MP3 Simon Spang-Hanssen & Rainbow Spirit - Rainbow Spirit
A joyful combination af jazz and West-African music featuring Dawda Jobarteh(Gambia), kora / Thomas Fonnesbech (Denmark), basses /Ayi Solomon (Ghana), percussion and S.S.H. (DK), saxophones and flutes.
9 MP3 Songs in this album (36:38) !
Related styles: JAZZ: World Fusion, WORLD: African- West
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Simon Spang-Hanssen & Rainbow Spirit
Simon Spang-Hanssen , saxophones, flute
Dawda Jobarteh , kora
Thomas Fonnesbech , bass
Ayi Solomon, percussion
Mariane Bitran , flute on tracks 2 and 8
Recorded in Copenhagen in july 2005 by Louise Nippert
all compositions by Simon Spang-Hanssen
Nominated for the Danish Jazz Awards 2008 in the "cross-over" category
"Danish/African quartet plays a seductive mix of jazz and
west-african music.
It might sound as a cliché, but it is nevertheless a fact,
that one cannot maintain ones hard fought-for and tightly
buttoned melancholia and expanding lunar-eclipse, while listening to this african inspired https://www.tradebit.com simply get -
whether you want it or not - in a happy mood listening to it."Rainbow Spirit" is not quite "pure" african music."Rainbow Spirit" is more of a mixture of modern european jazz and traditional west-african music. Gambian
kora-player Dawda Jobarteh and Ghanean percussionist Ayi
Solomon are quite central in the general sound-picture, but - I might say- quite as central are the two danes, Simon Spang-Hanssen on saxophones and flute and Thomas Fonnesbech on bass. This constellation- this danish/african quartet- creates a unique, lively, refreshing and seductive musical univers, which both perpetuates the qualities of West-Afican tradition and develops it with an injection of nordic https://www.tradebit.com music is
simple, easy to listen to and sometimes almost coy, but it also has profoundness,character and edge. This makes it worthwhile listening to - again and again."
Ivan Rod Gaffa 2007( danish music periodical )
"Rainbow Spirit" was born out of the desire of the leaders
to investigate a different soundscape and from a fascination with the kora and West-African music in https://www.tradebit.comt of the compositions could have been played in
other setting, but were arranged specifically for the sound of this group.
Simon Spang-Hanssen february 2008
Dawda Jobarteh ( Gambia ) is from a family of musicians and
has played with his own group "Wakilo" as well as with Moussa Diallo and as frequent guest with the New Jungle Orchestra.
Thomas Fonnesbech ( Denmark ) plays with Poul Reimann Trio,
Thomas Clausen trio and sextet, Mona Larsen, Soes Fenger,
Kristian Joergensen...
Ayi Solomon ( Ghana ) played with "Classic Vibes" ,and
later with New Jungle Orchestra, Dalia Faitelson, Susi
Hyldgaard, Moussa Dialo, Nana Osibio "Asafo" and his own band...
Simon Spang-Hanssen ( Denmark ) started out with John Tchicai and "Strange Brothers, later with Ben Besiakov,
Jesper Lundgaard, Alex Riel, Nguyên Lê, Richard Bona, Billy
Hart, Edouard Ferlet, Andy Emler...leader of several projects his also directs "Ear Witness" with Emil Spanyi,
Linley Marthe and Felix Sabal-Lecco...