VA - Café Roma Vol. 2 - An Italian Jazz & Lounge Experience [2CD Set] (2004)

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Artist: Various Artists
Title: Café Roma Vol. 2 - An Italian Jazz & Lounge Experience
Year Of Release: 2004
Label: Water Music Records [302 060 421 2]
Genre: Downtempo, Nu Jazz, Lounge
Quality: 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks+cue, log)
Total Time: 2:07:01
Total Size: 293 mb / 847 mb
WebSite: Album Preview

Though this budget-priced two-disc compilation is billed as an Italian jazz & lounge experience, you'd be hard-pressed to guess that it has anything to do with Italy based on the music itself, most of which sounds much more Brazilian or Cuban than anything else. A few tracks are actually sung in Italian and credited to Italian musicians, but since a bunch of others are sung in Portuguese, you have to really be paying attention to catch the linguistic switch. Still, what matters here isn't nationality; what matters is whether the music grooves, and that it does. Everything has a jazzy, swinging feel and just a faint whiff of European movie soundtracks from the 1960s, and even if regional favorites like Nicola Conte and Giacomo Bondi are unfamiliar names here in the States, no one with a pulse will be able to resist the hip-swaying charms of much of this program. Among the highlights are a fine adaption of the jazz standard What a Difference a Day Makes, performed by Dynamic 4, and the invigorating (if misspelled) Cosmic Odissey by Spacestar. Things do occasionally get a bit soft in the middle, as on Vibraphile's enervatingly smooth By Night, but for the most part this is stuff that will liven up any party.

:: TRACKLIST ::

Disc 1
1. Nicola Conte & Aldemaro Romero – Teme De La Onda (05:03)
2. Fabio Nobile – Zozoi (feat. Guido Pistocchi & Lorraine Bowen) (04:52)
3. Monorama – Siempre (04:21)
4. Mazachingno – Café Caldo (04:44)
5. De Spira – Good Bye (03:33)
6. Latin Vibe – From Paris To Rio (05:35)
7. Do Mori – Spirit In The Yellow Sound (07:54)
8. Barrière – Ilusoes (feat. Jim Porto & Themis) (03:35)
9. Daniele Luppi – Jet Set (03:35)
10. Time Passing – It's A New Day (05:55)
11. Mazachingno – The Last Flight To Rome (03:51)
12. Vibraphile – By Night (04:33)
13. Urban Chill – Electrostatic (03:40)
14. Cool Water – Magic Soleil (04:27)

Disc 2
1. Bungalove – Maracana' (Main Mix) (04:46)
2. Mona Gadelha – St. Denis Ceara (Panaphonic Remix) (05:00)
3. Pauline London – Fly In The Sky (Main Mix) (04:07)
4. Barrio Jazz Gang – Salsera (Crisp Remix) (05:00)
5. Pauline London – Love Can Sing (04:26)
6. Panaphonic – Espuma Bossa (Bossa-Lounge Cut) (feat. Liliana Gimenez) (04:42)
7. Roby J.C. Sound – Tropical Man's Revenge (04:58)
8. Led – La Clave (04:52)
9. Dynamic 4 – What A Difference A Day Makes (03:34)
10. A Banda Nova – Blues Bossa Balanco (04:42)
11. Barrio Jazz Gang – Spectrum (Radio Edit) (04:24)
12. Spacestar – Cosmic Odissey (05:49)
13. Led – Walkin Sofa (04:49)

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