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Aura Safari / Jimi Tenor
Sensory Blending
Hell Yeah Recordings
- Cat No: HYR7280
- 2024-05-24
素晴らしい音楽とは、偶然の出会いや即興のクリエイティブ・セッションであることが多く、Hell Yeah はイタリアの集団オーラ・サファリとフィンランドのミュージシャン、ジミ・テナーのコラボレーション・アルバム『センソリー・ブレンディング』。ジャズ・ファンク・スタイルの瑞々しく豪華なフュージョンとなっている。
Track List
Great music is often about chance meetings and impromptu creative sessions and so it is that Hell Yeah proudly serves up Sensory Blending, a new collaborative album from Italian collective Aura Safari and Finnish musician Jimi Tenor. The nine-track record arrives on 26th April 2024 and is a lush and luxurious fusion of jazz-funk styles.
This glorious record came about after Tenor was playing a Hell Yeah party at Tangram in Perugia. Aura Safari were local and, in some free time the day before the gig, everyone jumped in the studio together. They had never met before but soon found plenty of free-flowing common ground and the result of that one-off session is now served up on this vibrant new album that brims with musicality, indelible melodies and subtly uplifting vibrations.
Tenor has toured the world and previously collaborated with the likes of Japanese master Calm. He is a psychedelic space-jazz-funk king, skilled musician, composer and producer who, since the mid-nineties, has released more than 25 albums and 45 EPs. Aura Safari is made up of bass, synth, guitar and keys players Lorenzo Francioli, Ruggero Bonucci, Nicola Pitassio Andrea Moretti, Lorenzo Lavoratori, Daniele Melloni and Nicholas Iammatteo, and they are label regulars who served up their sublime Island Dreams album here last year.
Says Jimi, who enjoyed his time in Perugia and adds that "the studio session was 100% efficient. I showed up and we started to play. Almost all that was made was material that we could use for the album. I love to work fast. Quick brushstrokes. Finish! I was amazed at how intuitively the Aura Safari guys could come up with new parts for songs. I mentioned some feeling or approach and they seemed to find it just like that.”
'Bodily Synesthesia' is the seductive opener with steamy sax notes and gentle grooves that are topped by aloof vocal whispers. 'Lunar Wind' is another slow and steamy mix of jazzy keys and soulful vocal hooks, 'Bewitched By The Sea' is a more tropical and percussive number with majestic melodies and 'My Bluebell' picks up the pace with jazz-funk grooves and hustling chords. 'Last Waltz In Perugia' has freeform sax lines soaring over meticulous drums that ebb and flow and 'Gimlet' brings a playful, samba-tinged rhythm and sunny flute leads straight from South America. There's a laidback, carefree mood to 'It's Too Easy To Love You' while 'Your Magic Touch' is a dancey number that exudes melodic joy, and 'Indigo' closes in dramatic fashion with a conversational sax that sticks long in the memory.
Sensory Blending is a seamless fusion of collaborative minds from Aura Safari and Jimi Tenor and it could well be performed live at some special select shows later in the year.
This glorious record came about after Tenor was playing a Hell Yeah party at Tangram in Perugia. Aura Safari were local and, in some free time the day before the gig, everyone jumped in the studio together. They had never met before but soon found plenty of free-flowing common ground and the result of that one-off session is now served up on this vibrant new album that brims with musicality, indelible melodies and subtly uplifting vibrations.
Tenor has toured the world and previously collaborated with the likes of Japanese master Calm. He is a psychedelic space-jazz-funk king, skilled musician, composer and producer who, since the mid-nineties, has released more than 25 albums and 45 EPs. Aura Safari is made up of bass, synth, guitar and keys players Lorenzo Francioli, Ruggero Bonucci, Nicola Pitassio Andrea Moretti, Lorenzo Lavoratori, Daniele Melloni and Nicholas Iammatteo, and they are label regulars who served up their sublime Island Dreams album here last year.
Says Jimi, who enjoyed his time in Perugia and adds that "the studio session was 100% efficient. I showed up and we started to play. Almost all that was made was material that we could use for the album. I love to work fast. Quick brushstrokes. Finish! I was amazed at how intuitively the Aura Safari guys could come up with new parts for songs. I mentioned some feeling or approach and they seemed to find it just like that.”
'Bodily Synesthesia' is the seductive opener with steamy sax notes and gentle grooves that are topped by aloof vocal whispers. 'Lunar Wind' is another slow and steamy mix of jazzy keys and soulful vocal hooks, 'Bewitched By The Sea' is a more tropical and percussive number with majestic melodies and 'My Bluebell' picks up the pace with jazz-funk grooves and hustling chords. 'Last Waltz In Perugia' has freeform sax lines soaring over meticulous drums that ebb and flow and 'Gimlet' brings a playful, samba-tinged rhythm and sunny flute leads straight from South America. There's a laidback, carefree mood to 'It's Too Easy To Love You' while 'Your Magic Touch' is a dancey number that exudes melodic joy, and 'Indigo' closes in dramatic fashion with a conversational sax that sticks long in the memory.
Sensory Blending is a seamless fusion of collaborative minds from Aura Safari and Jimi Tenor and it could well be performed live at some special select shows later in the year.
以下熱のこもったインフォメーションの翻訳です。(サイトウ)
この輝かしいレコードは、テナーがペルージャのタングラムでヘル・イェー・パーティーに出演した後に生まれた。オーラ・サファリは地元に住んでいて、ギグ前日の空き時間に、みんなでスタジオに飛び込んだ。彼らは初対面だったが、すぐに自由な共通点がたくさん見つかり、その一度きりのセッションの結果が、音楽性、忘れがたいメロディー、微妙に高揚するバイブレーションに溢れた、この活気に満ちたニュー・アルバムに結実した。
テナーは世界中をツアーし、日本の巨匠カームなどともコラボレートしてきた。彼はサイケデリックなスペース・ジャズ・ファンクの帝王であり、熟練したミュージシャン、作曲家、プロデューサーであり、90年代半ばから25枚以上のアルバムと45枚以上のEPをリリースしている。オーラ・サファリは、ベース、シンセ、ギター、鍵盤奏者のロレンツォ・フランチョーリ、ルッジェロ・ボヌッチ、ニコラ・ピタッシオ、アンドレア・モレッティ、ロレンツォ・ラヴォラトーリ、ダニエレ・メッローニ、ニコラス・イアマッテオで構成され、昨年ここで素晴らしいアルバム『アイランド・ドリームス』を発表したレーベルの常連だ。
スタジオ・セッションは100％効率的だった。スタジオ・セッションは100％効率的だった。ほとんどすべてがアルバムに使える素材だった。私は速く仕事をするのが好きなんだ。素早く筆を走らせる。仕上げる！オーラ・サファリのメンバーが直感的に曲の新しいパートを思いつくのには驚いた。私が何かフィーリングやアプローチを口にすると、彼らはすぐにそれを見つけてくれるようだった"
Bodily Synesthesia'は、蒸気のようなサックスの音と穏やかなグルーヴ、そして飄々としたヴォーカルのささやきがトッピングされた魅惑的なオープニング曲だ。Lunar Wind'はジャジーなキーとソウルフルなヴォーカル・フックがミックスされたスローでスチームなナンバーで、'Bewitched By The Sea'は雄大なメロディーを持つトロピカルでパーカッシブなナンバー、'My Bluebell'はジャズ・ファンクのグルーヴとハッスルするコードでペースを上げる。Last Waltz In Perugia」は、浮き沈みする綿密なドラムの上を自由形式のサックス・ラインが舞い上がり、「Gimlet」は、遊び心のあるサンバ調のリズムと南米直送の陽気なフルート・リードを聴かせる。It's Too Easy To Love You」はのんびりとした気楽なムードが漂い、「Your Magic Touch」はメロディックな喜びが滲み出るダンサブルなナンバーだ。
センソリー・ブレンディング』は、オーラ・サファリとジミ・テナーのコラボレーション・マインドのシームレスな融合であり、年明けの特別なライヴで披露されるかもしれない。