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Pierre Bensusan

Title: Spices

Label: Dadgad Music

Cat No:DM1005
Format:CD

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• Pierre Bensusan's 1988 release, ‘Spices’, which reached the US Jazz Charts, is his first album featuring the Pierre Bensusan Ensemble. The album showcases Pierre's fluid orchestral sound and amazing technique, and combines gorgeous guitar solos with vivid ensemble pieces.

• The tunes range from light swinging Jazz to Latin, from Baroque to Middle Eastern, Funk and Vocal Tracks. Taste the spices of Pierre Bensusan, a rich blend of melodies and moods, as original as it is irresistible.

• Personnel : Pierre Bensusan: electro-acoustic guitar, electric guitar, vocals; Denis Benharrosh: percussion, congas, bongos, darabuka, udu, timbales; Emmanuel Binet: electric bass, fretless bass; Didier Malherbe: soprano & tenor saxophone sax, bamboo flute; Franck Sitbon: piano, keyboards; Mico Nissim: piano, keyboards; Georges Al Safi: violon; Doatea Bensusan: vocals; & Shandy Sinnamon: vocals.

• "Pierre, what you do with folk music, and how you transcend all these various idioms to bring them into to the language spoken today is very important, don't stop!" - Pete Seeger

Track Listing for Spices
1. Mille vallées (Thousand Valleys)
2. La femme cambrée (The Arched Back Woman)
3. Agadiramadan
4. Le bateau fiction (The Imaginary Boat)
5. Alimatou
6. Presqu'île (Peninsula)
7. La cour intérieure (The Courtyard)
8. The Last Pint
9. Les voiles catalanes
10. Montsegur
11. Four A.M. (Quatre heures du matin)

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