St. Germain

St Germain - St. Germain
Critic Score
Based on 7 reviews
2015 Ratings: #561 / 1021
User Score
Based on 16 ratings
Liked by 1 person
October 9, 2015 / Release Date
LP / Format
Nonesuch / Label
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90

Why the African sound? Because house music is black music. And jazz music is also black music! St Germain is going back to the deepest roots finding out that his nu jazz/ deep house fusion owes everything to Africa, in one way or another.

Best tracks: Real blues, Sittin here, How dare you

100

I love when house and electronica musicians make mid-late career experimental retrospective albums that plume the deep history of dance music and deconstruct the origins of their sound, before the club scenes from which they originated. This type of album proliferated a lot in the 2010s, and gave us a handful of absolute unimpeachable masterpieces. I think St Germain's self titled should be included. This is a set of 8 collaborations with Malian artists, and the grooves are just fantastic. The ... read more

daFigz
58

St Germain AKA Ludovic Navarre makes fairly tame music with conventional electronic coloring with hints of jazz that in certain circles has its appeal. With this S/T release the added World component of Malian musicians stirs the pot, but, only a bit. Nothing to get excited about. Frankly, the World sound finding its way into European or US recordings has been so overdone now that it's a bit surprising to see this cat trying his hand at the format in 2015. It's been suggested that you could ... read more

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Track List

  1. Real Blues
  2. Sittin' Here
  3. Hanky-Panky
  4. Voilà
  5. Family Tree
  6. How Dare You
  7. Mary L.
  8. Forget Me Not

Year End Lists

#24/Mixmag
#71/Crack Magazine
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Added on: June 11, 2015