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Greyboy - Soul Mosaic - A Case Study in Beats, Soul and Funk

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Greyboy - "Soul Mosaic - A Case Study in Beats, Soul and Funk"
(Ubiquity, 2004)

Depuis 10 ans Greyboy nous distille ses bonnes vibes californiennes avec parcimonie et un goût certain. Son premier album "Freestylin", petite perle d'acid-jazz devenue culte et rééditée cette année date en effet de 1994, et si on ne peut que célébrer la discographie des Greyboy Allstars, qu'il aida à se former et à produire mais dont il ne faisait pas partie (3 albums entre 1994 et 1999), ses albums personnels de 1995 ("Land of the Lost" instrus hip-hop-jazz) et de 2001 ("Mastered the Art") ne nous laissairent pas de souvenir impérissable, si ce n'est celui d'une certaine classe dans l'art de ne pas en faire trop.
Ce quatrième album (en dix ans donc) prouve la validité de cet adage, puisqu'après avoir collaboré avec de nombreux et talentueux activistes du groove, californiens ou non, tels la chanteuse Bart Davenport, les scratcheur fous D-Styles et Ricci Rucker, la star montante du new funk Sharon Jones, le guitariste Bing Ji Ling ou le hollandais suractif Quantic, Greyboy a "nettoyé" seul les pistes de ses morceaux pour n'en garder qu'une version finale minimale. Il appelle ça "less is more". Quand le disque en résultant brille de tous feux funk, soul et hip hop downtempo, nous ne pouvons qu'approuver à bras ouvert... à bribe abbatue... à tire-larigaud... bon, bref, vous voyez ce que je veux dire.

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[ubiquityrecords.com] Écoutez des extraits mp3 + download Greyboy's special guest appearance on Power 106's Friday Night Flavas with Mr. Choc (Power 106), Truly ODd (Heavyweights), J-Rocc (Beat Junkies) and C-Minus (Korn).
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