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CAFE CREOLE
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Artist: AMANDA Title: CAFE CREOLE Article No.: 00592 Media type: CD Genre: World music Label: CCn'C RECORDS Year of release: 2001 Price: EUR 12,50 incl. VAT plus carriage costs For all foreign orders: Declared value is net! |
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Amanda |
"Café Creole"
German Record Critics Award - for Folk- and World music
Crossing Roads at AMANDA'S "Café Creole". The vocal ensemble AMANDA which was formed in 1981 in the Swedish city of Gothenburg is a melting pot of different musical interests.
Baroque singers meet up with song writers, rock musicians with folkies - all in all sometimes about 35 musicians - and they all have one goal in mind - to inspire and move an audience to the point of a unified release of emotional expression. And so with supreme ease and talent they play musical material from all ages and styles, incorporate themes from around the world into varying and exciting arrangements, create new forms and develop a style of music in which the realm of sound and play with color cross the limits of the known.
"Café Creole" represents the culmination of the many years work and interests of this unusual choir. They mix the traditional sound of Haiti and Swedish songs into a blend of Creole music. What looks impossible to bridge on paper, becomes comprehensible when the Voodoo roots of Creole music are looked at more closely.
The belief that all forms of life have spirits amalgamates with elements of holy catholic legends and becomes a deeply gripping spirituality. Varied musical traditions, in this case the "classical" music of Scandinavia and Haiti, connect on "Café Creole" as a chain of stories which do not cross the limits only because as in this case with AMANDA - as you can hear - these limits are proven as non-existent.
Packed in an emotional dramaturgy that thrives on a brilliant exchange of varied leading voices on a background of classical a-capella-singing plus diverse instrumental accompaniment, AMANDA presents its musical material as valid vocal art without boundaries.
AMANDA is a part of the very strong Swedish folk-rock scene and some of their members also worked with groups like GROUPA DEN FULE SIMBI BÄSK HEDNINGARNA.
In this scene you also find Mats Eden, the Nordan Project with Ale Moller and Lena Willemark and many others.
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