St Germain - Tourist
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Artist: St GermainEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-09-12
Music Label: Blue Note Records
Soundtracks:
- Rose Rouge
- Montego Bay Spleen
- So Flute
- Land Of...
- Latin Note
- Sure Thing
- Pont Des Arts
- La Goutte D'Or
- What You Think About...
Music reviews of Tourist
Music Review: some supreme grooves to be had here
Rating: 4 Stars
this is an -awesome- cd, my only problem with it is that it seems to kinda lose its inspiration towards the end. because the music is based on more "traditional" musical composition than sound design concepts (as most deep house/downtempo etc is) when you run out of ear-grabbing musical ideas theres not a whole lot left to maintain the intrigue. its because of this that things seem to drag towards the end, the initial vitality of the house/dub/downtempo breaks fused with jazz compositions having been worn out, so that the last couple cuts sound like the "same old" but less effective use of the formula that produced the amazing opener. anyway that somewhat minor and common gripe aside, this is really amazing stuff. ludovic's production skills are absolutely top-notch.. not in terms of studio trickery and sound-making, like BT or other producer legends of the electronic scene, but in terms of the perfection of his grooves. especially on "sure thing", one of the best tracks on this disc, where this ridiculously smooth and refined hip hop-inspired beat comes rolling out of the speakers like smoke, intertwined with a processed rhodes piano or something like that, dominating the whole stereo field and driving one of the best grooves i have ever heard from a live or electronic musician. "Rose Rouge" is the same sort of thing, all the pieces fit together so flawlessly in ludovic's bumping house beat that pretty much anything the soloists pull out on top of it would sound good.
not to discredit the live players, cuz the beats are not of course the only good thing about this stuff, the other half of st germain's unique fusion is the bouncing and energetic yet tastefully refined and sophisticated live music that he mixes into his sweet-ass beats. there is great playing from a small collection of live musicians, sax and trumpet taking leads on a number of tracks, a beautifully explorative guitar noodle over the 5 minutes of "montego bay spleen", the infamous barnstorming flute that opens "So Flute" (which then, i might add, somewhat decays into a largely uninteresting mere shadow of the bumpingly awesome house of Rose Rouge). everything about this disc seems to be exactly where it needs to be, yet doesnt feel forced or contrived, the way some supposedly "hip" progressive music does. highly recommended for anybody into the deep house/downtempo/nu jazz or general jazz scenes
Description of Tourist
EMI UK pressing. 2000 release from French DJ/producer, mixing jazz, blues, funk and soul. Includes the single 'Rose Rouge'.Smooth, downtempo grace flows through the veins of St. Germain, a.k.a. noted French composer-producer Ludovic Navarre. His record is a sensual flow of jazzy textures, Latin rhythms, and bass-ridden beats, hovering on the verge of techno, jazz, or experimental headphone music without tipping its hand too far in any direction. The result is irresistible: class with an edge. --Matthew Cooke
Techno and house music producer Ludovic Navarre is--along with Laurent Garnier, Air and DJ Cam--one of the biggest names in French electronic music of the past decade. His ability to imaginatively blend jazz elements with recent dance-music styles has been demonstrated before, but the seamless quality of this release is stunning. Compared to someone such as Amon Tobin, who obviously (although brilliantly) creates sampled collages, St Germain makes it pleasantly difficult to identify the boundary lines between "live" performance, programmed electronics, and sampled sound. Part of the credit must go to this album's musicians, including Pascal Ohsé, Eduoard Labor, Alexandre Destrez, and Idresse Diop (at least some of whom are francophone Africans making their mark in the post-colonialist European Afro-jazz scene). The CD's opening piece, "Rose Rouge," is centered on an edgy piano rhythm and a looped vocal fragment from jazz singer Marlena Shaw. The dub-inflected "Montego Bay Spleen" features Jamaican jazz guitarist Ernest Ranglin, who offers a clean, warm, neo-Wes Montgomery style filtered through his years as a session musician-architect of ska and reggae. And Edouard Labor's raspy flute tone on "So Flute," its role as much rhythmic as melodic, adds a Latin flavor to the mix. "Sure Thing," another high point of the release, is built around a vocal and guitar sample from blues guitarist John Lee Hooker, borrowed from the soundtrack to Dennis Hopper's film The Hot Spot and noteworthy on its own as probably the only time Hooker, Miles Davis, and Taj Mahal ever played together. Navarre's skill in selecting musicians, finding sample sources, and assembling cool, streamlined grooves adds up to quite an accomplishment. --Bob Bannister
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