Still Moving
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Justin Adams & Mauro Durante
Still Moving
[ Ponderosa Music Records / CD ]
Release Date: Sunday 29 August 2021
In October 2020, Justin Adams, Whose Post-Punk Approach Has Been En-Riched By A Passion For Arabic And African Trance/Blues, And Mauro Durante, A Visionary Inheritor Of The Taranta Roots Of His Native Puglia Got Together To Make An Intense And Intimate Album: 'Still Moving'.
They Recorded Live In The Studio, Without Overdubs. Together They Found Whatwas Essential In Their Common Sound, Reaching Into Traditional Music From Italy (Folk Songs Like 'Damme La Manu', Classics Like 'Amara Terra Mia') And America ('Little Moses', The Carter Family Classic).
Original Songs, Like 'Dark Road Down' Mix The Wild Pizzica Rhythm Of Southern Italy And Trance Boogie, While 'Djinn Pulse' Goes From Serene Instrumental Minimalism To Hypnotic Catharsis. The Title Song 'Still Moving' Evokes Mediterranean Migration With The Ancient Frame Drum And Raw Electric Guitar Providing A Starkly Beautiful Landscape.
Justin Adams, Guitarist, Producer And Composer, Plays With Robert Plant In His Band, The Sensational Spaceshifters. Justin's Production On Landmark Albums By Tinariwen And Rachid Taha Highlight His Feel For North African Groove, While His Award-Winning Projects With Gambian Maestro Juldeh Camara Linked Griot Tradition With Raw Blues Spirit.
This New Collaboration With Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino Violinist/Percussionist Mauro Durante Stems From A Concert Led By Ludovico Einaudi, The Notte Della Taranta In Puglia, Where The Two First Played Together, Recognising Their Common Ground In The Trance Rhythms Of Taranta. Together They Create A Raw,
Stripped-Back Sound That Moves And Mesmerises.
Aside from being first lieutenant in Robert Plant's band, the Sensational Space Shifters, guitarist Justin Adams boasts a notable history producing luminaries like Malian group Tinariwen, Gambia's Juldeh Camara and, most recently, Puglian ensemble CGS (Canzoniere Grecanico Salentino). Hence this sparky duet with CGS singer, violinist and percussionist Mauro Durante.
Recorded straight to tape with no overdubs, Still Moving proves a thrilling, spontaneous affair, switching between the laments and love songs of southern Italy and the gritty blues of North Africa and North America. Adams is an astonishing player, able to summon a mood of angst with a few reverberating chords of desert blues before a jolt into John Lee Hooker boogie, as he does on opener Dark Road Down, where the two men raise voices against a war-torn world of "trouble and pain". Durante delivers an aching version of Amara Terra Mia, a big Italian hit, a paean to an elemental world of night sky and olive groves. Still Moving describes a Mediterranean sea trek, with days of rowing to an inhospitable shore; half Homer, half modern migrant. There's a blazing rock-out on Calling Up, and, somewhat oddly, a version of Little Moses from the Carter Family's country Bible. A bravura performance. - The Guardian
Tracks:
1 Dark Road Down
2 Amara Terra Mia
3 Talassa
4 Still Moving
5 Djinn Pulse
6 Cupa Cupa
7 Red Earth
8 Calling Up
9 Damme La Manu
10 Volos
11 Little Moses
