Smoothed
I think this is the second album/collaboration by French pair
Alex Tassel and Yann LeBreuilly, and it is an electronic chillout-jazz
collection which does precisely that: chills. Each track is a construction of samples
and inserted recordings, often looped, and the musical cores are themselves
electronic constructs working melodically through repeating themes across
various synthesised instruments, vocal accompaniments and horn blasts [real
trumpet solos, I think] respectively caressing or punctuating the casual
rhythms. It reminds me very much of Courtney Pine’s Modern Day Jazz Stories, though this probably says as much about my
narrow experience of this type of sampling/hip hop jazz as anything. Fourth
track Actions & Reactions is the
closest in style to this comparison with Pine, sans the sax. Much more hot
cocoa than hot chillies, but soothing.
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