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St. Germain: Refueling His Passion
by Nenad Georgievski
This article was translated from French. Every once in a while a new album will force you to reconfigure and re-evaluate all of the definitions and assumptions one has had about music in order to realize how vast and endless the possibilities of music can be. When it comes to producer and composer Ludovic Navarre it's a case of three albums which have shown the endless possibilities of electronic music and the endless horizons it can and has ...
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by Nenad Georgievski
There are really a handful of artists that are as eclectic as producer/DJ Ludovic Navarre and which have managed to enjoy major chart success. Navarre, better known under the moniker St. Germain, has created a seamless blend of jazz and deep house that captured the imagination of listeners worldwide with the release of the seminal album Tourist. The album was not just simple electronic music using samples or fusing elements from jazz and marrying them with dance beats, but it ...
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by AAJ Staff
Whether chilling out, working out or getting down, the latest mix from one of Blue Note's boldest imports has the stuff to get it to ya.
From the peppy five take of the opening single Rose Rogue" to the Hammond-ed gospel of Land of'" and the frenetic bourre of So Flute," St. Germain guides brave aural tourists through a wild ride through the many sides of jazz. The riddims of Montego Bay Spleen" are pure dance hall, while the rhythms ...
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by David Adler
The attempt to blur and redefine genres by combining techno and jazz began roughly 10 years ago, and French DJ St. Germain (aka Ludovic Navarre) has become one of the more celebrated practitioners of the very young art form. A risk that goes with this territory is that in the hope of pleasing techno and jazz fans, one may simply alienate both. Thus was the music on Tourist recently dismissed in the Village Voice as NPR techno." Presumably, for someone ...
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by Rob Evanoff
Picking a favorite album each year is an exhausting emotional process and always creates much controversy within my mind and this year was no exception. Picking a favorite album is not based on just artistic merit but also how that album integrates itself into my life. 2000 represented a transition in my life, a journey of sorts and what better way to represent the soundtrack to your life than with a deft eclectic musical voyage. Overall, my favorite albums of ...
read moreBobby Jaspar: Club St. Germain
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
\For me, the only tenor saxophonist who rivals Stan Getz in tone, improvisation and phrasing is Bobby Jaspar. The Belgian saxophonist and flutist had a singular cool approach and, like Getz, loved the high register of his instrument. In 1955, on December 27 and 29, Jaspar and his All Stars were recorded at Club St. Germain, a basement venue in Paris at 13 rue Saint-Benoît on the Left Bank. Jaspar (ts,fl) was backed by Rene Urtreger (p) Sacha Distel (g) ...
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St Germain Announces First Album In 15 Years
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Matt Gross
NONESUCH RECORDS TO RELEASE FIRST ALBUM IN 15 YEARS FROM FRENCH ELECTRONIC ARTIST ST GERMAIN St Germain (aka Ludovic Navarre), whose albums Boulevard (1995) and Tourist (2000) originated a genre of French electronic music that later included artists like Daft Punk, has returned to the studio to create his first album in 15 years. The self-titled record marries percussive grooves, which have always been central to St Germain’s sound, with a new element: traditional Malian music. Today the artist reveals ...
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St. Germain Boulevard: New Version, the Complete Series
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All About Jazz
Welcome to St. Germain Academy.
Your esteemed professor, Ludovic Navarre will be teaching you the history of jazz and soul’s nuanced and subtle connection to underground deep house. Boulevard will be your textbook, so pop it in your player and listen up.
Originally released overseas in 1995, Boulevard served as a cornerstone for a legion of artists and producers seeking to explore house music’s organic roots. A groundbreaking pioneer of the French Touch," Ludovic Navarre’s undeniable influence is heard in ...
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