Charles Lloyd & Maria Farantouri - Athens Concert Recorded live June 2010 Released 2011 ECM 2205/06

2767833 Personnel Charles Lloyd tenor saxophone, flute, tarogato Maria Farantouri voice Jason Moran piano Reuben Rogers double-bass Eric Harland drums Socratis Sinopoulos lyra Takis Farazis piano Tracklist CD 1 Kratissa ti zoi mou Dream Weaver Blow Wind Requiem Greek Suite, Part I Hymnos stin Ayia Triada Epano sto xero homa Messa Stous paradissious kipous Taxidi sta Kythera CD 2 Prayer Greek Suite, Part II Vlefaro mou Margaritarenia Thalassaki Mou Greek Suite, Part III Epirotiko Meroloi Kaegomae kae Sigoliono Mori kontoula lemonia Alismono kae haeromae Tou hel to kastron Yanni Mou Background ======== Stunning performance in front of a huge audience at the open air Odeon of Herode s Atticus, as Charles Lloyd, uniquely-expressive saxophonist, and Maria Farantou ri, Greeces voice of resistance, come together. Friends for some years, this is t heir first recorded collaboration. Lloyds brilliant quartet is on hand - with Jas on Moran in especially creative mode - augmented by lyra player Socratis Sinopou los and second pianist Takis Frazio in a marvelous programme that includes songs by Mikis Theoedorakis, suites of Greek traditional music, Eleni Karaindrous Journ ey to Kythera and Lloyd originals including his classic Dream Weaver. Athens Concert is a major event, a very special live album indeed. Maria and I built upon this dream of creating a musical bridge between our two wo

rlds. This dream became manifest in the Athens concert. Charles Lloyd Recorded at the foot of the Acropolis, at the open air Odeon of Herodes Atticus, on a summer night last year, Athens Concert is an entrancing collaboration betwee n Charles Lloyd, uniquely expressive US saxophonist, and Maria Farantouri, vener able Greece vocalist the soul of Greece for many listeners. With Lloyds exception al band in impassioned support, the project raises the bar for trans-cultural musi c-making. The music sweeps the listener along in its swirling river of sound. Th is is music of many moods and currents celebratory, yearning, melancholic - embr acing suites of traditional Greek music, songs of Theodorakis and Eleni Karaindr ou, and Lloyd originals. The Lloyd band and Farantouri perform with a commitment that underscores the essential compatibility of the idioms. The great Greek the mes of love, exile, nostalgia, and departure find their correspondences, after a ll, in the history of jazz. And if Farantouri is not a jazz singer per se, she e mbodies an emotional power comparable with the greatest vocalists of any genre. Lloyd writes in his liner notes: From her first notes I felt such a power and dep th of humanity; she is a modern wonder rising up from the ruins of civilization. She is Alethea, Athena, Aphrodite, Demeter, Gaia, Phemonoe Mother of the Univer se. The resonance of her voice stirred the memory of my love for Lady Day. Athens Concert is the first recorded documentation of the alliance between Lloyd a nd Farantouri, but the concept has been taking shape and gathering momentum over the last decade. The singer and saxophonist met when Charles heard Maria in con cert in his home town of Santa Barbara, California, in 1992. Lloyd subsequently invited Farantouri to join him on stage in Greece in 1993. I felt her voice would be a perfect vehicle for my song Blow Wind. She, in turn, introduced me to Vlefaro Mou by Nikos Kypourgos and several songs by Mikis Theodorakis. Mikiss composition , I Kept Hold on My Life, with haunting lyrics by Nobel laureate poet George Sefer is took root in my repertoire Every year since then Lloyd has spent time in Greece learning more of its histor y, music and landscapes, and passing along knowledge of his own broad genre to F arantouri. For me, says the singer, it was an aesthetic pleasure to work with Charl es, becoming a unique experience on stage, as jazz music blended with the musica l tradition of Greece, and transformed it into a wholly new sound. In this they w ere aided by two further Greek musicians, arranger-pianist Takis Farazis and lyr a player Socratis Sinopoulos. The Greek traditional music heard here was arrange d for the performance by Takis Farazis. A former student of Hungarian jazz piani st Bela Lacatos, Farazis established his reputation in Greece with the group Isk ra and with his compositions for cinema and for presentations of ancient Greek d rama. As Lloyd notes, he made an enormous contribution to the Athens concert by c onnecting the dots between the structure of Greek tradition and the open borders of improvised music. Recorded collaborations with vocalists have been rare in Lloyds discography, a ha ndful of pop and rock sessions in the 1970s notwithstanding. Yet through the med ium of his saxophone, flute and tarogato, he is himself a singer - able in the c ourse of a few bars to conjure the spirit of the blues, the muezzins cry, or an e vening raga. His feeling for melody is profound, whether he is finding new meani ng in jazz standards, or wringing emotion from spirituals. From the beginning of his career, Lloyd has also proven an insightful leader and his band is, by comm on critical consensus, one of the finest in jazz today. The line-up has been sta ble for four years now, since Jason Moran came aboard as pianist in the quartet in early 2007. It is significant that Moran, a celebrated leader in his own righ t, newly voted Jazz Artist of the Year in the Down Beat Critics Poll and a recen t recipient of a MacArthur Genius Award continues to make space for commitments wi th Lloyd in an increasingly crowded schedule because there are lessons to be lea rned. Its generationally important for Reuben, Eric and me to play with Charles, Mo ran recently told Down Beat. Charles rides what we play and likes how we address his classic songs [Dream Weaver in the present instance]. He jumps into it. The ela

stic beat shared between Harland and Rogers and Moran is just one of the joys of this ensemble, and their tremendous drive and musicality underpins the wide-ran ging action of the Athens Concert. --------------------------------------------------------------------Charles Lloyd & Maria Farantouri - Athens Concert CD1 --------------------------------------------------------------------Artist...............: Album................: Genre................: Source...............: Year.................: Ripper...............: S Codec................: Version..............: Quality..............: Channels.............: Tags.................: Information..........: Ripped by............: Posted by............: News Server..........: News Group(s)........: Charles Lloyd & Maria Farantouri Athens Concert CD1 Jazz CD 2011 Exact Audio Copy (Secure mode) & Optiarc DVD RW AD-7240 Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) reference libFLAC 1.2.1 20070917 Lossless, (avg. compression: 103 %) Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit VorbisComment AneL on 28/9/2011 AneL on 28/9/2011 www.thenextbestsoundtosilence.co.nr -

Included.............: ARTWORK, EAC LOG, CUE, SFV, M3U --------------------------------------------------------------------Tracklisting --------------------------------------------------------------------1. (00:06:00) Charles Lloyd Hold of My Life 2. (00:08:10) Charles Lloyd ron 3. (00:05:34) Charles Lloyd 4. (00:05:58) Charles Lloyd 5. (00:04:03) Charles Lloyd mn to the Holy Trinity 6. (00:02:53) Charles Lloyd Dry Soil 7. (00:04:50) Charles Lloyd ous - In the Paradise Gardens 8. (00:04:35) Charles Lloyd to Cythera & Maria Farantouri - Kratissa ti zoi mou - I Kept & Maria Farantouri - Dream Weaver - Hyfantis onei & Maria Farantouri - Blow Wind - Fyssa ayeri & Maria Farantouri - Requiem Greek Suite, Part I & Maria Farantouri - Hymnos stin Ayia Triada - Hy & Maria Farantouri - Epano sto xero homa - In the & Maria Farantouri - Messa Stous paradissious kip & Maria Farantouri - Taxidi sta Kythera - Voyage

Playing Time.........: 01:06:56 Total Size...........: 222,29 MB NFO generated on.....: 28/9/2011 6:24:48 pm --------------------------------------------------------------------Charles Lloyd & Maria Farantouri - Athens Concert CD2 --------------------------------------------------------------------Artist...............: Charles Lloyd & Maria Farantouri Album................: Athens Concert CD2

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Jazz CD 2011 Exact Audio Copy

(Secure mode) & Optiarc DVD RW AD-7240

Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) reference libFLAC 1.2.1 20070917 Lossless, (avg. compression: 101 %) Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit VorbisComment AneL on 28/9/2011 AneL on 28/9/2011 www.thenextbestsoundtosilence.co.nr -

Included.............: ARTWORK, EAC LOG, CUE, SFV, M3U --------------------------------------------------------------------Tracklisting --------------------------------------------------------------------1. (00:07:58) Charles 2. (00:03:32) Charles art II 3. (00:01:29) Charles 4. (00:02:58) Charles ea 5. (00:06:28) Charles ite, Part III 6. (00:05:00) Charles n and Slowly Melt 7. (00:02:40) Charles le lemon Tree 8. (00:03:06) Charles et and I Am Glad 9. (00:04:28) Charles stle of the Sun 10. (00:07:27) Charles Lloyd & Maria Farantouri - Prayer - Prosefhi Lloyd & Maria Farantouri - Vlefaro mou - Greek Suite, P Lloyd & Maria Farantouri - Margaritarenia Lloyd & Maria Farantouri - Thalassaki mou - My Little S Lloyd & Maria Farantouri - Epirotiko meroloi - Greek Su Lloyd & Maria Farantouri - Kegome kai sigoliono - I Bur Lloyd & Maria Farantouri - Mori kontoula lemonia - Litt Lloyd & Maria Farantouri - Alismono kai herome - I Forg Lloyd & Maria Farantouri - Tou hel

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