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Stéphane Galland – Stéphane Galland & The Rhythm Hunters (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:35 minutes | 954 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Challenge Records
Hunting for rhythm, as if our lives depended on it, as if, without rhythm, we’d starve to death. Can body and soul live without rhythm? Seizing its different forms, dissecting it, ingesting it, digesting it, could very well be akin to the Rhythm Hunters’ creative process. What are the rhythmic principles that lead us to develop its polyphonic, groovy and trance-like aspects (Africa), or mathematically complex ones (India), or irregular pulsations that transcend asperities (Balkans), among others? To go on a rhythm hunt, why not explore all these places, appreciate the infinite diversity of rhythms and, back home, try to understand and experiment with enriching your own rhythmic vocabulary with the basic principles underlying each musical tradition. What can these principles contribute if you transcend borders and begin to adapt your musical knowledge and experience to the new ramifications of the rhythm you’ve just discovered? The music of The Rhythm Hunters is one of the answers.
A few years ago, the musicians in this band and I began a specific practice on unusual mixes of rhythmic ideas, inspired by traditions from various parts of the world, with the intention of integrating them until they became a personal vocabulary and means of expression. The result is on this album.
Stéphane Galland & The Rhythm Hunters by Stephane Galland & The Rhythm Hunters, released 26 April 2024, includes the following tracks: “Positivv “, “Artemis” and more.
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Stéphane Galland – Stéphane Galland & (the mystery of) Kem (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 56:01 minutes | 1,22 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Outnote Records
New album entitled “(the mystery of) KEM” by jazzman and Belgian drummer Stéphane Galland. An album in which he visits the rhythmical roots where all the musical traditions that he has rubbed together and integrated into his own language converge. For this journey, Stéphane Galland is surrounded by daring and talented young musicians: Sylvain Debaisieux (sax), Bram De Looze (piano), Federico Stocchi (bass) and invites one of the most prominent Carnatic Flute player in the world from South India, Ravi Kulur (Ravi Shakar, Anoushka Shankar,…).
The album also features Ibrahim Maalouf as a (very) special guest.
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Aka Moon, Fabrizio Cassol, Michel Hatzigeorgiou, Stéphane Galland – Now (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 51:54 minutes | 606 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Outhere
Since the group was founded 25 years ago, the career of Aka Moon has been punctuated by a myriad of original musical encounters. After their initiatory journey with the Aka Pygmies in 1992, an unappeased desire has always nourished the research of the three accomplices: the wish to share the knowledge, experience and secrets of other musicians from all backgrounds. Today, the necessity of the original trio is again expressed in NOW with the exceptional playing quality that has been acquired and refned over the course of numerous concerts. For although Aka Moon was undeniably born with a unique sound, the group has always made it evolve, absorbing, in particular, rhythms from the Orient, Africa or India.
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