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Smoke have reggae music down to a science and their formula has enough soul to transcend its ingredients. What more can you ask for? Very little, actually. Routes is as no-nonsense reggae as it gets. At a time when every reggae act is either following a trend or trying to make a new trend catch on, these Italian (!) guys are teaching everyone a lesson: back to the basics! Routes, their second opus, has everything it takes to satisfy the reggae fan and even, maybe, make a little foray on the mainstream charts. And what's that "everything"? Rhythm, melodies, soulful voices, and a social conscience. No digital trickery, no hip-hop crossover, no guest producer roll call. Fronted by singer Séan Daniel Martin, whose voice recalls the young Horace Andy in its inflections, Smoke have the potential general appeal of the great Bob Marley. The simple yet well-exploited production values of Routes are in part responsible for that, but much must also be credited to the band's effective songwriting. The songs about relationships and harmony tend to be too light ("Don't Leave Me Today," "Wasn't It You") -- and it that sense, the album could have been trimmed down in size -- but the social issue songs hit the awareness nerve straight on, from Mao-era China ("Iron Man Wang") to children's rights ("Save All the Kids") and the resource plundering of Africa ("Ken Saro Wiwa"). Of course, nothing on Routes is particularly groundbreaking or original (except for the fact that it comes out of Italy), but that will start to bother you only after a few listens and, by then, bits like the call line to "Let There Be Light" and the addictive chorus of "Iron Man Wang" will have made deep-seated nests inside your pleasure centers. Reggae rarely got this universal. ~ François Couture
Smoke (Reggae): Alessandro Soresini, Gianluca Pelosi, Marco Zaghi.
Personnel: Cesare Nolli (guitars); Riccardo Gibertini (trumpet); Angelo Cattoni, Patrick Benifei (keyboards); Raymond Wright, Sean Daniel Martin, Sergio Cocchi (background vocals).
Audio Mixer: Alessandro Nozza.
Recording information: Alborosie Studio (JA) (2007-2008). Routes Review
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Night in Fonorama. And it was a night in the real meaning of the word, that the five jazzmen spent at the Fonorama, one of the most important studios in Milano. It was the night of May the 31st 1964. They met at nine o' clock in the evening, and they saw the day-break on a working Milano while they still were trying to perfectionate the last tune. We said they ®met¯: and no word is more significative to indicate the meeting of the five musicians at the studio. There was nothing decided before: neither the pieces to be recorded, nor even the least idea of arrangement. They met and decided the pieces to record. It was not even necessary to establish an order for the solos. Some notes to warm up the instruments, and then they started with the first tune, as if they had always played together. Naturally these sessions, particulary in Italy, never are spontaneous: generally there must be someone to create the opportunity. In this case the ® promoter ¯, was the drummer Franco Tonani. ® A real jazz record, just like I wanted it and like I felt it ¯, - said Tonani. And to have it, he reunited himself with some well-known musicians: Lee . Gato , Barbieri, an Italo-Argentine tenor-sax who is showing his value day and day more; Franco Ambrosetti, the young son of the well-known Swiss musician Flavio; Giovanni Tommaso, who is doubtless the best jazz-bassist now in Italy, and at last an o outsider -: Franco D'Andrea. I think he'll not take the word ® outsider ¯: in a bad way: it's evident that with this record he really deserves to be recognised as one of the best european pianists. But let's pass oil to a consideration of the pieces: Vamos originally ...
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