10 CORSO COMO V.5-Ares Eros-CONTEMPORARY JAZZ/LOUNGE-CD
VARIOUS ARTISTS
10 Corso Como: Ares Eros
2CD BOX SET
10 Corso Como: Ares Eros [2010]
10 Corso Como Vol.05 - Ares / Eros (2CD)
2CD BOX SET Label: IRMA RECORDS
10 Corso Como manifests in typical bi-polar style; we have already experienced ¿Yin & Yang¿ (2001), ¿Ida & Pingala¿ (2002), ¿North & South¿ (2003) and so on... Often two opposites which, despite themselves, are linkedHere, we have ¿Eros & Ares¿, epitomes from Ancient Greek culture of love and war, two dominant facets of the human condition.
¿ So here, musically, the one complements the other, each subtly changing the other; the calm becomes more edgy, the vibrant becomes more muted.
10 Corso Como music fans must be accustomed by now to the drastic dichotomies that have been chasing each other on the packaging of our compilations for almost ten years. First ¿Yin & Yang¿ (2001), then ¿Ida & Pingala¿ (2002), moreover ¿North & South¿ (2003) and so forth.
The One splits in Two, as we have recalled in the past years, but on the other hand the Two piece together into the One. We always have to go back to the Unity, as it happens in all life affairs and cannot be different in music.
True to this gold principle, for this new collection (the eighth one in the series) we decided to proceed again by polarities. Therefore here are ¿Eros & Ares¿, almost to symbolize the two essential qualities in every human being.
Eros is obviously expression of unconditional Love and for this reason ¿ as already noted down by Hesiod ¿ is endowed with unlimited power. Ares, contrariwise, is the Lord of war, contradiction principle in its hardest and purest form. For the ancient Greek, Ares was a god to distrust all the time, in fact he was always depicted with a wrathful, menacing, fierce expression. But this is not what we should expect from the music on our ¿Ares¿ ¿ including the astonishing ¿Canto Dei Sanfedisti¿ by Ginevra Di Marco. No epitomes of hatred and rage then, but more simply, sound finds more cutting and barbed than others, that can even bring to light, thanks to Eros¿ vital help, a softly suave trait. And in this case too, as we said before, the Two piece together into the One.
CD 1: ARES 1--------------------------- 2010
GINEVRA DI MARCO 1.01 Il Canto dei Sanfedisti NATALIE MERCHANT 1.02 This House is on Fire RABIH ABOU-KHALIL 1.03 Como Um Rio LILA DOWNS 1.04 La Cumbia del Mole VIEUX FARKA TOURE' 1.05 Bullet the Blue ENDRESEN & WESSELTOFT 1.06 Heartbeat AMANA MELOME' 1.07 Nao Falo UNITED PEACE VOICES 1.08 Ye Dharma CARADEFUEGO 1.09 Mimbre Tierno ARCOIRIS 1.10 Coco Joao NU BRAZ 1.11 Serrado AARON TESSER & THE NEW JAZZ AFFAIR 1.12 Everlasting Rose WILSON SIMONAL 1.13 Nem Vem Que Nao Tem YMA SUMAC 1.14 Bo Mambo
CD 2: ARES 2--------------------------- 2010
MARLENE KUNTZ 2.01 Alle prese con una verde milonga NATACHA ATLAS 2.02 Black is the Colour GEOFFREY ORYEMA 2.03 Land of Anaka WALDEMAR BASTOS 2.04 Love is Blindness DELMAR BROWN 2.05 Fragile BUIKA 2.06 La Falsa Moneda GHETONIA 2.07 Mavro Ce Skotino' OHM GURU 2.08 This is your life MUSETTA 2.09 Catch 22 CAETANO VELOSO 2.10 Circulado de Fulo BETH CARVALHO 2.11 Danca de Solidao SINEAD O'CONNOR 2.12 How Insensitive ANGELICA & JANA 2.13 Acqua di Marzo THE PLATTERS 2.14 The Great Pretender