Tales From The Earth
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or to order the CD, please visit www.melodia.com
NEW CD RELEASE, featuring:
Mark Weinstein, concert, alto and bass flutes
Omar Sosa, vibraphone, marimba, piano, percussion
Jean Paul Bourelly, guitar
Aly Keita, balafon
Marque Gilmore, drums
Stan Michalak, bass
Aho Luc Nicaise, lead vocals, percussion
Mathias Agbokou, vocals, percussion
Tales From The Earth
Stan Michalak, bass
Aho Luc Nicaise, lead vocals, percussion
Mathias Agbokou, vocals, percussion
Tales From The Earth
A thoroughly cosmopolitan outlook rooted in the rhythmic intensity and improvisatory, call-and-response spirit of Africa writ large. Artists of Cuban, Haitian, West African (Bénin, Ivory Coast), European, African American and Jewish American heritage, entering a Berlin studio for two days of intensive recording, without music or a predetermined conception, only a shared commitment to the communal, celebratory character that embodies the expressive riches of Mother Africa.
Flautist Mark Weinstein’s groundbreaking Cuban Roots (1967) melded the influences of Mingus, Machito, Puente, Tjader, and Palmieri, carried forward into the present with his recent collaborations, Cuban Roots Revisited, Algo Más, and now, Tales from the Earth. Weaving a musical lineage of a thousand strands, if Tales from the Earth recalls something of the creative spirit of M’Boom, the inventive all-percussion octet founded by Max Roach in 1970, it captures the global ecumenical spirit of the present.
Accordingly, Tales from the Earth resounds with the Afro-Cuban traditions of Omar Sosa—best known as a pianist and composer, but here primarily on marimba and vibraphone, which Sosa studied in Cuba’s conservatories before switching to piano. It features the eclectic guitar talents of Jean Paul Bourelly (Miles Davis, Roy Haynes, Elvin Jones, Pharoah Sanders, Cassandra Wilson); the resonant balafon of Aly Keita’s Ivory Coast; the insistent drum ‘n’ bass sensibilities of Stockholm-based Marque Gilmore (Roy Ayers, Steve Coleman, Graham Haynes, Toumani Diabate, Vernon Reid, Joe Zawinul, MeShell Ndegeocello, Susheela Ramen, Nitin Sawhney, Talvin Singh); the subtlety of acoustic bassist Stan Michalak; the vocal and percussive vitality of Aho Luc Nicaise and Mathias Agbokou; and the fresh, ever-surprising turns of phrase that each artist invests in this pioneering project.
Tales from the Earth weaves a musical narrative that can be read as a journey to the source of the human spirit—with all the playfulness, celebration, contemplation, historical awareness, compassion, reverence, and gratitude manifest in a life consciously lived.
Co-produced by Mark Weinstein, Omar Sosa, and Jean Paul Bourelly, Tales from the Earth embraces the radical challenge laid down by Monk long ago: “Jazz is freedom, so I play music. If I ever play the same thing twice, I’ll stop making music.” This ensemble never plays the same thing twice, and Tales from the Earth expresses a revelatory message, deeply grounded in tradition, yet thoroughly contemporary and innovative in realization, an expression of human freedom, and a celebration of the Diaspora, alive in our times.
-Michael Stone
 Tales From The Earth Invocation
Featuring Mark Weinstein, bass and concert flutes
Omar Sosa, vibraphone
Marque Gilmore, drums
Aly Keita, balafon
Photo by Marco Zelmer
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 Tales From The Earth Forest Journey
Featuring Mark Weinstein, bass, alto, and concert flutes
Omar Sosa, vibraphone, marimba
Marque Gilmore, drums
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 Tales From The Earth Children At Play
Featuring Mark Weinstein, concert flute
Omar Sosa, vibraphone, marimba
Aly Keita, balafon
Marque Gilmore, drums
Photo by Christopher Toothman
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 Tales From The Earth Flirtation
Featuring Mark Weinstein, concert flute
Omar Sosa, marimba, vibraphone
Aly Keita, balafon
Marque Gilmore, drums
Photo by Marco Zelmer
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Upcoming Omar Sosa U.S. Tour Schedule Fall 2009
October 17 Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
October 18 Highline Ballroom, New York, NY October 21 Earshot Jazz / The Triple Door, Seattle, WA October 22 SFJAZZ / Herbst Theatre, San Francisco, CA Omar Sosa Afreecanos Quartet, featuring
Childo Tomas, electric bass, kalimba, vocals
Marque Gilmore, drums, electronics
Mola Sylla, vocals, m’bira, xalam, kongoman
For concert details, please visit www.melodia.com
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 Oda Africana
A work by Omar Sosa
for combined Orchestra
and Jazz Quintet
Thursday, September 17
Mercat de Música Viva de Vic
Plaça Major de Vic, SPAIN
Featuring
Jove Orquesta Athenea
Conducted by Lluís Caballería
Omar Sosa, piano
Mola Sylla (Senegal), vocals
Childo Tomas (Mozambique), bass
Leandro Saint-Hill (Cuba), saxophones
Marcos Ilukán (Cuba), percussion
Photo by Aitor Echeverría |
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Omar Sosa International Tour Schedule Fall 2009 ALBACETE TOUR
October 29 Casa de la Cultura, Caudete, SPAIN
October 30 Teatro Regio, Almansa, SPAIN
October 31 Salón de Actos, Higueruela, SPAIN
November 1 Centro Social, Casas Ibañez, SPAIN
“KIND OF BLUE” TRIBUTE, with special guest Jerry Gonzalez
and featuring Peter Apfelbaum, Dafnis Prieto, Leandro Saint-Hill, Childo Tomas
November 6 Auditori, Barcelona, SPAIN
EAST AFRICA TOUR
Featuring Childo Tomas and Mola Sylla
November 25 Centre Culturel Albert Camus, Antananarivo, MADAGASCAR
November 27 Centre Culturel Francais, Windhoëk, NAMIBIA
December 2 Alliance Francaise de Lusaka, Lusaka, ZAMBIA
December 4 Jardins de l’Alliance Francaise, Addis Abada, ETHIOPIA
December 7 Centre Culturel Francais, Khartoum, SUDAN
December 9 Centre Culturel Francais, Bujumbura, BURUNDI
December 12 Alliance Francaise, Nairobi, KENYA
December 16 Centre Culturel Francais Charles Baudelaire, MAURITIUS
December 18 Saint Denis, RÉUNION
For concert details, please visit www.melodia.com
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