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Joe Zawinul - My People (1996)
Label: Escapade Music | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | 52:39 | 338.2 MB | 11 tracks
Genre: Jazz, Jazz Fusion, World Fusion
Label: Escapade Music | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | 52:39 | 338.2 MB | 11 tracks
Genre: Jazz, Jazz Fusion, World Fusion
On this vibrantly kinetic, celebratory, and brilliantly multicultural 1996 studio album, legendary keyboard pioneer and Weather Report co-founder Joe Zawinul delivers a high-fidelity masterpiece of global musical unity. Appropriately titled My People, this Escapade Music release serves as a stunning, panoramic showcase for his boundary-breaking world-jazz-fusion concepts, bringing together a spectacular cast of vocalists and instrumentalists from across the globe. Zawinul commands the session with his unmatched synthesizer architecture and soulful Rhodes textures, weaving intricate electronic lines around thunderous, earthy organic rhythms. The record serves as a true global village of sound, featuring soaring West African vocals from Salif Keita and Cheick Tidiane Seck, fiery Latin grooves, and deep European folk lineages, all unified under Zawinul's infectious, driving rhythmic pocket. From the driving, high-energy syncopation of "Waraya" and "Bimoya" to the hypnotic, shifting landscape of "Orient Express," this pristine recording stands as an essential, deeply joyous monument to modern world fusion history.
