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The Electric Flag "A Long Time Coming"
Another great selection. Do you have any others ??
John Hiatt - Bring the Family [SACD] (1987)
A product of the Parisian dance scene, though Tunisian by birth, Smadj (a.k.a. Jean-Pierre Smadja) has successfully blended his roots with his musical tastes to combine North African and electronic music with Latin, jazz, and oriental sounds. To complement his unique vision, he drew on the talents of some of the most exciting musicians currently recording outside the mainstream of contemporary music: Talvin Singh, Amit Chatterjee, Mehdi Haddab, DuOud, and Rokia Traore. "Take It And Drive" is a very personal vision, but it features a global cast, and its blend of European electronica and influence relies heavily on Africa and beyond. "A digital Renaissance man, Smadj, a sort of African Brian Eno, has created one of the most outstanding debuts in recent years" - Daily Telegraph, UK.
Paris-based Tunisian musician Smadj pilots a musical landscape with an oud as his steering wheel and a laptop loaded with his sampled creations as his global positioning system. The gasoline in this musical time travel machine is improvisation, and he always keeps one eye in the rear view mirror to find out where to go next...“All the electronics on the album are the fruit of live improvisation,” explains Smadj, whose birth name is Jean-Pierre Smadja. “I take my personal library of samples and sounds and play them live. I spent three years exploring this and found that you can play the laptop just like any other instrument.”All of the tracks on Take It and Drive originated as live performances, either on stage or in Smadj’s home studio. “It is not like the last generation of electronic music where you sequence different sections and re-arrange it to compose the song,” says Smadj. “Now it is improvised live.”..http://www.rockpaperscissors.biz/index.cfm/fuseaction/current.press_release/project_id/268.cfm
