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近年のなかでも最高のカリビアン復刻! マリオ・カノンジュやアラン・ジャン・マリーも参加した1982年のクレオール・ジャズ最高峰がついにヴァイナル復刻!!! レアグルーヴ~ニューエイジ的な観点はもちろん、ジャズとしても超一級の内容を誇るトンデモナイ復刻です!

MUSIC FROM MEMORY諸作~ドン・チェリーらエスノ・ジャズにも通じるバレアリックな魅力放つ "Kosmos"、80sのウルグアイに残されたカンドンベ・ジャズかと聴き紛う壮大な "Karibean Suite "、マリオ・カノンジュら当時最高峰の面々による鬼気迫る演奏が堪能できる "Kominike" ...。レアグルーヴやバレアリック的な観点で知られざるクレオールジャズ~フレンチ・カリビアンものの復刻が盛んですが、これはジャズ的なイディオムでも超一級の内容と、まったくスキのない一枚。こんなすごい作品が未復刻だったなんて....! 鳥肌が止まりません!!!!!!

Alto Saxophone – Pierre Labor
Drums – Claude Vamur
Percussion – Mario Pierrelas (tracks: A3, A4, B3, B4)
Percussion [Ka] – Hector Ficadière (tracks: A1, A2, B1), Mario Pierrelas
Piano – Alain Jean-Marie
Piano, Percussion [Ti Bwa] – Mario Canonge
Synthesizer – Alain Jean-Marie (tracks: A4, B2 to B4)
Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – Edouard Labor
Vocals, Bass, Berimbau – Serge Fabriano
Vocals, Bells, Bongos, Percussion [Ka], Percussion [Small], Triangle – Roger Raspail
Vocals, Bells, Whistle, Percussion [Ka, Ti Bwa, Calebasse] – Sully Cally
Vocals, Percussion [Calebasse] – Marie-Reine Lamoureux
Vocals, Percussion [Ti Bwa] – Marie-Céline Lafontaine





SUPER deep Afro cuban / jazz album with the Gwo Ka deeply embedded, concieved by the Caribbean’s most inspired musicians. One of the greatest to emerge from the French West Indies.. Listen to Kosmos I/II and you'll know why...
"I used to live in rue de Clignancourt, and remember as a kid going to the 14th of July West Indian ball organized by my father rue André Del Sartre in Montmartre every year. There I would meet, among others, saxophonist Robert Mavounzy. Sticking to the area, my older brother had a band and often played at the famous venue La Cigale, where even Henri Salvador joined him for a jam from time to time."
Since childhood Serge Fabriano bathed in music, to-ing and fro-ing between his native Guadeloupe and Paris where he grew up. He attended the music conservatory, learnt how to play bass, met and played with many musicians and was ultimately angling for a career as a music teacher. But Serge had wanderlust; he lived to meet new people and was passionate about travel.
Thus, it was in a squat located rue de Flandres in the 19th district of Paris that Serge Fabriano met by chance zarb player Djamchid Chemirami, one of Iran’s greatest percussionists, who invited him to the Arts Festival of Shiraz-Persepolis. After a month-long motorcycle journey, he and his guitar teacher, Roger Bénichou, arrived in Tehran. Sadly their guitars didn’t survive the journey. It was there that he met, among others, Woody Shaw, Max Roach and his wife Abbey Lincoln. Serge also formed a friendship with saxophonist Gary Bartz and stayed on a month playing with the cream of the musicians who’d attended to the Festival.
During the mid-70's, he alternated between teaching classes and live gigs, and performed in Germany with a funk band comprised of ex-GIs from the US Army. He also met the members of Chick Corea's group, Return to Forever, and especially Stanley Clarke who became a great source of inspiration to him.
From 1978 onwards, Serge Fabriano put aside teaching and devoted more time to music. He became a musician’s musician, doing studio recordings with rock bands. He also played with members of the Caribbean diaspora, which included the great drummer Marcel Lollia (known as Velo), Patrick Jean-Marie, Guy Conquette, Winston Berkley, Mino Cinelu.
During the "Ayatollah Comédie" musical comedy tour organized by the Journal Liberation, Serge met actor Pierre Clémenti (Il Gattopardo, Belle De Jour, The Conformist). This was a game-changer : "I was trying to record my first record. Clémenti suggested the Studio Beaubourg in Paris. "
The group Fabriano Fuzion - Fabriano Unit Zion - was born.
The band brought together some of the Caribbean’s most inspired musicians: Martinican-born Mario Canonge on the piano (his first appearance on an album), Alain-Jean Marie on the synthesizer, Edouard and Pierre Labor on saxophones, Claude Vamur (Kassav ') on the drums, singer/percussionists Marie-Reine Lamoureux and Marie-Céline Lafontaine, percussionists Roger Raspail, Sully Cally and Hector Ficadière (Tumblack, Vent Levé) on Ka percussions.
It is precisely the Gwo Ka - this ancestral “root” music deeply embedded in the heart of the Guadeloupe musician - which constitutes the rhythmic backbone of this first opus. The Gwo Ka, the jazz, the poetry and the spiritual vibe are gathered here to form a splendid album; one of the true masterpieces to emerge from the French West Indies. Rarely will a band have borne its name so well than Fabriano Fuzion - its music is a multiple and collective work in which each element brings its identity and its richness, conferring to this major work a truly fusional dimension.