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

Raphaël Imbert
saxophonist and jazz composer, recipient of a ‘Villa Médicis hors les murs’ award for his research into sacred music and jazz, who won the 28th national jazz competition at La Défense in 2005 with his ensemble Newtopia. Selfmade man, Raphaël Imbert started jazz at Marseille Conservatory with Philippe Renault and met there regional musicans with whom he plays regularly (Emile Atsas, Jean-Luc Difraja, Vincent Lafont, Pierre Fenichel...). He wins with Jean-Jacques Élangué the first price of Marseille Conservatory and creates 2 groups "Hemlé orchestra" and " Atsas imbert consort", with whom he will play in numerous festivals (Vienne, Nice, Fiesta des Suds, Théâtre des Salins...). He develops his taste for composition and the most eclectic musical situations. He creates a vision of music and jazz connected to spirituality very essential to the jazzman approach. For this purpose, he creates « Nine Spirit » to play "sacred music" of Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, Albert Ayler and others, and to produce shows which are inspired by powerful texts written by Théodore Monod, Amadou Hampatê Bâ, Martin Luther King ... Raphaël Imbert worked on a study focused on the Sacred in Jazz and becomes recipient of Villa Médicis Hors Les Murs, managed by AFAA and the french foreign affairs ministry which enabled him to stay in New York during october 2003. Raphaël Imbert develops many teaching project in Marseille Conservatory, at Festival Cluny and Fai’art. He belongs to the Orchestre National de Jazz administration board since september 2004 and wins the 28th national jazz competition at La Défense in 2005 with his ensemble Newtopia. He writes music for cinema and television for Philippe Carrése et Isabelle Boni-Claverie projects. Raphaël Imbert manages 2 groups within the Nine Spirit Company, 2 records are released with Zig Zag Territoires Label : la Suite Elegiaque"with Newtopia Project (ZZT 061103) , and a special christmas album, Pieces for Christmas Peace with Sixtine Group distribution Harmonia Mundi.

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