Name: Django-Shift
Brand: Rez Abbasi

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

WR4762LP

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Colour

black

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Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2020-08-28

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Proper

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

0630808828836

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

WR4762

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0630808828829

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Rez Abbasi

Genre GB

Jazz

Label GB

Whirlwind Recordings

Rez Abbasi has established an enviable reputation over the course of his fourteen album releases as leader: not simply as one of the finest guitarists of his generation, but also as a musical alchemist with the ability to parlay his continent-crossing range of influences into consistently fresh and innovative compositions and reframings of the tradition. His deep musicality has been applied with equal conviction to contemporary New York acoustic jazz, the Qawwali and Indian Classical traditions of South Asia and the heady fusion sounds of the 1970s, each time applying the filter of his own musical personality to deliver inimitable results.

Commissioned to present a project on Django Reinhardt from the Freight &amp; Salvage's Django Festival in California, he boldly redefined his engagement by turning the focus away from Django, the codifier of the Sinti guitar vocabulary, and onto Django, the composer. Abbasi has kept Djangos' melodies intact and then infused each piece with his own compositional voice, adding elements of metric and harmonic expansion and allowing his collaborators room to add their own personalities to the mix.

These unique interpretations, alive with imaginative compositional interpolations and inspired improvisations, reframe this timeless music for the modern age.

Django-Shift

Music GB