St Germain – Tourist (Tourist 20th Anniversary Travel Versions) (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

St Germain – Tourist (Tourist 20th Anniversary Travel Versions) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:17:52 minutes | 904 MB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Parlophone (France)

To celebrate the 20th Anniversary of his TOURIST album, Ludovic Navarre aka ‘St Germain’ has invited UK, South Africa, USA, Reunion Island and Franceproducers, DJs and remixers with various musical inspirations, from Deep House to Afro House and Chicago House …

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St Germain – Extra Cabin Baggage (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

St Germain – Extra Cabin Baggage (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 36:55 minutes | 448 MB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Parlophone (France)

With his timeless, jazzy and universal music, St Germain has won over an international audience, even managing the feat of beating the Beatles in terms of sales figures in New Zealand! Now, the legendary St Germain announces his big comeback with the release of Extra Cabin Baggage, a new EP featuring 7 all-new remixes from his Tourist album!

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St Germain – Tourist (2012 Remaster) (2000/2012) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

St Germain – Tourist (2012 Remaster) (2000/2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:26 minutes | 1,31 GB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Parlophone (France)

Since the advent of acid jazz in the mid-’80s, the many electronic-jazz hybrids to come down the pipe have steadily grown more mature, closer to a balanced fusion that borrows the spontaneity and emphasis on group interaction of classic jazz while still emphasizing the groove and elastic sound of electronic music. For his second album, French producer Ludovic Navarre expanded the possibilities of his template for jazzy house by recruiting a sextet of musicians to solo over his earthy productions. The opener “Rose Rouge” is an immediate highlight, as an understated Marlena Shaw vocal sample (“I want you to get together/put your hands together one time”), trance-state piano lines, and a ride-on-the-rhythm drum program frames solos by trumpeter Pascal Ohse and baritone Claudio de Qeiroz. For “Montego Bay Spleen,” Navarre pairs an angular guitar solo by Ernest Ranglin with a deep-groove dub track, complete with phased effects and echoey percussion. “Land Of…” moves from a Hammond- and horn-led soul-jazz stomp into Caribbean territory, marked by more hints of dub and the expressive Latin percussion of Carneiro. Occasionally, Navarre’s programming (sampled or otherwise) grows a bit repetitious — even for dance fans, to say nothing of the jazzbo crowd attracted by the album’s Blue Note tag. Though it is just another step on the way to a perfect blend of jazz and electronic, Tourist is an excellent one.

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St Germain – St Germain (2015) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44.1kHz]

St. Germain – St. Germain (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 50:58 minutes | 571 MB | Genre: Electronic
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: Qobuz | @ Parlophone France

Without doubt one of the most anticipated albums of 2015. A new record from St Germain! The announcement seems unlikely, as fans of Ludovic Navarre have had to wait for fifteen years to taste a sequel to the famous Tourist, which shook planet electronica as long as fifteen years ago. Obviously, nothing has really changed in the content of this album except for Real Blues, delivered in May, where single spellbinding African rhythms mingled with blues sounds and the voice of the great Lightnin’ Hopkins. Good things come to those who wait. (more…)

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