Magic Malik

Magic Malik – Short Cuts (2011)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:55 minutes | 664 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Malik Mezzadri is a jazz Flautist born in 1969. He grew up in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe where he started recorder (fipple flute) and transverse flute at the age of 6. When he was 13 he learnt flute with Marc Rovelas who made him discover Bach, Xenakis, Ravel and Stockhausen.

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Magic Malik – Jazz Association (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 44:51 minutes | 467 MB | Genre: Jazz
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For more than 20 years, Malik Mezzadri aka Magic Malik has not wandered around the jazz world like his colleagues. Even if improvisation has always been at the heart of his art, the flutist moves between jazz, funk, electro, fusion, world and even pop with impressive flexibility. With his Jazz Association, however, he decides to concentrate himself for the first time on an exclusively bop and post-bop jazz repertoire. With the trumpetist Olivier Laisney, the pianist Maxime Sanchez, double-bassist Damien Varaillon and drummer Stefano Lucchini, Magic Malik covers tracks by Wayne Shorter, Sonny Rollins, Clifford Brown and Thelonious Monk. Fortunately, nothing of course happens as predicted, and these world-renowned high standards take on a fresh flare when Malik is having fun with singing. Really quite magic. – Marc Zisman

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Magic Malik – Fanfare XP, Vol. 2 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:03:22 minutes | 672 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Onze Heures Onze

Whether collaborating with Human Spirit, Steve Colman, Saint-Germain, Julien Lourau or funk bands, it takes only a few seconds to recognise the sound of Magic Malik’s flute. The Fanfare XP is the brainchild of Magic Malik, Pascal Mabit and Olivier Laisney (of the collective Onze Heures Onze), when they met during a residency at the Fondation Royaumont. This project gathers a number of musicians that varies, volunteers from all backgrounds, all keen to explore composition and improvisation through original angles, developed by Malik throughout the course of his career : taléas-colors (discrepancy between rhythm and melody), tonal signatures (harmonic system develop by Malik), Messiaen modes….

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