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Adrian Raso and Fanfare Ciocărlia ▶ Devil’s tale
Legend has it that the Devil likes to frequent crossroads, cutting deals for souls and spinning his cunning yarns. Yet not all crossroad pacts are diabolical; some are just damned brilliant. Take the crossroads encounter behind Devil’s Tale, where the eastern force field of Balkan brass meets Gypsy jazz guitar, as Romania's
Fanfare Ciocărlia
joins up with Canadian guitarist
Adrian Raso
Fanfare Ciocarlia are a 24-legged brass beast whose eastern funk groove has torn up halls and festivals across the planet. Raso is a master guitarist, deeply versed in the French Manouche / Gypsy jazz stylings of Django Reinhardt. Could a string musician find a way into Fanfare's fierce Balkan brass blast? Could the legends of brass adapt their horns to the fluid eloquence of a jazz guitarist? The answer, as heard on this album, is one of brilliant defiance. Dig the rush: the Romanians and the Canadian have created a sound that rips and swings and roars.
Adrian Raso has dreamt of this project for years. The gifted guitarist possesses a vast musical vocabulary rooted in Gypsy jazz yet, in his fleet fingers, capable of referencing metal, Latin, funk and his family's Italian tarantella roots. Raso built his virtuoso reputation playing Toronto's toughest clubs as a teenager. More than two decades later he remains on a musical quest that demands he challenge himself. The quest lead to him reaching out to Fanfare Ciocarlia - the Romany Gypsy orchestra from the "invisible" village of Zece Prajini in north eastern Romania - who blast a fierce, very individual brand of Balkan brass. Both Raso and Fanfare share a love of Django Reinhardt and big band jazz but initial concerns surrounded whether their very different backgrounds would allow for a common musical dialogue to ensure.
"Meeting the band was a great experience," says Raso. "We bonded instantly. We joked about being separated brothers as it really did feel like that. Musically we understood each other from the get go."
Fanfare Ciocarlia are the world's greatest Balkan brass band. When a band is at the top, the undisputed heavyweight champion, they have two options: either get lazy and repeat themselves or seek out new challenges. Fanfare Ciocarlia are hungry men and, having seen too many Balkan brass bands descend into the farce of playing-standards-too-fast or allowing tone deaf DJs to exploit them as decoration over a lame electronic beat, they chose to broaden Balkan brass's vocabulary. Meeting Adrian Raso gave Fanfare the perfect musical foil.
Across several chilly Toronto days the Romanians and the Canadian came together. Raso called in several heavy friends to contribute to sessions. These included legendary guitarists John Jorgenson and Rodrigo (of Rodrigo & Gabriela) and rock drummer Kevin Figueiredo (of Extreme). This album - reaching down to New Orleans, across the Atlantic to Paris, deep into the Balkans and back through decaying Detroit to Toronto's grandeur - is the result. What wild beauty these men created! Raso's guitar sets off on a fluid journey, caressing and cajoling the horns who tell tales of a music that has ancestors in Africa and India, one shaped in old Europe and young America. Perhaps no one involved guessed such wild beauty would result from these sessions. Here it is: Adrian Raso and Fanfare Ciocarlia have created a music rooted in jazz and the Balkans, a sound full of history but looking towards the future. No clichés here - No gimmicks. Just obsessed musicians all determined to raise their game and chase sonic dreams. Spread the word - here is magic that might charm even jaded old Mephistopheles!
In the past Raso has released albums of music ranging from Gypsy Swing to rockabilly and collaborated with everybody from Sheila E. to Lee Rocker of the Stray Cats, but as far as I know this is the first time he has sat down to record, or play even, with a brass band.
While I was very familiar Fanfare’s previous work, I’d never heard anything by Raso before this disc. However, I did have some understanding of the style of music he plays. For while he’s apparently an incredibly versatile performer, he appears to lean towards the more sophisticated Latin and Gypsy Swing influenced styles of jazz guitar work. Knowing how intricate and subtle those types of music can be, and also knowing how Fanfare’s preferred approach was anything but either of those, I wondered how the heck their two seemingly widely divergent performance styles could meld successfully.
Which just goes to show how much I had underestimated Fanfare Ciocarlia’s musical ability and their capability to adapt. All it takes is hearing the first notes of the disc’s opening track to realize the band has entered into this partnership whole heartedly. Sure all their familiar energy is present, but now they have channeled it into musical nuance instead of blasting us out of our seats. For not only have they found common ground with Raso, but they have moved further afield musically than I would have thought possible.
“Urn St.Tavern”, the disc’s opening track, is a wonderful example of how this union of styles resulted in something completely unexpected. I’m not exactly sure how to describe it, except that it would fit into the sound track of any number of Robert Rodriguez’s more macabre movies. There’s a slightly eerie overtone to Raso’s guitar work which sends shivers up your spine while Fanfare’s horns provide an ominous backdrop against which any sort of weird and creepy activity could take place. Who knows what the patrons of “Urn St.Tavern” get up to when dark comes creeping in over the mountains? Nothing any stranger would want to experience on their own, that much is for sure. (Obviously I wasn’t the only one who made this connection as can be seen on the amazing video for the song)
As the disc progresses the jaw dropping work of both members of the collaborative team continues. The fourth track, “C’est La Vie” is a wonderful example of French/Romany swing music. Not only do Fanfare play with the relaxed assurance required to make this song bop and move with ease and grace, it’s also a chance to hear what makes Raso such a special guitar player. Not only do his fingers fly over the fret board on his leads he manages to impart a kind of emotional joie de vivre into his playing. It’s fast, loose and as full of life as the streets of the Left Bank of Paris where some new excitement is always lurking around the next corner.
The solo exchanges between the guitar and clarinet on this song resonate with not only the sounds of Paris, but Eastern Europe as well. You can hear the echoes of both Romany music and its close relative Klezmar come through as the clarinet swings its plaintive sound in cheerful defiance against the oppressive background that gave birth to both types of music. Simply listening to them perform lifts the heart and the spirit, and makes you appreciate how much music can lift you out of the muck and mire of a hard life.
It’s only fitting the final song on the disc is named “Django” in honour of the great Django Reinhardt, basically the inventor of the jazz style now called Gypsy Swing. However, the song’s title can have a double meaning as the word Django translates from the Romany as “I awake”. While Raso’s guitar playing on this song harkens back to Reinhardt’s style of jazz, the counterpoint provided by the brass is like a wake up call. While they’re playing many of the same motifs Raso plays on his guitar, they put an extra punch into them which makes them leap out of your speakers. While some times jazz guitar can fade into the background if you don’t pay careful attention, Fanfare’s horns keep you awake and aware all the time. Whether they are providing the bass underpinning to the guitar leads with tubas and baritones, or snapping out leads on trumpets, they make sure our feet are always awake and moving to the music.
At first sight it would appear a brass band from a remote village in North Eastern Romania would have little in common with a guitar player from a small city in South Western Ontario, Canada. However, Adrian Raso from Guelph Ontario and Fanfare Ciocarlia from Zece Prajini have proven with their release, Devil’s Tale, music knows no geographic, or any other, types of boundaries. Music is a universal language might sound like a cliche, but in the case of these two musical forces, not only was it literally true as neither spoke the other’s tongue, but artistically as well. Each listened and heard what the other had to say and then responded in kind with results that are as spectacular as they are fun. On their own both Fanfare Ciocarlia and Adrian Raso are musicians to be reckoned with, together they are musical synergy of perfect storm proportions. Stand in the whirlwind and be swept off your feet by the result – you’ll feel like you’re finally awake.
"Balkan brass bands, who compete fiercely among themselves, are prone to blow away anyone who comes near. Credit, then, to Toronto guitarist Adrian Raso, who has tamed Romania's Fanfare Ciocărlia for a winning collaboration rooted in the "Gypsy swing" of Django Reinhardt. Raso is an eclectic talent; the title track carries the twang of electric surf guitar, the languid Leezard's Lament finds him improvising on banjo, and Spiritissimo dips into flamenco flavours. The 12-piece band are splendidly restrained, swelling gently behind waltzes, contributing accordion and clarinet and only occasionally ripping into their trademark supercharged intricacy. All instrumental and all delightful."
The Observer, London, UK, January 5th 2014
Voted # 1 by the World Music Catalog (February 2014)
Musicians:
Adrian Raso – guitar, banjo & electric bass
Fanfare Ciocărlia
Costica “Cimai” Trifan – trumpet, vocals, Radulescu Lazar – trumpet
Paul Marian Bulgaru – trumpet, Trifan Craciun – trumpet
Oprica Ivancea - clarinet, alto saxophone, Daniel Ivancea - alto saxophone
Constantin “Pinca” Cantea – tuba, Monel “Gutzel” Trifan – tuba
Constantin “Sulo” Calin - tenor horn, Laurentiu Mihai Ivancea - baritone horn
Costel “Gisniaca” Ursu - large drum, Nicolae Ionita – percussion
Special guests:
John Jorgenson – guitar, mandolin & clarinet on track 3, 4, 11, 12,
Rodrigo - guitar solo on track 10, Kevin
Figueiredo – drums on track 10, Kai Schönburg – drums & percussion except track 1, 6 & 10,
Michael Metzler - jew's harp on track 8, Florin Ionita – accordion on track 6, Marc Elsner - electric bass on track 12,
Devil's tale - Adrian Raso & Fanfare Ciocarlia (CD-ATR 4414, UK, 2014)
01 [4:06] Urn st. Tavern
02 [3:10] Swing sagarese
03 [4:28] The absinthe-minded gypsy
04 [2:46] C'est la Vie
05 [2:40] Quattro cicci
06 [2:54] Charlatan's waltz
07 [2:53] Devil's tale
08 [3:11] Leezard's lament
09 [3:15] Cafe con leche
10 [3:36] Spiritissimo
11 [3:48] Bireli's waltz
12 [4:07] Django
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