Savanna Radio : Matt van den Heuvel

Matt van den Heuvel : Savanna Radio.
Mesmerizing, groovy blends of afrobeat, jazz, blues, and more.

Few musical projects that I've come across are as appropriately named as Savanna Radio. Evoking a plethora of sounds and images, the words making up this musical project's appellation paint vivid pictures of things as disparate as watching animals drink as the sun rises on the veldt, to being clustered around a grainy, tinny radio listening to Duke Ellington on a rainy night. There is a wide swath of scope covered here in the title alone, and the music certainly surpasses it with relentless ambition and focus. In some ways the album acts as an aural journey, we start with hints of civilization, rhythmic patterns paying homage to the musical traditions not only of the savanna, but also of the desert, the jungle, and river deltas both Nile and Mississippi. Over the course of the album, the musicians explore a variety of mood tones and styles, ranging far afield of any narrow genre connotation, potentially evoking comparisons to people but ultimately sounding like no one but themselves. Is it funk? Hell yeah it's funky, but this isn't one of those parliament 'everything is on the one' dishes, honey. Is it jazz? You best believe there is a lot of playing on this album to send people back out to the woodshed to get their chops up. Is it Afrobeat? Is it Blues? There are moments where it is both, there are moments where it is neither. It is the sound of a wide open world; a world full of different cultures and beliefs, a world where tradition and technology can exist in a beautifully chaotic balance. The weight of tradition, of progressions a hundred years old and the promise of the future, of untold musical amalgams and hybrids. Forget genre, forget style, forget preconceived notions. Just don't forget to groove - Ray Blum

Songs:

1. Savanna Radio
2. The Leopard
3. Flight
4. Leap of Faith
5. The Jade Figurine
6. Out of the Gates
7. Lily of the Nile
8. A Cry in the Darkest Night
9. Sunshine's Song

Listen to: the entire album.

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Release date: 10/09/2020
Matt van den Heuvel lives in Washington USA

Tagged as: Jazz, Blues, Instrumental Jazz, World Influenced

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