trade as the bassist in a short-lived hard rock band, which disbanded when Ricardo began to dig deeper discovering the likes of Os Mutantes, King Crimson, Frank Zappa and especially the ‘Clube De Esquina’ sound pioneered by Milton Nascimento and Lo Borges. Since then, alongside engineering some of his musical heroes in Brazil, Richaid has played in bands like Mara Rúbia and nitú, from Rio’s underground experimental psych and jazz scenes.

Following lead single ‘Largado Nu’ on the 17th January, Richaid will release his debut album Travessiero Feliz on limited vinyl, CD, cassette and digitally in March 2020, via Far Out Recordings.

Vinyl / CD / Digi

Ricardo Richaid - Largado Nu

Julien Behar - alto sax, flute
Christophe Chaïr - drums, percussions 
Rémi Gadret - electric bass
Philippe Rak - vibraphone

MOCKBA 80

Ne'eman

Kartet - Kalle Gilli

Kartet - Possib'

Plural, eclectic, raw and sensitive, at the crossroads of an imaginary soundtrack and a fiesta in a souk, Z COMME sound paste is full of energy. An invitation to meditation as to dance!
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JULIEN BEHAR saxs & fx, comp.
CHRISTOPHE CHAÏR percussions
STEPHANE DECOLLY electric bass
PHILIPPE RAK vibraphone, marimba, synthesizer, Hammond organ
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Plurielle, éclectique, brute et sensible, au carrefour d'une bande son imaginaire et d'une fiesta dans un souk, la "pâte" sonore de Z COMME est gorgée d'énergie.
Une invitation à la méditation comme à la danse !

Ne'eman

Z COMME

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