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Release Date Friday 18th October 2024
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.
'Sweet Release' is the second album from master musicians Justin
Adams & Mauro Durante
Three years of worldwide touring has turned what was originally a fusion project
into a fully realised and unique entity. Drawing on Durante's Taranta background
withCanzoniere Grecanico Salentino, as well as his work with Ludovico Einaudi,
and Adams' prolifc career as guitarist, with everyone from Sinead O'Connor to
Robert Plant and Tinariwen, their musical landscape ranges from raw Rockabilly
to Suf ecstasy via Minimalism. For this album they have brought in some guest
vocalists adding yet more layers to their distinctive sound. Recorded live, 'Sweet
Release' will be released on 18 October on Ponderosa Music Records with
accompanying live dates including London, Bristol, Oxford, Shefeld and Swansea
and WOMEX in Manchester.
Exploring themes of musical healing and catharsis, the title track and opener
' Sweet Release ' is a heartfelt manifesto of the duo's vision, featuring Adams'
unmistakeable touch on the guitar and Durante's masterful tamburello frame
drum. Along with original tracks such as the shimmering pizzica- based 'Leuca'
featuring guest singer Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino's Alessia Tondo and the
wildly rocking 'Ghost Train', they cover Lebanese Diva Fairuz's haunting Easter
Hymn 'Wa Habibi' with guest singer Yousra Mansour from Bab L' Bluz, which
becomes a timely meditation on suffering. CBGB's underground legend Felice
Rosser brings vocals to 'Tide Keeps Turning' adding a deeply soulful touch to the
ritual Neapolitan Tammurriata beat of Durante's drum. Adams' starkly beautiful
guitar illuminates 'Aurora', inspired by a dawn call to prayer heard in Rajasthan,
while 'Santu Paulu' invokes the saint of Tarantism with hypnotic psychedelia. The
anthemic Instrumental 'Ithaca Return' opens brightly before turning into a wild
pizzica-like tune led by Durante's rhapsodic violin. 'Qui Non Vorrei Morire', sung by
Durante, is a setting of a poem by Vittorio Bodini, another native of Salento,
originally recorded by Mauro's late father Daniele, one of the leading lights of the
Taranta revival.
CD Tracks: Sweet Release / Leuca (ft. Alessia Tondo) / Ghost Train / Wa Habibi
(ft. Yousra Mansour) / Silver and Stone / Aurora / Ithaca Return / Qui Non Vorrei
Morire / Tide Keeps Turning (ft. Felice Rosser) / Santu Paulu
LP Tracks: Sweet Release / Leuca (ft. Alessia Tondo) / Ghost Train / Wa Habibi
(ft. Yousra Mansour) / Silver and Stone / Aurora / Ithaca Return / Qui Non Vorrei
Morire / Tide Keeps Turning (ft. Felice Rosser)
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