Glücklich 2

Artist: V.A.
Title: Glücklich 2
Cat No: CPT 021-1 / CPT 021-2
Format: LP / CD

Quotes: Glücklich in German means “lucky”, and there´s no better word to describe the deluge of music we get from this series. XLR8R

Info: Welcome to chapter 2 of the „Glücklich“ – compilation series. This time we are not only featuring fusion made in Germany, but we´re also extending our musical terrain to Europe´s finest in jazz / fusion with a Brazilian tinge. First of we go Benelux with Sail-Joia, a band consisting of half Brasileiros, half Dutchmen/-women. „Go For The Others“, with its minimal bassline, features the Lameirinhas bros. on acoustic guitar and bass, Shawn Bergin on soprano sax and well-known session man Nippy Noyaon percussion. Next up is Cuban percussionist Nicos Jaritz With chords reminiscent of Pharoah Sanders´ “Upper Egypt Lower Egypt“ we move on: „Nil“ is the tune and percussionist and his Austrian compañeros with a cooking, rootsy batucada entitled „Otão E Eu“. This 1985 production is still a . . . →

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Glücklich 1

Artist: V.A.
Title: Glücklich 1
Cat No: CPT 004-1 / CPT 004-2
Format: LP / CD

Quotes: Excellent. Just when you thought the Latin-dance explosion was getting tired, this comp reminds you why it got so big in the first place. Alternative Press / Glücklich flirts to conistently with samba and bossa nova as well as house and breaks, and never veer into kitsch. Philadelphia Weekly

Info: ”Glücklich” (means: happy or lucky) with the brazilian-fusion-grooves of good old german jazzmusicians like Klaus Doldinger (the original LP fetch up to 90 Pound/Sterling in England), singer Kitty Winter (the Stuttgart-based singer is very popular in every progressive dancefloor jazz-club around the world), Rainer Pusch or John Thomas. They all gained worldwide reputation as brilliant jazzmusicians. The perfect adaptation of elegant and uplifting brazil-jazz was nuthin’ but “state of the art” for every passionate jazzmusician in Europe, especially in Germany, for example on MPS-Records in the Black Forest. A few tracks are sheer classics in Londons clubsscene as well as in Brasil. Others . . . →

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