Music Is My Home: Act 1 Raphaël Imbert

• 1 MLK Blues 04:05
• 2 Black Atlantic  03:18
• 3 The Mighty Flood  07:01
• 4 Going For Myself  05:17
• 5 Weeping Willow Blues  02:46
• 6 Please, Don’t Leave Me  05:40
• 7 Make That Guitar Talk 05:24
• 8 La Coulée Rodair  03:12
• 9 Help Me Lord  05:03
• 10 Sweat River Blues  04:27
• 11 Music is my Home  03:24
• 12 Just A Closer Walk With Thee  03:07
• 13 Po Boy  06:25
• 14 Going For Myself (radio edit) 03:33
• 15 Sweat River Blues (radio edit) 02:43
• Total Runtime 01:05:25

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Along with iconic American musicians - Big Ron Hunter, Alabama Slim, Leyla McCalla, Sarah Quintana... and young French artists, mostly from Compagnie Nine Spirit, the saxophonist suddenly evolves into an ethno-musicologist, taking us on a journey to the American “Deep South”. With his unique understanding of groove, he takes us to the heart of Creole and the current state of our ever- evolving oral cultures. He also considers our links with blues, jazz and our roots in a playful and original adventure. He expresses personal experience and musical contacts in tune with this fertile musical ground. That is the full meaning of the improvised musical welcome brought up to date here in Music is My Home.

A popular manifesto! “Jazz is the rule, blues is the tool and swing is the obvious thing!” At the outset, I had thought to use this precept as a slogan, “swing as the evidence”. But the literal English translation “evidence” seemed to have too much of a legal ring to it.

However, on reflection, “evidence” in its accepted English sense is also pertinent. Swing is evidence, proof of what is going on in American music styles, from Paul Robeson to Leonard Bernstein, via John Coltrane, Bill Monroe and Eminem. Musical styles which demonstrate the power of a musical revolution we call “jazz”, “blues” or “Americana”, and which, for two hundred years, have been shaking Western musical culture to its foundations. Shaking but not challenging. Jazz does not call into question the fundamentals of academic knowledge, neither at its beginnings nor at present. …

Raphael Imbert, saxophones, keyboards, vocals
Pierre Fenichel, double bass, bass ukulele
Big Ron Hunter, vocals, guitar
Leyla McCalla, vocals, cello, banjo
Anne Paceo, drums, vocals
Sarah Quintana, vocals
Marion Rampal, vocals
Simon Sieger, trombone, keyboards, accordion
Alabama Slim, guitar
Alain Soler, harmonica
Thomas Weirich, guitars

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