Soul Jazz Records Presents - 90 Degrees of Shade - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Romancillo Infantile 2. I. Allegro Moderato 3. II. Minuetto 4. III. Pavana Triste 5. IV. Final 6. Tatiana 7. Andreina 8. Natalia 9. Yacambú 10. Pasillo (Nostalgia Bogotana) 11. Danza (Giessel Daniela) 12. Bambuco 13. Porro 14. I. Esordio 15. II. Scherzo 16. III. Canto 17. IV. Finale 18. Traditional Korean Folk Song Unos 500 Años

Soul Jazz Records new album 90 Degrees of Shade features the music of the Caribbean - Mambo, Calypso, Mento, Merengue, Latin Jazz and much more the music of Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and more all feature in this lightning journey through the many island sounds. This is the sound of independence, righteous and hot jump-up sounds from the 1950's and 60's, an exciting period of endless new musical styles that would travel across the world - Mento, the Jamaican precursor to Reggae; Mambos and Descargas from Cuba, Dominican Merengue, Haitian Compas - it's all here! This album coincides with the of Soul Jazz Records massive new deluxe large hardback book 90 Degrees of Shade 100 Years of Photography in the Caribbean (with foreword by Paul Gilroy) featuring hundreds of fascinating and unique photographs spanning one hundred years of Caribbean history. The new album comes as a deluxe two-CD pack complete with large outside booklet, packed full of info and original artwork. There are also two limited edition separate heavyweight double LP vinyl editions, each one housed in gatefold sleeves complete with insert, full text and free download code. Also comes as a worldwide digital .

Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882-1973) approached the piano with a sense of expressive freedom, avoiding the conventions of pure virtuosity and preferring a more intimate and reflective language. His piano pieces range from lyrical miniatures to more complex works, in which influences can be recognized from Italian early music to the modernity of Debussy, Casella, Stravinsky and Scriabin. Alessandro Riccardi has programmed a sequence of pieces written during the 1900s and 1910s. They evoke a creative laboratory, where harmonic experimentation and the search for new expressive forms intertwine with a deep respect for the past. From 1905, the 6 Morceaux represent the first expression of Malipiero's compositional personality, where modal influences intersect with late 19th-century trends.Published in 1910, the Tre danze antiche represent Malipiero the assiduous antiquarian, the reviver and transcriber of his 17th-century forebears such as Monteverdi and Gabrieli. The quartet of Preludi autunnali were composed in Venice in September 1914 and foreshadow a period of 'perpetual tragedy' in the composer's music caused by the outbreak of World War I. As Malipiero wrote in 1952 InchTheir melancholy is perhaps the effect of the war just begun and not yet felt.InchThose effects are further amplified in Maschere che passano from 1918, a 10-minute quintet of oblique sketches, presenting high contrasts mysterious, violent, distant, Malipiero at his most late-Debussyan. In 1920 he then wrote a heartfelt homage to Debussy, followed by 'Three Homages', which undercut the solemnity of their title by being dedicated successively to a parrot, an elephant and 'an idiot'. Throughout the album, marking Alessandro Riccardi's debut on Piano Classics, the piano becomes an instrument for personal introspection and sonic exploration, while maintaining a strong connection to Italian tradition and,