Flesh on Flesh

Al Di Meola - Flesh on Flesh

Flesh on Flesh
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Artist: Al Di Meola
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2002-08-27
Music Label: Telarc
Soundtracks:
  1. Zona Desperata
  2. Innamorta
  3. Meninas
  4. Flesh On Flesh
  5. Fugata
  6. Deep And Madly
  7. Saffire Soleil
  8. Senor Mouse

Free Music Notes for Flesh on Flesh

Free Music Review: Seriously In Al's top 5
Hit: 5 Stars

Here is my inevitable "new(ish) Al release" review, here for you to read (or skim over, depending on whether or not it's worth reading). I've done my share of kissing up, and saying that the current Al release is the best ever. I've backed off for a while, delved into newer musical terrorities, and for the last year or so, have kept my palette relatively clean of di Meola's cd's. Now, i've just listened to this album, and it blows me away. The compositions are fantastic, the musicianship is top-of-the-line, and this music is just some of the best you're going to find in the modern jazz market.
This music is seemingly both an extension of di Meola's on-going tribute to Astor Piazolla, as is evidenced by such albums as "The Grande Passion", with its small groups, orchestras, and tango arrangments. Al showed then just how much farther ahead his music can and will progress, by focusing primarily on the music, the emotions behind it, instead of merely the flashy guitar licks. This, my friends, is yet another notch up the ladder.
I feel this to be the musical succesor to the afore-mentioned release, and his album "Kiss My Axe" from roughly 10 years ago. As on those recordings, although the melodic content of the music, along with the gentle progression of the material were the center-pieces, the real treat were the few tunes on 'KmA" where Al took out his classic Les Paul and burned the house down with his solos. He does this on his new album, and trust me, as contradictory it is for me to say that the fast licks arent important, and then to say that they are pivotal.....well, it's well worth the ride. Al can play faster, cleaner, more precise, and more intelligently than many of the others on the scene.
I don't want to point out specific tracks, but will assure that the music is diverse from one track to another. On some, you'll hear the traditional tango, and the next a soft acoustic number. There's a particular few, early on, where the percussion takes on an almost techno kind of rhythm. Al is moving with the times, as always. As much as I love the melodies and the emotional inflection of the notes, as soon as that distorted les paul starts zooming into the soundscape, i'm hooked. Maybe it's a male thing, or something related to the ephiphany I experienced as I walked home that first time listening to "Splendido Hotel".....I don't know. All I can truly say is that Al and his band are among the best, most talented, particularly his percussion section. It's just beyond me to describe it without sounding obsessed.......which, even after the time away from my fanatical Al listening, is still as strong as ever. Fanatic or not, i'm in love with this music. Let's hope for a live album....20 years is too long to wait!

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Ever since he burst on the scene as a teenage member of the fusion group Return to Forever, Al Di Meola has reigned as a guitar god in jazz, flamenco, and world music circles. Those genres are well represented on this disc, with guests Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba, flutist Alejandro Santos, and World Sinfonia members Gumbi Ortiz (percussion) and Mario Parmisano (keyboards). While Di Meola's lightning licks are still in effect, they are tempered by Old World, classically tinged settings with a dash of '70s-style fusion. Chick Corea's "Seņor Mouse" is elegantly reworked, and "Fugata" by the Argentine tango master Astor Piazzolla retains cool and complex contrapuntal lines. Di Meola plays a number of guitars on this date, from a 1958 Les Paul to an Ovation model, but it's all Al Di Meola and it's all good. --Eugene Holley Jr.

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