Longtime Wakeman associate Tony Fernandez, a drummer, gets co-billing on this album of material co-written by the two. Despite this, half of the tracks are slow and simple instrumentals with only light percussion…
Ultra-Lounge is a series of compilation CDs released by Capitol Records, featuring music predominantly from the 1950s and 1960s in genres such as exotica, space age pop, mambo, television theme songs, and lounge. Many of the volumes have since been made available for purchase via digital download. Each CD featured detailed liner notes along with two related drink recipes, tips on how to serve drinks to guests, and often photographs of sculptures made out of bartender items and other objects.
Evidemment lorsqu’on s’appelle Eastwood, le 7e art n’est jamais très loin. Il est même au cœur du bien nommé Cinematic de Kyle Eastwood. Le contrebassiste américain revisite ici exclusivement des musiques de films (Taxi Driver, Bullitt, Charade, Skyfall, Vertiges, La Panthère rose, L’Affaire Thomas Crown…) dont trois réalisés par son illustre père (Gran Torino, Impitoyable et La Sanction). Des thèmes intimement liés à des compositeurs de gros calibre (Lalo Schifrin, Ennio Morricone, Michel Legrand, Bernard Herrmann, Henry Mancini ou bien encore John Williams) et pour certains entrés dans l’inconscient collectif… Classe et classique, son approche raffinée est d’une grande justesse de ton.