Savanna Radio, by Arcturus Spring

Savanna Radio

by Arcturus Spring

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1.	Savanna Radio 04:50	buy track
2.	The Leopard 04:20	buy track
3.	Flight 05:39	buy track
4.	Leap of Faith 04:06	buy track
5.	The Jade Figurine 04:20	buy track
6.	Out of the Gates 05:38	buy track
7.	Lily of the Nile 04:44	buy track
8.	A Cry in the Darkest Night 03:21	buy track
9.	Sunshine's Song 06:26	buy track

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Few musical projects that I've come across are as appropriately named as Savanna Radio. Evoking a plethora of sounds and images, the words making up this musical project's appellation paint vivid pictures of things as disparate as watching animals drink as the sun rises on the veldt, to being clustered around a grainy, tinny radio listening to Duke Ellington on a rainy night. There is a wide swath of scope covered here in the title alone, and the music certainly surpasses it with relentless ambition and focus. In some ways the album acts as an aural journey, we start with hints of civilization, rhythmic patterns paying homage to the musical traditions not only of the savanna, but also of the desert, the jungle, and river deltas both Nile and Mississippi. Over the course of the album, the musicians explore a variety of moods tones and styles, ranging far afield of any narrow genre connotation, potentially evoking comparisons to people but ultimately sounding like no one but themselves. Is it funk? Hell yeah it's funky, but this isn't one of those parliament 'everything is on the one' dishes, honey. Is it jazz? You best believe there is a ton of playing on this album to send people back out to the woodshed to get their chops up. Is it Afrobeat? Is it Blues? There are moments when it is both, there are moments when it is neither. It is the sound of a wide open world; a world full of different cultures and beliefs, a world where tradition and technology can exist in a beautifully chaotic balance. The weight of tradition, of progressions a hundred years old and the promise of the future, of untold musical amalgams and hybrids all present here. Forget genre, forget style, forget preconceived notions. Just don't forget to groove. - Ray Blum

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released October 23, 2014

Matt van den Heuvel - Guitar, Bass, Organ (4,6,8)
Christian Casolary - Drums
Justin Smith - Organ, Clavinet
Alexis Tahiri - Trumpet
Frank Vitolo - Tenor Saxophone
Jimmy Austin - Trombone
Thomas Harris - Tenor Saxophone (3,5,6,7)
Samuel Eisen-Meyers - Guitar and Organ (2)

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