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Jean-Luc Ponty 10/05/1991

SHOWID 455649

Set I

Mum Mai
Saca Saca
Fan Mote
Kono
Munamboa
Yeke Yeke
Open Mind
Baba Kol
Elephants In Love
Toccola
Chakata (Fela Kuti)
Rum And Zouc
Bottle Bot

Set II

 

Set III

 

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Jean-Luc Ponty and Africa Project

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Ron A (5/4.5) Flac / 1 A View  
Jack Warner (5/5) FLAC / 0 View   MAC>C>FLAC
Grotesque Jason (4/5) cdr flac / 2 a a- View   1st generation audience tape lineage: Naka. CM-100 mikes (maybe 300's?) > Sony D-5...
Notes: Jean-Luc Ponty and Africa Project Berklee Performance Center Boston, Mass. U.S.A. October 5, 1991 (1st show of 2) performance quality: A (very good) recording quality: B+ (ditto) source: 1st generation audience tape lineage: Naka. CM-100 mikes (maybe 300's?) > Sony D-5 cassette deck (dolby off) > master cassettes > my cassettes (copied Naka. to Naka. no dolby, both Maxell XLII-S) > soundforge 4.5 > FLAC 6 > torrent. A Stud Muffin Production. Even for the Doctor, this is one fine recording. A You Are There production, for sure. setlist: disc 1 55:44 1: mum mai 2: saca saca 3: fan mote 4: kono 5: munamboa 6: yeke yeke disc 2 64:05 7: band introductions 8: open mind 9: baba kol 10: elephants in love 11: toccola 12: chakata (Fela Kuti) 13: rum and zouc 14: bottle bot comments: This is the complete 1st of 2 sold-out shows from Boston with Africa Project, a fine performance and a great recording. There is some background noise when Ponty is talking, but none when the music is playing, everything comes through, well, like a Stud Muffin Production. I know the Doctor likes Ponty alot, and has shared a couple of his great recordings with me. This is one of his best of all, I think. No music is cut, both flips were between songs and unlike some who gave me recordings on cassette, he usually makes sure to give me the whole thing complete as he has it. Haven't seen the Doctor (or any doctor) in years, hope he's doing well and seeing (recording) lots of Clapton, McLaughlin and Roxy Music concerts. I did not do any fade in or fade out in this except at the end of the concert, so if you save to DAT or disc, you won't lose any continuity on this. There are several places you can break this up (without editing or awkward start to disc 2) if burning to disc and want different break point. Ponty talks about the music before most of these songs, explaining the origin and inspiration behind them, and the tracking of each song begins where that talk begins, not where the song begins as I sometimes do instead. All the new songs of this tour (all but 3 in this concert) have African names (so too the musicians in this tour) and my spelling here may be wrong on some or all of them. This was the tour of the CD "Toccota" and all the music is of African influence, a very new direction for Jean-Luc Ponty music and in this show anyway, a very good one. Since their names are all African and I was not able to figure out correct spelling, I haven't listed them (even though I prefer to list all players of a band when I can), I didn't try to list them, but Jean-Luc introduces them and as I always do when a band introduces their players, I put a seperate "band introductions" track in the file so you can hear for yourself who is playing with Ponty in this unique and very interesting collaberation. There are a few "familiar" Ponty songs but most of it is about African culture, very different for him musically and as is so often true of Ponty music, this is not the same old thing as yesterday. Ponty's never done anything like this before or since, I've never heard his other bands play any of the "toccola" music he was promoting on this tour. I doubt any of his other bands could play it. So if you didn't hear this tour, and like the "Toccola" CD, here's another chance to hear a really nice recording and show of the Africa Project. The talking about it is rather quiet, tough to hear clearly, but all the music comes through strong.
Rich (3/5) CD / 2 B+ View  
Notes: Aud.
Joe the Troll (3/0) / 0 View  
OBIE (2/5) FLAC / 1 View  
Jeff Kaisershot (1/5) FLAC / 0 A View   Naka. CM-100 mikes (maybe 300's?) > Sony D-5 cassette deck (dolby off) > master cassettes >...
Pat (0/4.8) Flac 16 / 2 View   AUD
Notes: source: 1st generation audience tape lineage: Naka. CM-100 mikes (maybe 300's?) > Sony D-5 cassette deck (dolby off) > master cassettes > my cassettes (copied Naka. to Naka. no dolby, both Maxell XLII-S) > soundforge 4.5 > FLAC 6