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Nguyen Le's Exoticism

zeriab sufi | sitaresque@hotmail.com | 08/09/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The latest: Homescape

In Homescape Nguyen Le along with Dhafer Youssef and Paolo Fresu were able to create a celestial atmospheric music which is bouncing between electroambient and classical jazz walks.

The tracks are:





Stranieri:

This track with its opening interlude introduces you into the music cocktail that you are going to taste just from one cup. The rhythm is usually slow with an ascending tempo to follow the path of the beat.



Byzance:

This anthem is a funk jazz-taqsim with Dhafer's vocals jumping between the foreground and the background and creating in the same time a mystical scent.



Muqqam:

As the track title speaks, but this is more like a low-voltage nahwand! With echoing reverbs to give the listeners the feeling of depth and warmness and in the same time urging to increase the volume!



Mali Iwa:

Nguyen's genius touches floating, whirling, looping and fleeing into sacred chambers. The rhythm is again 1930's jazz without form but in the same time melodic and improvising.



Zafaran:

I guess the yellow impression of the CD cover comes from this yellowish-zafaran feeling. The mood is purely eastern joy mixed with electronic celebrations and can show the ululating instruments with the vocals changing roles so the listeners will find himself/ herself sinking into moody tone. Joy.



Domus De Janas:

Here he is Paolo Fresu giving birth for the angels of brass section hallucinations. I like it when he makes the blowing sounding as shamanic incantation!



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Consistent creativity

M. Beeman | Toledo, OH USA | 09/03/2007

(4 out of 5 stars)

"I happened across some of Nguyen Le's work years ago while scouring the bins for something different. I have, since then, followed and enjoyed his work although it has seen limited distribution in U.S. and it occasionally takes months to accept delivery. For me, it is worth the wait. This music is consistently creative and exhibits a quintessential mix of styles, cultures and compositional maturity. Very clean recording. A great addition to any international jazz collection."