Extraordinary Rendition

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Extraordinary RenditionOpis:Product Description Born to Indian parents in California, raised in the US, India and southern France, and leading a double life as a musician and a doctor, singer/guitarist/poser Rupa Marya and her polyglot band of musical renegades have taken the San Francisco Bay Area by storm. With their enchanting mix of chic French nouvelle vague, energetic Gypsy swing, and dreamy Indian ragas, the trend-setting band is spearheading a multicultural movement that is redefining the sound of contemporary music. While the music of Rupa & the April Fishes defies categorization, their intimate sound bined with a broad appeal has earned them parisons to everyone from Manu Chao to Pink Martini. Rupa's nomadic upbringing has led her to write songs in a multitude of languages, including French, Spanish, Hindi and English. With themes ranging from love and death to politics and philosophy, the songs offer a magic carpet ride through time and place and embody Rupa's goal of breaking down borders both real and imagined. The band's sold-out shows at large venues in San Francisco have earned renown for their circus-like atmosphere that channels a modern-day Moulin Rouge. The band's informal, acoustic line-up includes Rupa on guitar and vocals backed by upright bass, cello, accordion or bandoneon, percussion and trumpet. Personnel: Rupa Marya - (vocals, guitar), Ed Baskerville - (cello), Marcus Cohen - (trumpet), Isabel Douglass - (accordion), Safa Shokrai - (upright bass), Aaron Kierbel - (drums) Review San Francisco may never again capture the epiphanic heights of the 1960s, when the Haight-Ashbury intersection was the very cradle of the global countercultural movement, but it seems it's not going to give up trying.

Rupa And The April Fishes is the latest category-defying, pan-everything, all-musical-points-of-the-pass outfit to e from the melting-pot city. They're surprising and delightful, as the punningly titled debut disc Extraordinary Rendition colourfully reveals.

Extraordinary Rendition crackles with energy and seethes with vivid splashes of colour. Sung in French, Spanish and English, it has a likable ability to simultaneously stimulate and soothe, its aromatic melange of sounds throwing up surprise after surprise in a free-wheeling, all-inclusive fashion that intoxicates with every note.

The musical signature owes much to the diversity of the five-piece band, fronted by the eponymous and exotic Rupa Marya, along with the intensely woven but lightly worn reciprocity of their playing. As gently swaying piano accordion mingles with the pulse of a double bass, brass and percussion massage the senses with wele hints of klezmer, Argentinean tango, French Musette and Roma music. All of this is subtly filtered into a seductively assembled whole.

There's a useful tension, too, between Marya's ambition to say something politically relevant and her aspiration to do so in an determinedly laid-back style. You might catch echoes of DeVotchKa, The Tiger Lillies or Gogol Bordello here but you won't find any of their unfettered hysteria, ic-book grotesquerie or messy rawness. If you absolutely insist on a parison, think Pink Martini with the emphasis on music rather than on style for style's sake. Instead, there's something sunlit, warm and free to be found in all of this, and a refreshing honesty, too. It's musical globe-trotting conducted with sophisticated elegance and underpinned by a winning sense of joy. --Michael QuinnFind more music at the BBC This link will take you off in a new window Review (4 stars) Exciting mosaic of chansons, tangos, waltzes and an East European knees-up...evades being pinned down by time or place. -- The Times, (David Hutcheon), June 7, 2008(4 stars) Like a classier Les Negresses Vertes. Upright bass, trumpet and cello bine in French, gypsy and Latin stylings. -- The Observer Music Monthly, (Molloy Woodcraft), June 2008Autor:Rupa & the April FishesNośnik:Audio CDPłyt:Język: Data wydania: 2009Waga: 0.18 gramWysokość: 0.4 cmSzerokość: 4.8 cmDługość: 5.5 cmUWAGA: Kupując produkt na tej aukcji zgadzasz się na wydłużony termin realizacji wysyłki (10-14 dni roboczych). Podany towar pochodzi z zagranicznego magazynu, stąd wydłużony czas realizacji który podany jest obok.