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The album Tourist is it seems, to me, underground and or experimental in its sound. With this album you can be a sound hearer hearing new songs played and heard for the first like you are one of the hippest people around. I would be happy if lots of us on Ciao got together and bought this ... Read review
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Tourist - St. Germain
Moby may have stolen his thunder on Play but St Germain, aka Ludovic Navarre, has been
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showcasing his futuristic nous and love of roots music by funking up the 4/4 electronic world with a little blues and gospel since the early 90s. After his F-Communi...
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Moby may have stolen his thunder onPlaybut St Germain, aka Ludovic Navarre, has been
... more
showcasing his futuristic nous and love of roots music by funking up the 4/4 electronic world with a little blues and gospel since the early 90s. After his F-Communica...
showcasing his futuristic nous and love of roots music by funking up the 4/4 electronic world with a little blues and gospel since the early 90s. After his F-Communications swan song, From Detroit To St Germain in 98, Navarre worked with a host of great session musicians for this, his major label debut. Tourist, his first album for the legendary Blue Note label, certainly justifies the continuing hype. A perfectly formed melodic journey of eclectic and idiosyncratic deep house that mixes blues, latin percussion and, of course, jazz without the noodle factor, Tourist is likely to generate as much head-nodding as dancing down your local groove emporium. The tracks range from the straight-ahead blues cut, "Rose Rouge" to the aptly titled "So Flute", an Afrobeat percussive shin-dig with a wondrous flute riff. "Latin Note", a funky latin stomper, reminiscent of Nuyorican Soul/Masters At Work is packed full of minor chords, smashing beats and off-the wall dynamics. Elsewhere, Navarre proves himself a master of suspense and beat-heavy poignancy, "Pont Des Arts" combines a carnival spirit with a monster piano groove, whereas "What You Think About" would have made Roy Ayers circa "Everybody Loves The Sunshine" very happy.Tourist is the kind of album that is put on at a fantastic, idyllic beach bar stereo at sunset and then constantly looped, a future classic. --Kate Nafolo
Tourist - St. Germain
Moby may have stolen his thunder on Play but St Germain, aka Ludovic Navarre, has been
... more
showcasing his futuristic nous and love of roots music by funking up the 4/4 electronic world with a little blues and gospel since the early 90s. After his F-Communications swan song, From Detroit To St Germain in 98, Navarre worked with a host of great session musicians for this, his major label debut. Tourist, his first album for the legendary Blue Note label, certainly justifies the continuing hype. A perfectly formed melodic journey of eclectic and idiosyncratic deep house that mixes blues, latin percussion and, of course, jazz without the noodle factor, Tourist is likely to generate as much head-nodding as dancing down your local groove emporium. The tracks range from the straight-ahead blues cut, "Rose Rouge" to the aptly titled "So Flute", an Afrobeat percussive shin-dig with a wondrous flute riff. "Latin Note", a funky latin stomper, reminiscent of Nuyorican Soul/Masters At Work is packed full of minor chords, smashing beats and off-the wall dynamics. Elsewhere, Navarre proves himself a master of suspense and beat-heavy poignancy, "Pont Des Arts" combines a carnival spirit with a monster piano groove, whereas "What You Think About" would have made Roy Ayers circa "Everybody Loves The Sunshine" very happy.Tourist is the kind of album that is put on at a fantastic, idyllic beach bar stereo at sunset and then constantly looped, a future classic. --Kate Nafolo
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The album Tourist is it seems, to me, underground and or experimental in its sound. With this album you can be a sound hearer hearing new songs played and heard for the first like you are one of the hippest people around. I would be happy if lots of us on Ciao got together and bought this album. Or we could download it off the internet either by paying for it as we have been told to on the news or steal it as we are expected to do by the ... ...are sung in English although it is a French album. In order they are Rose Rouge which in English means red rose. It has vocals, trumpet and drums. Montego Bay Spleen is in a dub style with drumming, guitar and organ but no vocals. So Flute is a manic flute. Land Of is a Blues organ and piano drums and saxophone. Latin Note is a piano xylophone and shaker and bongos. Sure Thing is a Blues guitar organ and dodo vocals. Pont Des Arts has an organ, shaker ...
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