Ji Dru

Ji Dru – Western (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:45 minutes | 475 MB | Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz
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Refined album, expressive and dreamlike. Mixed jazz, hybrid listening to current sounds, eternal groove and suspended trances. “Jî Drû, a flutist of character, producer and arranger, a furious band leader for Push Up !, and Jî Mob, an inspired sideman, today signs a first album under his name, refined, expressive and dreamlike: WESTERN.
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Ji Dru – Tribe from the Ashes (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:22 minutes | 1017 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Accompanied by a select group of musicians, the three artists form a jazz ensemble to unveil their first album, slated for October 8.

Conceived during the first confinement by Sandra Nkaké, Jî Drû and Marion Rampal, Tribe From the Ashes is a collective of 16 musicians born in response to the urgency of the situation. For an antidote to troubled times, the group mixes jazz, spiritual music and soul music. This is a soundscape that captures the energy of the group’s 16 members and honors all forms of Great Black Music, from groove to gospel, from Coltrane-like walls of notes to Sun Ra-like melodies, from fusion swerves to powerful folk-tinged ballads. The album, which was performed live in different forms and with guests, is not only a hymn to freedom, union and joint creation, but also a musical proposition never before heard in France. The first single from the project, “Nineteen,” is available now.
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