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Frederic Galliano has such a passion for the music, people, places and traditions of Africa that he was inspired to do just that and the result is an artist album. If the single ‘Alla Cassi Magni’ and the other three tracks that I’ve heard from the album sampler are anything to go by then this sounds to be a fantastic release.
The single is made for the dance floor with a funky, deep bass line and skipping kick drums. The melody is quirky and helps to carry the track but it’s the African vocals and background chants that make this sound really different. On the sampler the music differed slightly, it was a bit deeper and had more of a nu-jazz feel than the dance floor orientated single. The diversity of instruments and rhythms between the tracks is great, each track has a different sound but it all sounds like Africa, and I really enjoyed the common theme.
The sound has been described as afro-tech, not that Galliano would care, he says that the name of his music is the journalist’s problem. Influenced by jazz greats like John Coltrane and Miles Davis to the Nigerian rhythmic sounds of the late Fela Kuti. Galliano refuses to delve into the already pioneered sounds of jazz and afro-beats and would rather focus on sounds not yet produced. His latest offering does just that, focussing on the sounds of house but taking the sound to a different dimension.
His production on this particular project is inspiring; each track carries a mood that really merits the sounds and feelings of African culture. Be it local children playing and screaming in the background of a deep nu-jazz house track or the ritualistic singing and chanting that accompanies dance floor inspired tribalism. Each sound that Frederic has delivered from Africa has been inserted into the mix with such sophistication that it sounds like the tracks themselves are the stage for the people it samples.
