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GOLDEN LADY
MEXICAN SPIRITUAL GROOVE
MUSIC : Renzo Djordan - Golden Lady
Music selected in 2014 by mexican female filmmaker MELISSA RAMIREZ ORTEGA for music video CAAV, an AudioVisual Art center in Mexico - South America. An urban instrumental music for a spiritual video.
Music created in 2013 and inspired by Most famous french Urban & Groove producers of the 90s, JIMMY JAY / BOOMBASS & PHILIPPE ZDAR. Music usually composed of samples from soul and Jazz vinyl records and rhythmed in AKAI S1000 / MPC or EMU SP1200 sequencers. Sampling, a musical revolution at the time which brought these producers to expand their musical culture with a constant search for new vinyl records ( crate digging ) and to learn basics of musical composition :
MEXICO
ORIGINAL SAMPLE OF MUSIC TRACK GOLDEN LADY :
In order to shed light on the subject of women representation in activities of cinematographic directing, let's share an achievement by a mexican female director, Tatiana Huezo Sanchez. Film selected in 2022 Cannes film festival, especially in the " un certain regard " category :
ALEKE
SAXOPHONE & AFROFUNK
MUSIC : Renzo Djordan - Aleke
Music inspired exclusively by African Musicians, as part of the 8th electronic album named " ODYSSEY pt II " with ethno and worldmusic influences, as musical travel diary from the 4 corners of the globe.
Music inspired by music film of 1984 french film commercially successful (+6M entries), many French César award nominations, directed by Michel Blanc filmmaker. A working class story located in Paris accompagnied by music of Xalam, an african music band from Senegal which combines traditional instruments with modern jazz & funk sounds as saxophone :
Music Track ALEKE created from different musical elements called African Fusion :
- Electronic Drums and djembe loop. End of the track, Dumbolo drum style - Congo
- Saxophone by Kesja Bijok saxophonist from Krakow - Poland
- Guitare Sebene style from Congolese Music - Rumba music genre.
- Vocalist of the track is a Nigerian Afrofunk singer in New-York based. He has many songs released in indepedent production as spiritual african jazz song " SWEET MOTHER " :
Another musical inspiration is the famous cameroonian saxophonist Manu Dibango and his banger " Soul Makossa ". He spent a part of his career in Parisian jazz clubs and collaborated with artists like Miles Davis, Sting, John Lee and Hugh Masekela. Influenced by James brown and Fela Kuti, he produced a brilliant style mixing jazz funk which led to it being “sampled” by the king of pop Mickeal Jackson. An artist who likes to explore new musical horizons and explains that african music is " linked to legs " :
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