Description
Album by legendary composer and double bassist Francois Rabbath alongside his son, pianist, composer and producer Sylvain Rabbath and featuring guest performances by Keziah Jones, Matthieu Chedid, Victor Wooten, and Laurent de Wilde, Minino Garay. An orchestral journey blending jazz-funk fusion with Middle Eastern jazz influences. Includes original artwork and a printed sleeve by Francois Rabbath himself.
Francois and Sylvain Rabbath have transformed six years of touring into a shared album that patiently and passionately distils a wide array of musical influences gathered from across the globe. Since the early 1960s, Francois Rabbath's double bass has echoed through enough landmark recordings to fill an entire shelf of a record collection. As an arranger, composer, and performer, his impact on music goes far beyond his work with legends like Barbara, Paco Ibanez, Charles Aznavour, or Edith Piaf.
The years they spent gathering visa stamps in their passports were not idle - they became the foundation for 'Amall', the debut album of the Rabbath Electric Orchestra. Every continent, country, and city they crossed provided inspiration, forming a deep well from which their compositions emerged. These travels gave birth to the album's tracks, which found their final form back in the studio - refined, arranged, and enriched with the contributions of Keziah Jones and Mathieu Chedid on guitar, Laurent de Wilde on piano, Victor Wooten on bass, Raphael Imbert on saxophone, and Minino Garay on percussion.
Elevated by lush jazz-soul orchestrations and vivid arrangements of strings, horns, rhythms, and keyboards, the music captures the epic breath of open plains, the restless pulse of city funk, and the electric energy of dark, intimate spaces.
