Gabriele Poso Presents: Ritmo Italiano 'Unspoken Sounds Of Italian Tamburo'＜Red Vinyl＞

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Gabriele Poso is an internationally recognized percussionist, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and recording artist from Italy. He has been preaching the gospel of tamburo music since studying it in his teens. The word "tamburo" in Italian simply means "drum." That said, it is the beating heart of a genre-crossing, percussion-driven musical tradition that reflects Italy, Northern and Western Africa, South America, and the Caribbean. Its presence and influence on four decades of Italian music -- 1960s-1990s -- cant be overstated. These 11 tracks offer a kaleidoscope of hard-grooving tamburo style in jazz, library sound, rock, disco, funk, and film and TV soundtracks. The record opens with an exotica version of Juan Tizol and Duke Ellingtons "Caravan" by Puccia Roelens E La Sua Grande Orchestra. Introduced by bongos that ripple throughout, muted brass, a spooky Wurtlizer piano, and theremin, it retains the originals lushness while adding dreamy textural dimensions with a slower tempo, multiple flutes, and an electric bass. Its followed by Gege Munaris "Police Man," featuring a burning conga and drum kit dueling it out under an 80s-era funk-disco; it could easily have appeared in a movie chase scene. Cuban singer and master musician Don Marino Barreto Juniors "Napulitano D O Brasil" is a rootsy exercise in samba and Latin jazz. Tony Espositos panoramic "Pagaia" joins samba and slippery CTI-tinged 70s jazz-funk with breezy female vocals. Legend Rosario Germanos "Grand Oceano" weds Afro-Cuban carnival music to joyous funk with a driving electric bassline, synths, flute, slinky horns intoning a North African melodic vamp, and layers of percussion -- all played by him. There are two different mixes of conguero Tony Cercolas "Lumumba" -- drawn from his 2009 classic Voci Scomposte. It begins as a dreamy 21st century disco-fied samba before transforming itself into an Afro-funk chant with swelling organs, low-end bass magic, and of course, congas and drum machines. Posos "Ritmo Italiano" is dancefloor dynamite. Created entirely on vintage electric keys, synths, and drum machines, it jams Latin funk, contemporary jazz, disco, exotic house, and more into a richly harmonic rhythm orgy. Sicilian drummer Agostino Marangolo is a legend at home, having worked in Goblin and played on important horror soundtracks including Dario Argentos Deep Red and Suspira, George Romeros Zombie, and Edgar Wrights Shaun of the Dead. His "Certi giorni mi sento bene, certi giorni mi sento male" is a fusion exercise in drum-drenched prog rock, electric jazz, and spindly funk. His trap kit is unrelenting, canny, and true as it guides the knotty (yet grooving) labyrinthine jam. Hats off to Mr. Bongo for releasing Gabriele Poso Presents: Ritmo Italiano: Unspoken Sounds of Italian Tamburo. Nothing here is substandard or sounds dated or irrelevant. Poso has introduced audiences to this music on bandstands and club dancefloors from Rome and Havana to Rio, Miami, and San Juan. Now he gives this platter of beat-centric joy to the rest of the world. ~ Thom Jurek