''Sulla Rotta Dei Venti'' (On the Route of the Winds) is the brand-new
album of Italian ska-jazz maestros North East Ska*Jazz Orchestra
(NESJO). A collection of eleven own-penned original tracks, written and
composed between 2020 and 2023, that frames a new chapter in the
ten-year career of the band. In this record, NESJO bravely explores
other worlds through music, which, as we know, is always also an inner
quest. It is at the same time an effort to place their own music at the
centre of the time and space in which they live, even at the cost of
going beyond the stylistic limits linked to the band's chosen musical
genre. Although, these new 11 cuts are built around rhythms that are
undeniably of Jamaican origin, melodies are tainted with music from
other traditions and sometimes also feature pop elements. Somehow, in
this new album, NESJO has chosen to let the jazz big-band out of the
orchestra pit and to mix with the popular sound of the street. Through
the tracks of the record, NESJO creates mixed ensembles with the use of
instruments such as strings, accordion, flute, clarinet, horn, tuba…
together with the band's regular branding of sax, trumpets and
trombones. Another novelty of this work is that the non-instrumental
tracks are sung in Italian by the three singers Freddy Frenzy, Michela
Grena and Rosa Mussin. And the musical journey takes us to exotic but at
the same time very close sounds in 21st century Europe: Balkan (“Piazza
Della Liberta”, “CiganSka #1”), Arabic (“Petrolio”), African (“Nimi
Muzima”), Italian (“Roma Tokyo Paris”), and ska (“Donna Di Chi”) and a
sophisticated ska-jazz suite (“Sulla Rotta Dei Venti”). The opening
words of the first track of the album give us a glimpse of the feeling
of vindication, brotherhood and hope contained in this set of songs:
"Where is the empathy for those in difficulty / in the streets of
Trieste that shout with vitality / indifference hearts of stone / dense
black Balkan agony".
- Limited to 250- Red Vinyl
Brand new 7th album by Denmark's soulful rocksteady combo.
'Leave Me Here To My Quixotic Moods' contains eleven new opriginal
songs in the band's own mix of ska, reggae, soul and rocksteady
Storm over the Mainland“ ist das abwechslungsreichste Album der Band mit
anspruchsvollem Songwriting, eingängigen Refrains und einem perfekt
abgestimmten „Kick-Ass“-Sound.
Zehn Jahre nach dem letzten Album "Algo Especial" ist die neunköpfigen
Bandeiten-Besetzung aus Castellon mit elf Songs zurück. Der wunderbare
Mix aus Ska, Rocksteady und Soul zollt mit Orgel und reichlich Gebläse
der traditionsreichen Musik Jamaicas - Ska, Reggae und Rocksteady im
angenehm analogen Klangbild. Tolle Vintage Jamaican Sounds-Mischung aus
eigenen Kompositionen und charmant inszenierten Coverversionen,
instrumental und mit Gesang. *Liquidator