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"Je N' Aime Que Toi" from Descarga Oriental: The New York Sessions (Piranha)
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"Oh! Ma Belle" from Descarga Oriental: The New York Sessions (Piranha)
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CD Review (Translated from Spanish)

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-JUAN ANTONIO VÁZQUEZ

The Algerian pianista septuagenerian disembarks in New York to measure forces with the Havanan percusionista brioso. The Médioni grew in the Jewish district of Orán, and when it was 9 years old, a piano appeared in his house. Immediately he put himself to give of ear the French songs of the radio. Years later already he touched Latin jazz, boogie and numbers in a bar frequented by North American soldiers. All those ingredients, as well as raï, andalusí music and other elements of the magrebí popular culture, went away fusing in their style. Rodriguez, on the other hand, is percusionista struggling that has been joined with as different musicians as Cachao, John Zorn or Joe Jackson. And here we have juntitos, in this disc in which a touching, elegant and very danceable encounter between the afrocubano and the North African, the Caribbean and the Mare Nostrum, happened is revealed in the shores of the Hudson.

 10/31/06 >> go there
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