DISCOGRAPHY - Integration
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1969: Columbia, EMI: SCX 6322 (or SX6322 mono) (LP)……… re-issued on CD July ’04 by Universal music
Ganges (D’Silva, Carr )
Jaipur (D’Silva)
Integration (Rendell, Green, D’Silva)
Maharani (D’Silva)
We Tell You This (Carr, D’silva)
Cry Free (Carr)
Joyce Country (D’Silva)
Amancio D’Silva: Guitar; Ian Carr: Trumpet & Flugelhorn; Don Rendell: Tenor & Soprano Sax; Dave Green: Bass; Trevor Tomkins: Drums
Recorded at Landsdowne Studios, London by Michael Weighell & John Macksmith
Produced by Denis Preston for the Landsdowne Series. 1969, Columbia, EMI. SCX6322
As part of the Impressed Re-pressed series (see Impressed albums below).
Available from all major record stores & Amazon.co.uk, and in the U.S. from Dusty Groove records, and in Japan from HMV Japan
“…the Goan born jazz guitar innovator. A genuine fusion of East and West - a rare and collectable classic reissued for the first time since 1969”. . HMV
A beautiful lost Brit jazz album from guitarist Amanico D'Silva -- recorded in 1969, with a really soulful, funky, Eastern-inspired sound -- helped along in no small part by players Don Rendell and Ian Carr! It's a stunner from the very first note -- D'Silva was educated in Bombay, and the record has deep tinges of the Indian influences, seemingly not as much due to overt instrumention as much as the way the notes naturally dance from one to the next. It's as if that world is simply in D'Silva's blood, and necessarily flows into his pen and his play. Ian's on trumpet and flugelhorn, and Don's on tenor and soprano sax, dancing perfectly within and around D'Silva's compositions. The rest of the line up is fleshed out by Dave Green on bass and Trevor Tompkins on the kit. This CD is one in the Impressed-Repressed series. We're left nearly speechless by this one -- absolutely essential!
Dusty groove Records, Chicago August ‘04
Of all the attempts to bring together jazz and Indian music, this must be one of the most successful. Born in Goa, D'Silva was brought up in the Indian classical tradition, but took to jazz early in life and became a first-rate guitarist. In London during the late 1960s, he got together with British musicians to record three albums, of which this was the first. The ease with which they found common ground is clear from the start of the opening number, 'Ganges', a joint composition by D'Silva and trumpeter Ian Carr, and the remarkable title piece, which is a virtually free improvisation by D'Silva, saxophonist Don Rendell and bassist Dave Green. They strike a perfect balance between the two idioms, and there is none of that phoney 'Eastern' flavouring, featuring sitars and such like, so fashionable at the time. D'Silva plays electric guitar throughout, and the music swings in a completely natural way
Dave Gelly in the Observer, August 15th 2004
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