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The group "Orange Blossom" is the vision of Carlos Robles Arenas, a Mexican composer based in France who has drawn from the Turkish, Egyptian, Malian, Senegalese and Cuban musical tradition, with vocals sung in Arabic, Persian and Portuguese to offer to the world a fourth album of current music, limpid and mysterious at the same time. Attractive like a siren's song, these thirteen new pieces over the past ten years take us between a wild dance floor and a meditation room without any contradiction. If beauty had a soundtrack, there would be songs from Orange Blossom in it.

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*Zenzile - Remixed*

This compilation is the third of a tryptic dedicated to the old french dub scene.
After "High Tone" and "Kaly Live Dub", here comes "Zenzile remixed".
"Zenzile" is one of the most popular french dub band of all time.
This compilation is the creme of their entire discography remixed by the most talented Dub producers of the new generation

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Vincent Peirani - Living Being II “Night Walker”​

Vincent Peirani accordion / accordina / voice
Émile Parisien soprano saxophone
Tony Paeleman fender rhodes
Julien Herné bass / electric guitar
Yoann Serra drums

After the triumph of Living Being, Vincent Peirani presents an exhilarating Living Being II – Night Walker, the second album by his group of the same name, composed of Émile Parisien, saxophone, Tony Paeleman, keyboards, Julien Herné, electric bass and guitars, and Yoann Serra, drums. With a combination of rock (note the reference in the numbering to Led Zeppelin, whose Stairway to Heaven is included here), chanson, pop and Western written music, the group is what the accordionist calls a “Chamber Rock Music Orchestra”.

The writing, instrumentation and performance are excellent, and the quintet took particular care over the sound of the album (recorded in Brussels in March 2017 in just four days). Combining organic breath (accordion, saxophone) with outbursts of electric sound, the tracks present delicate, refined atmospheres or ambiences, grooves with contemporary oriental touches, and bold revivals (from the Baroque composer Henry Purcell to Led Zeppelin). The pieces are always powerfully evocative and together they form an expressive arch, with an extraordinary narrative content. In other words, this is another gem from the enfant terrible of the twenty-first century accordion.

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