Erik Truffaz is a French Jazz trumpeter. Mostly making music influenced by Jazz, Hip-Hop, R&B & genres of that sort, mostly labeled as Acid Jazz. Jun 06, 2001 Truffaz and his re-mixers are already there on 'Revisite' although in not quite as progressive or difficult a way as Mclaughlin was attempting. Also, anyone who likes this disc should also check out 'Pariah's Pariah' by Gary Thomas.
The seven tracks on Revisité are 'remixes' of tunes that Erik Truffaz, the adventurous French trumpeter, previously explored with his jazz quartet. In a bid to crosspollinate jazz with new sounds being explored in ambient and electronica, Truffaz enlists the talents of six guest artists to reinterpret his work through their own experimental points of view. Like Truffaz himself, these musical seekers hail from Europe -- Pierre Audétat, Alex Gopher, Pierre Henry, Goo, and Bugge Wesseltoft, as well as Mobile in Motion (Christophe Calpini and Fred Hashadourian), which splits 'The Dawn' into two parts that respectively open and close the album. There's a mellow, even minimalistic vibe to much of the music, with the possible exception of Alex Gopher's party-worthy 'Bending New Corners.' Truffaz's sparse trumpet work over these electronic loops and grooves does, of course, recall Miles Davis, but what's interesting about this record, and others like it, is that it signifies a new direction in music -- not a throwback to fusion, not a concession to commercial pressures, but a fecund meeting of some very different yet complementary musical minds. Wesseltoft's dark blend of Rhodes, acoustic bass, drum samples, and rap vocal snippets on 'Sweet Mercy' represents a new kind of musical mosaic, an idea with a very promising future.
Sample | Title/Composer | Performer | Time | Stream |
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1 | 04:58 | Amazon | ||
2 | Marc Erbetta / Marcello Giuliani / Patrick Muller / Erik Truffaz | feat: Pierre Audétat | 04:54 | Amazon |
3 | Marc Erbetta / Marcello Giuliani / Patrick Muller / Erik Truffaz | feat: Alex Gopher | 07:55 | Amazon |
4 | Marc Erbetta / Marcello Giuliani / Patrick Muller / Erik Truffaz | feat: Pierre Henry | 11:55 | Amazon |
5 | Marc Erbetta / Marcello Giuliani / Patrick Muller / Erik Truffaz | feat: Goo | 05:24 | Amazon |
6 | Marc Erbetta / Marcello Giuliani / Patrick Muller / Erik Truffaz | feat: Bugge Wesseltoft | 08:13 | Amazon |
7 | feat: Mobile In Motion | 04:22 | Amazon |