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MP3 Jugalbandi - From Is to Was
13 MP3 Songs in this album (45:19) !
Related styles: World: World Fusion, Folk: Celtic Fusion, Instrumental
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Mohtine from the Bayou Comet writes …
FROM IS TO WAS
This is the vibrant debut album from Gordon Irvine and Chris Kant as
Jugalbandi, an Indian word meaning two performers in concert who fuse
different instruments or systems of music: they use 12 and 6 string
guitars, Greek baglama (a long necked bowl-lute), mandolin, octave
mandolin and cittern, and so one or two listens will illustrate that
it does what it says on the packet.
Some of the tracks have percussive elements which provide extra depth
and power to the dynamic of the strings. For those who want a peg on
which to hang this new work, there are echoes of Pentangle, Hot Club
de France and primitive Penguin Café Orchestra but with Jazz
Manouche, blues, latin rhythms and mariachi - all thrown into the
juicer.
The first track “Baglamarama” kicks off with shambolic mastery and
frenetic lashings of the baglama. The tempo drops just a notch with
the existentially named track “From Is To Was”, in which guitar and
octave mandolin summon up the ambience and stop-start movement of
life in the hot, busy streets of Latin America or Africa.
The subtlety of the playing style, compositions and arrangements is
evident in the flamboyancy of “With The Greatest of Ease” and the
bebop influences of “The Bell is Ringing”. The low points of the
album are when, in “Lord Mayo”, the percussive element and punk
stridency drive the music just that little bit too hard and when, in
“Basildon Boy” the questionable use of a thirties cigar-box blues
filter means the album finishes with a thin distillation of a tune
which has a lot going for it in the form of unusual blues structures.
Celtic influences are found in the traditional arrangements of “Paddy
Fahey’s Reel, “Tradition Times Two “ and in the original tunes “
Waverley” and “Tune for Jacob” but again there is a reworking with
Latin American and African overtones and harmonies.
“The Spirit is Willing” and the waltz “Evening Rose” are original
compositions with reflective, almost elegiac reprises which serve as
an acoustic balm for any 21st century angst. "El Gato" (The Cat)
with its spiralling, sensuous build-up and its obvious nod to Latin
America stands out as the musical highpoint of the album.
The partnership is less than two years old but is underpinned by
years of folk and rock playing. It does not require imagination to
see that some of the tracks immediately lend themselves to theme or
incidental music for film and television. This is not an album for
musical purists, but if you like your music instrumental, well-
blended and served up with some elegant style, powerful vamping and a
definite groove, then go out and avail yourself of this powerful
musical juice from Jugalbandi.
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