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Long wekeend
Matinalsystem
Release
date: 1-11-08
Label: Chocolat Soul Records
We must recognize that the albums Matinalsystem have a strong personality. Already gave that impression highly recommended her debut, Housebound, but Long Weekend, his eagerly awaited new work confirms and leaves no loophole for doubt. The project has always been accompanied by the phrase "a new conception of the nu-jazz" (taken borrowed from Bugge Wesseltoft), and it is clear that responds to the truth because Matinalsystem (now converted into a trio), offers his own conception of the nu -jazz, a unique fusion of jazz and electronics that differs from any other contemporary proposal. Difficult to establish whether it involves the production (signed, again, by Gean), writing or how to record and mix the instrumental parts, but Long Weekend boasts a recognizable personality, and this, of course, not may be more positive. However, although still a continuum with respect to the first, precisely because of its unmistakable sound, this second album varies considerably, not stylistically, but because the tone here is uptempo.
In fact, this album could be described as a nu-jazz dance, and is part of the movement that seeks to restore to jazz to their place of origin, the dance hall, now that those places are called clubs, where the Jazz seemed to have been outlawed. But it refuses to disappear completely, and that is thanks to proposals like the Matinalsystem, where the club culture and jazz melodies are given a friendly hand to create a brilliant fusion that should enthuse equally to fans nu-jazz and those who enjoy dancing with a session dominated by electronic beats. Long Weekend starts with the outstanding Stewardess challenger, with the voice of Angels (remember that from Strawberry swan lake, in Venueconnection), an invitation to the dance that it is unlikely to be rejected, and that not only introduces the theme of the album (this trip by the sound world, the long view Week by clubs from around the world), but it sets the tone of the uptempo set.
The album also leaves us with two of the most convincing of recent years, the Rimex memorable, and Mr Hallelujah. Dj, a cut that will not leave indifferent anyone who listens and who is born with a vocation for rompepistas. But not everything is dancing, because Matinalsystem, by the hand of his producer Gean, knows how to create beautiful melodies (with the complicity, of course, and Alain Gorka, bassist and saxophonist repectivamente, the other two members of the trio), or to propose Environmental suggestive passages. Finally, you can not write about Long Weekend without mentioning the virtuosity of Gean to deal with the voice samples. In cuts such as Girl of Beijing or Follow moi makes an extremely effective use of fragments of spoken voice.
