Torres/Garay/Malik: Altiplano

wykonawcy

Malik, Magic;
Torres, Jaime;
Garay, Minino

nr katalogowy

AC 125

opis

In the Andes, the Altiplano, a high plain, is divided between Argentina, Bolivia, Chile and Peru. The batter Minino Garay (born in 1965 in Cordoba, settled for twenty years in France) and the stringer Jaime Torres (born in 1938 in Buenos Aires of Bolivian father and Chilean mother) are Argentines, the flutist Magic Malik (born in 1969 in Ivory Coast) grew up in his original Guadeloupe before coming to France at the age of seventeen. The trio recorded fifteen titles published in 2008 between Paris and Buenos Aires, accompanied by half a dozen musicians (drums, sax, bass ...) and especially by the great tango pianist (and not only that), Gustavo Beytelmann (born in 1945 in Venado Tuerto) who fled, for France, the Argentine dictatorship of 1976.

This album is above all a superb tribute to the charango, the guitar of the peasants of the Andean Cordillera, culture and instrument of Jaime Torres since he was five years old. Moreover, Minino, who generally hits hard, has been able to make his tools (cajón, bombo) more discreet to leave the king's part to Torres, to Malik's flute (Mezzadri), to Beytelmann's keyboard in pieces that begin often intimate then become more convivial, like Si tu me olvidas (taken up in chorus like a national anthem when Jaime played it in Bolivia), in La Puñalada, Uruguayan milonga with African roots, ancestor of tango.

The Cochabambinita, despite its brevity, and the traditional Altiplano remain strong moments of the disc which often attempts fusions of Andean folk and jazz, not always convincing like Pilote, Manuela or Titicaca, signed by Malik, follower of the blue note, who got us used to better. We prefer our flute on Zumba than zumba, a moving joropo from the Venezuelan plains, more sober then hair-raising, with its Arabic accents; Spain obliges. Jazz succeeds better in the remorse of Nostalgias tucumanas, a zamba with Peruvian origins, immortalized by the great Atahualpa Yupanqui (1908-1992) whose blues hovers over this abundant record.•David Marif | akhaba.com

nośnik

gatunek

World music

producent

Accords Croisés

data wydania

09-06-2008

EAN / kod kreskowy

794881885220