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LOUCA, MAURICE
Elephantine

Label : Sub Rosa
Year : 2019
Format : LP
Style : Experimental
Availability : In stock

Price : 16.60 € - BUY
Description :On Elephantine, his new album released exclusively on Rosa as vinyl LP, Cairo-based Maurice Louca guides a 12-piece ensemble through a 38-minute masterwork that might best be described as panoramic. Elements of free improvisation, Sun Ra's cosmic jazz, gorgeous Arabic melody, trancelike African and Yemeni music and minimalism meet in his wholly unique compositional vision. Louca also makes vital contributions on guitar and piano, and inspires stirring performances from a global lineup.

RIYL: Sun City Girls, 70s Miles Davis, Don Cherry, Alice Coltrane, Tortoise

One of the most gifted, prolific and adventurous figures on Egypt's thriving experimental arts scene, Louca has in recent years garnered a global reputation through two previous solo albums and an expanding, evolving lineup of genre-defying collaborations. The Wire called his 2014 sophomore solo effort, Salute the Parrot, 'remarkable music-dense, driven and splashed with colour'. In 2017, the self-titled debut by Lekhfa, the trio of Louca and vocalists Maryam Saleh and Tamer Abu Ghazaleh, was praised as an 'edgy triumph' in The Guardian and picked by BBC Radio 3's Late Junction as one of the very best 12 albums of 2017.

For Louca, 36, Elephantine serves as both the pinnacle of his wide-ranging experience and a bold next step in his development as a composer, arranger and bandleader. The celebrated Egyptian visual artist Maha Maamoun has created the album cover art, following her contribution to Salute the Parrot. 'There was a blessed thing about the process of making this record', Louca says of the sessions, held last year in Stockholm and featuring the leader on guitar and piano. The dynamic between us musically but also as people ...What these musicians delivered was really more than I could ask for, Everyone played their hearts out on this record.'

The music-from its pensive lulls through its stretches of hard-grooving hypnosis and moments of avant-jazz catharsis-testifies to that rapport. Best absorbed as a continuous performance, Elephantine's six individually named tracks nonetheless present striking self-contained landscapes. 'The Leper' entrances through a deft use of repetition that Louca gleaned from cosmic jazz, African and Yemeni music and other transcendental modal traditions. (Those who've followed Louca's work might be reminded of the Dwarfs of East Agouza, his mesmeric unit with Shalabi and Sun City Girls' Alan Bishop.)

'Laika' manages to evoke the minimalists, though on the combustible terms of '60s and '70s free jazz; 'One More for the Gutter', on which Louca ingeniously pits one half of his ensemble against the other, albeit in a synergistic way, mines similarly fiery terrain. 'The Palm of a Ghost distills the band to a Cairo-rooted core, featuring stirring spontaneous melodies from oud player Natik Awayez, violinist Ayman Asfour and vocalist Nadah El Shazly. The album's title track follows, and it too blurs the border between composition and improvisation with gorgeously atmospheric results. 'Al Khawaga', with its colossal ensemble riffs, beautifully dirty swing and impassioned blowing, is an ideal finale.

Composed, arranged and produced by Maurice Louca

Tommaso Cappellato (Drums/Percussions) / Ozun Usta (Drums/Percussions) / Elsa Bergman (Bass) / Pasquale Mirra (Vibraphone) / Piero Bittolo (Baritone Sax/Alto Sax/Bass Flute) / Anna Högberg (Alto Sax) / Rasmus Kjærgård Lund (Tuba) / Isak Hedtjärn (Clarinet/Bass Clarinet) / Nadah El Shazly (Vocals)/ Natik Awayez (Oud) / Ayman Asfour (Violin) / Maurice Louca (Guitar/Piano)

Executive producer: Sarah El Miniawy

Titles :01. The Leper
02. Laika
03. One More for the Gutter
04. The Palm of a Ghost
05. Elephantine
06. Al Khawaga

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