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The Motet - Music For Life

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The Motet - Music For Life
(Harmonized 2004)

the best of 2004 part 2Mark Donovan (guitare), Dominic Sayers et Jon Stewart (saxophones), Greg Raymond (clavier), Garrett Savers (basse) et Scott Messersmith (percussions) forment autour de Dave Watts (batterie, et composition de 3/4 des titres!) The Motet, un jamband afro-beat world-jam-funk jazz-fusion finalement très comptemporain, qui jouent au delà de ces étiquettes seventies (jazz-fusion) ou années 90 (jam band).
Ce n'est pas la première fois que nous évoquons ce groupe (en dec 2002, fév 2003 et septembre 2003 - NDLR) mais cette fois ils atteignent notre top 20 de l'année, avec un nouvel album, "Music For Life" sorti sur le label Harmonized Records (label du distributeur indé Homegrown Music Network), sous haute influence Fela et revendiqué comme tel. "Encore un disque d'afrobeat? mais je ne veux pas acheter que de l'afrobeat!", en référence aux Antibalas, Fela & Koloko élus dans nos disques "Reggae dub and world grooves" de 2004... "Oui mais non", vous répondrais-je. Car si l'esprit de Fela est ce qui inspire The Motet sur tout cet opus, on croit vraiment sur certains passages écouter un album de jazz fusion 70's, entre du Herbie Hancock et du Weather Report, puis ailleurs le groove se fait afro-cubain, funk, rock, puis à nouveau jazz, puis ça décolle en disco-funk... Ah mais... Non ça n'est pas du jazz-fusion alors... Ce n'est pas exactement ce qu'on appelle un jamband non plus? Non. C'est un groupe qui évolue et ne se contente pas de se nicher là où on l'attend, comme tous nos artistes de varièt' par exemple.

links :
Download MP3 "Cheap Shit" extrait de "Music For life"
Télécharger un concert en MP3 (Fox Theater - Boulder, CO 04/09/2004)
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