. Bo Axelzon & His Exotic Sounds - 1996 - Bo Axelzon & His Exotic Sounds
The 1st release from this new label out of Sweden. A small orchestra
plays Classic & pure Exotica: featuring a nostalgic sound performed
by brass, reeds, bird calls, sitar, percussion, accordian, guitars,
vibes, bongos, congas All original compositions I think. This is really
great!
B1 Elins Blue Eyes 1:58 B2 El Manicero 3:02 B3 Solamente Una Vez 4:56
Personnel: Bo Axelzon: Drums, Percussion Adam Axelzon: Percussion, Bird Calls Curt Landberg: Trumpet Roger Petersson: Valve Trombone Gunnar Ericsson: Tenor Saxophone Stig Bäckström: Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, Bassoon Ebbe Belfrage: Accordion Dick Malm: Accordion, Guitar Gunnar Örtenstrand: Guitar Stefan Kéry: Lap Steele, Sitar, Saz, Guitar Anders Paulsson: Bass Lars Hedström: Bass Recorded at In Deep Studios, Stockholm, Sweden Produced by: Adam Axelzon, Stefan Kéry, Anders Paulsson
What you are hearing now is our interpretation of the famous song
Nature Boy and this is what we do. We try to find music that we can do
as a development between Cuban and Exotic music, a musical form that
goes back to the late 20's and till today, truly in the twilight of
Afro-Cuban and Exotica. For us the music is a really great way of
sweeping away the unexpected dinner party/ cocktail drinking/ blind
date/ married couple/ audience by our musical surge. We like to think
that everyone needs to get away from the pressure in everyday life and
just appear in a musical fantasy were the sun and the surf is always
with you. The backbone of this group consists of two persons, Bo
Axelzon and Adam Axelzon. We are both percussionists and have been
playing music for some time. Between us we have played music from hambo
to fusion. The pictures presented on this site are from different time
periods and different settings, mostly rehearsal pictures but still it
is us. We like to think that we are the only band in Scandinavia who
plays this kind of music. ~From their myspace page
Sleeve Notes : In these days of tension on a world wide scale, and hurry in our daily
tasks, one of our greatest needs is for some means to relax, to find
relief from worry. The answer is found when you encounter Bo Axelzon.
Bosse, his son Adam & their swinging gang of Exotic-nicks give you
a blazing hi-fi display of brass and percussion. Foreign, exotic
instruments appear and dazzle your imagination. You've never
experienced music like this before. This is music to see - on this record there are many new sounds that
will force the listener to create his own word picture. This is music
to feel - as Bo and his gang are careful to provide in their
orchestration the specific feeling of sipping exotic drinks while
gulping in some unbelievably picturesque beauty. To put it with what may well be deceptive simplicity, the rather modest
purpose of this album is to achieve a kind of high fidelity travelouge
- an intention, by the way, that is anounced at the outset by the Saz
and Egyptian drum in "Salome". This whole album, indeed, is as revealing of Bo's resourcefullness as
it is of the various musicians creative inspiration. Basically, indeed,
it betrays nothing more complicated than an urge to provide an
irresistable beat. And that, after all, is the way the drums were meant
to be played. Bo has been beating the skins for such musical dignities
as Charro Pampas, to name just one. This amazing debut album full of contrast and surprises, is an ideal
showcase for the myriad talents of Bo Axelzon and his Exotic Sounds.
The exotic mood music that you´ll hear in this set is right now a
commercial succes as a new pop approach; but there's nothing new under
the sun, as this kind of playing has a long and colorful history that
goes back over a thousand years.
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