''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".

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Limted to 250Yellow Vinyl

- 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.

 

- Special Edition- Limited Edition (150 Copies)- Colored Vinyl

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

 - Clear Vinyl

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