Artist: Shez Raja |
Date of Release: 01/06/2010 |
Catalogue no: 1828 |
Label: 33 Jazz |
Price: £12
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Track Listing |
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1 | listen | Mystic radikal (ft Claude Deppa) | | 2 | | Chakras on the wall | | 3 | listen | Karmic flow | | 4 | listen | Infatuation (ft Andy Sheppard) | | 5 | | We are one | | 6 | | Soho (ft Claude Deppa) | | 7 | | Angel's tears (ft Andy Sheppard) | | 8 | | Music for elves | | 9 | | Carnival of colours (ft Andy Sheppard) | | 10 | | Quiverwish | | 11 | | Mandala girl (ft Claude Deppa) | | 12 | | Beauty of the beast | |
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Dynamic bass player Shez Raja's third album features one of the UK's foremost saxophonists Andy Sheppard and international trumpet star Claude Deppa. Exciting music that evokes all of the emotions – a mix of euphoric jazz, thundering funk, lyrical ballads and intoxicating grooves. |
Reviews |
06/08/2010 The York Press |
Shez has a masterful way with catchy melodies and his Stanley Clarke-inspired playing leads confidently from the front. A highly satisfying album full of joyful surprises |
26/07/2010 All About Jazz |
Mystic Radikal is an exciting mixture. This is fusion music at its most straightforward and entertaining |
08/07/2010 The Guardian |
This work grows in boldness and variety |
03/07/2010 Yorkshire Evening Post |
Stylish brand of noirish uptempo jazz funk. Raja’s is a global groove, with rock, and world music flourishes thrown in. If you want to hear the bass guitar as something other than a rhythmic underpinning then check out his silky playing on the gorgeous piece Angel’s Tears |
02/07/2010 Manchester Evening News |
An album that scores high on bright tunes, good ideas and individualism. Led by a virtuoso bassist, there’s always some arresting melodic twist and arrangements which are multi-layered and imaginative |
01/07/2010 Fly Global Music |
The CD got me wondering where the Mahavishnu Orchestra would be in 2010 if they’d been led by Jaco Pastorius; Mystic Radikal wouldn’t have been too far away. Yep, it’s that good! |
01/07/2010 The Scotsman |
Bass guitarist Shez Raja brings his Asian roots to bear on his approach to jazz, and adds more besides. The band creates a colourful, accessible blend of electric jazz-fusion. |
23/06/2010 Mike Flynn (Bass Guitar Magazine) |
Catchy hook-laden melodies, spacious arrangements and memorable compositions will doubtless go down a storm at their increasingly frenetic gigs |
16/06/2010 Peter Slavid (UK Jazz Radio) |
A very varied album. Good quality stuff! |
01/06/2010 Roger Thomas (Jazz UK) |
Which is your idea of the F word? UK fusion hasn't gone anywhere much since the hey-day of Roadside Picnic two decades ago, while on a bad day funk seems to have become just another stylistic gesture. Then along comes the Shez Raja Collective, proffering a fine new album with Andy Sheppard and Claude Deppa guesting and a clutch of upcoming dates which not only provide a welcome antidote to both of the above but which rehabilitate the electric bass (again) in the process |
28/05/2010 Wiltshire Times |
Jazz bass as you’ve never heard it before. Experience Shez Raja! |
