Revisite

Author: Truffaz, Eric

Format: Import

PartNumber: Revisit

Release Date: 03-05-2011

Details: Those who caught French trumpeter Erik Truffaz’s 2000 release, The Mask–a forward-looking mlange of Miles Davis-influenced cool jazz and acoustic drum & bass grooves–will no doubt want to hear Truffaz’s latest concoction, Revisit. Like The Mask, Revisit is culled from several albums Truffaz and his quartet released in France in the early ’90s: Out of a Dream, The Dawn, and Bending New Corners. But unlike The Mask, which was a compilation of tunes from those albums, Revisit contains seven new remixes that push the original tracks into some impressively varied and innovative terrain. Using mostly the original acoustic performances and blanketing them in a wall of electronic sound, the remixes interestingly play up the electronic aspect of Tru