- Digital
KUMA
Honey & Groat
Rocafort Records
- Cat No: ROCLP008
- Release: 2022-10-14
Track List
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1. KUMA - Medved Minor
04:52 -
2. KUMA - Niffty Teddy
03:51 -
3. KUMA - Knut the Great
05:05 -
4. KUMA - Feux-Gris
06:57 -
5. KUMA - Trois petits beusseukeu (feat. Shems Bendali & Zacharie Ksyk)
04:09 -
6. KUMA - Novaïa Zemilia
03:36 -
7. KUMA - Tale of the Two Tails
04:15 -
8. KUMA - Der Kuss (feat. Léo Chambet)
05:49 -
9. KUMA - Tardigrada (feat. Cyril Moulas)
03:01
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Ever since jazz took its bop and free turn, each generation solved this eternal equation: how do you reconcile serious music and simple pleasure? On each of these occasions opinion was divided between orthodoxy and hedonism.
Trained in the theoretical rigours of classical music and jazz, experts on their instruments, and brought up on hip-hop culture, techno and house club scenes, Matthieu Llodra and Arthur Donnot - composers of KUMA – go against the conventional rules because they like to challenge their musical boundaries.
"Honey & Groat" is just like a bear (KUMA in Japanese, emblem of the band): behind the sweetness and apparent placidity, plenty of power. The resulting urban groove is reminiscent of 70’s soul jazz with a contemporary sound: where instrumental talent meets pop simplicity.
Trained in the theoretical rigours of classical music and jazz, experts on their instruments, and brought up on hip-hop culture, techno and house club scenes, Matthieu Llodra and Arthur Donnot - composers of KUMA – go against the conventional rules because they like to challenge their musical boundaries.
"Honey & Groat" is just like a bear (KUMA in Japanese, emblem of the band): behind the sweetness and apparent placidity, plenty of power. The resulting urban groove is reminiscent of 70’s soul jazz with a contemporary sound: where instrumental talent meets pop simplicity.