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Avishai Cohen
After the Big Rain
Genres: International Music, Jazz, Pop

Track Listings (8) - Disc #1
1. After the Big Rain
2. Parto Forte
3. Gbede Temin - Avishai Cohen, Loueke, Lionel
4. Meditation on Two Chords - Avishai Cohen, Lindner, Jason
5. Afterthoughts (Mozartine)
6. Miryama
7. African Daisy (La Suite African)
8. After the Big Rain (Epilogue)

CD Details

All Artists: Avishai Cohen
Title: After the Big Rain
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Anzic Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2007
Re-Release Date: 7/17/2007
Genres: International Music, Jazz, Pop
Styles: Jazz Fusion, Modern Postbebop, Bebop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 616892887928, 896434001047

Synopsis

Product Description

Alternately moody and joyous, richly atmospheric yet beat-driven, the album features trumpet player Avishai Cohen with some of his most esteemed peers: Lionel Loueke on guitar and vocals, Jason Lindner on keyboards, Omer Avital on bass and Daniel Freedman on drums and percussion. The music is texturally rich, full of heated improvisation, group interplay and the kind of funky, internationalist flavor for which Avishai has become known.

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CD Reviews

"After the Big Rain" makes quite a splash

James Lamperetta | Upstate, NY | 09/15/2007

(4 out of 5 stars)

"4.5 Stars

While being enveloped by trumpeter Avishai Cohen's "After the Big Rain" a recurring point of reference which springs to mind is "Bitches Brew" and "In A Silent Way" era Miles Davis.

However, beyond the luxurious wash of Jason Lindner's Fender Rhodes keyboards and Cohen's atmospheric musings, Lionel Loueke's nylon-string guitar and vocals help to move this project into a realm of remarkable transcendence.

Miles' tunes at the time were more about exploring colors and moods. Here compositions by Cohen, Lindner, and Loueke incorporate a distinct world-music flavor and stand out for being as strong and fully realized as the individual and ensemble playing.

"African Daisy (La Suite African)" and "Parto Forte" are cross-continental melting pots of world music meets jazz. Lindner's "Meditation on Two Chords" is a cooled-out space-rock excursion over which Cohen's distorted horn soars.

The mid-disc classically tinged "Afterthoughts (Mozartine)" and the haunting Loueke vocal showcase "Miryama," form an engaging oasis of introspection and calm.

Bookended by the title track and its epilogue, the experience of "After The Big Rain" is brought full-cycle.

This is highly recommended listening.

"

STELLAR TRAVELLING STELLAR PERFORMANCE

K. Prousalis | drama GREECE | 04/16/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"NOT MUCH TO SAY cause music speaks very very very emotionally and powerfully at its utmost .STELLAR PERFORMANCE from a very intelligent artist who i think HAS THE NEED to explore his soul.A MARVELOUS travelling with a strong impact of peaceful exploration through everybodys soul. SUPERB JAZZ FROM AVISHAI COHEN AND ONE OF THE BEST RECORDINGS OF THIS DECADE ."