SEGCD0801
1. Sempre
2. Domingo
3. Comboio
4. Family Album
5. Assim
6. Passa por Mim
7. Telefone
8. Encanto
9. Together
NEW RELEASE NEWS... NEW RELEASE NEWS...
ADRIANO ADEWALE GROUP SEMENTES (SEGCD0801)
Release date: 22 September 2008
Following their sell-out album launch show at Pizza Express Jazz Club, Soho on Sept 17th, Adriano Adewale Group now play Trestle Arts Base in St Albans on 9 October, the ArtsFest Stowe School in Buckingham on 14 October, the Quay Arts Newport on the Isle of Wight on 18 October, Pizza on the Park, London on 26 November, Norwich Arts Centre on 27 November and Salisbury Arts Centre on 6 December.
Visit www.adrianoadewale.co.uk for more details...
"Adewale gave an extraordinary performance."
Jazzwise - Pizza Express Launch Review"The vibe is exhilarating." **** Manchester Evening News
Throw aside preconceived musical prejudices, abandon all attempts to catalogue: a rich chemistry of cultural influences is at work in this keenly awaited debut album from the Adriano Adewale Group. Rooted in the musical traditions of Nigeria, Angola and Brazil and infused with contemporary European classical and jazz styles, SEMENTES is a colourful cocktail of infectiously funky rhythms and intimate soulful ballads peppered with free-jazz improvisation.
SEMENTES is the work of percussionist and composer Adriano Adewale who steps out of his side-man role with the likes of Antonio Forcione, Monica Vasconcelos and Modeste Hughes to front his own outstanding international ensemble .
Adriano says: “The sound of this album is a reflection of my surroundings, my experience of living in London, my childhood in Brazil, my friends. It is this moment of my life. My concerns with environmental issues, with faith, with African-Brazilian and European identity. It is a birth, a sonic acknowledgement of experiences of my own personal life which I believe I share with many other people. My music relates to ‘world music’ in the sense that it has been composed in different countries and is influenced by different traditions. There are also elements of the jazz art form on this album, mainly in the strong sense of freedom, which can only be fully understood and felt when the players are not trying to create the moment but when the music is allowed to grow out of their hands. That is when expression begins to happen and the crafting takes the music to a different level of interaction, where artists construct and de-construct free of pre-conceptions.”
SEMENTES features afro-Brazilian Adriano Adewale on percussion and vocals, Australian Nathan Riki Thomson on double bass and flutes; Kadialy Kouyate from Senegal on Kora and vocals and fellow Brazilian Marcelo Andrade on sax, flutes and rabeca. SEMENTES also features guest artists: Italian guitar maestro Antonio Forcione and international jazz artist Gilad Atzmon, who also produces.
“Adriano Adewale boasts an imposing collection of firepower yet deploys it with rare restraint.” The Times
Adriano Adewale: Percussion / Vocals
Kadialy Kouyate: Kora / Vocals
Marcelo Andrade: Sax / Flute/ Rabeca
Nathan Riki Thomson: Double Bass / Flute
Special Guests:Antonio Forcione: Acoustic Guitar
Gilad Atzmon: Clarinet/Accordion
Recorded at Eastcost Studios, London. January 2008 | Engineered by Philip Bagenal and Anna Tjan | Mixed by Philip Bagenal | Pre-production Adriano Adewale | Produced by Gilad Atzmon | Executive Producer Fiona Mason
All music composed by Adriano Adewale (with the exception of "Together" A. Adewale; N.R. Thomson; K. Kouyate; M. Andrade)
Original artwork by Clare Curtis www.clarecurtis.co.uk
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020 7732 4624 / 07986 235 855
helen@greendesk.demon.co.ukDistributed by Kudos Records Ltd www.kudosrecords.co.uk
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Adriano Adewale Quartet - 17/09/08 Pizza Express Jazz Club - REVIEW
Adriano Adewale’s Quartet blending jazz, African and Brazilian elements amazed the audience at Pizza Express on Wednesday, 17 September launching their debut album Sementes. Produced by Gilad Atzmon, this album is due for release on 22 September.
With Adewale as the percussionist, vocalist and composer, the band included Kadialy Kouyate playing on kora and vocals, Nathan Thomson as the double bass and flute player and Marcelo Andrade on the flute, saxophone and violin and guest performers, Gilad Atzmon and Antonio Forcione. The live performance offered a tantalising glimpse into Sementes.
Atmospheric and restorative, the music evoked natural sounds such as the rattling of snakes and the trickling of rain. As the frontman, Adewale gave an extraordinary performance. Fanatical about music, he sang and handled his instruments with rapture. The melancholy song ‘Family Album’ expresses the yearning for one’s homeland featuring intense singing by Adewale. Beginning calmly, ‘Domingo’ then explodes into a dramatic crescendo. ‘Passa por Mim’ is a Samba-influenced track played on recycled instruments. Throughout the performance, the quartet used the African percussion piano kalimba to intensify the authentic sound.
Following this superb debut gig, Adewale and his band will next perform at the Trestle Arts Base in St Albans on 9 October, the ArtsFest Stowe School in Buckingham on 14 October and the Quay Arts Newport on the Isle of Wight on 18 October.
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ADRIANO ADEWALE GROUP SEMENTES ALBUM REVIEWS
Is it “world” or is it “jazz”? The questions is posed by Brazilian percussionist Adriano Adewale, and his new group comprising Kadialy Kouyate, a kora player from Senegal, flautist and saxophonist Marcelo Andrade, from Brazil, and Nathan Thomson, who doubles on string bass and flute, from Australia. There are no theme-and-solos clichés, only creative originals, dipping into different traditions to make something eclectic, bright and distinctive. Kora and flute, sometimes twin flutes, combine beautifully, while the rhythms are positively primal.
Essentially, these are praise songs from black South America recast in contemporary form. Producer Gilad Atzmon guests on clarinet, and Adewale’s regular employer, guitarist Antonio Forcione, also drops by. The vibe is exhilarating.
**** Manchester Evening News, Alan Brownlee
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Moving to London in 2000, it didn’t take too long for the effusive Brazilian percussionist Adriano Adewale (formerly Pinto) to get noticed. His big break came when asked to join the international-touring band of world improve guitarist Antonio Forcione, who guests briefly on his debut CD. As with Forcione, Adewale’s quartet also has a diverse international make-up but the music tends to a less straightforward, easy-on-the-ear side of world improve than the Italian guitarist. The band is made up of fellow Brazilian saxophonist/flautist Marcelo Andrade, Australian bassist Nathan Thomson and Senegalese Kora player Kadialy Kouyate. Its roots are in South American folklore, African and Arabic traditions; Kouyate’s delicate kora playing is the outstanding flavour alongside Andrade’s folky jazz flute improves. But Adewale likes haunting, dark-toned modes for his themes and some quirky spoken word and Brazilian scat vocals add strength to his extremely versatile percussive palette. The CD has an intimate, low-key production courtesy of world-jazz reedsman Gilad Atzmon who, besides contributing clarinet, also demonstrates his lesser-known accordion skills. Sementes benefits from a loose, folky jazz feel and nuances that separate it from your average world groove recording.
*** Jazzwise Magazine, Selwyn Harris, September 2008
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Attempting to define or, more properly, to discourage others from arbitrarily and inaccurately labelling his music, Sao Paulo-born percussionist Adriano Adewale says: ‘My music relates to “world music” in the sense that it has been composed in different countries and is influenced by different traditions.
There are also elements of the jazz art form on this album, mainly in the strong sense of freedom, which can only be fully understood and felt when the players are not trying to create the moment but when the music is allowed to grow out of their hands.’
This statement perfectly describes the music on this, his band’s debut album (the title means ‘seeds’), which features Senegalese kora player Kadialy Kouyate, Brazilian saxophonist/flautist Marcelo Andrade, Australian bassist Nathan Thomson and guest appearances from producer Gilad Atzmon (clarinet, accordion) and guitarist Antonio Forcione (with whom Adewale frequently plays).
Adewale’s compositions are, unsurprisingly, strongly rhythmic in conception, frequently involve his own vocal contributions, and range from languorous lopes, over which Kouyate’s kora shimmers and scintillates, to more vigorous material in which Andrade’s horns or flute and the pleasingly abrasive clarinet of Atzmon are tellingly employed.
The guest presences, indeed, with their slightly more urgent feel, provide a useful complement to the more easy-going approach of the regular band members, and overall this is an album that, although superficially gentle on the ear, reveals more powerful felicities on repeated exposure.
Chris Parker – Vortex Jazz http://www.vortexjazz.co.uk/cd-reviews/sementes.html
