Aïré

*Rare original* French project combining flamenco and jazz. The music is reminiscent of recent bands around Ultra High Flamenco, recorded in 1985 at the Centre Autonome D'experimentation Sociale in Ris-Oragis, a suburb south of Paris on the Seine River. It sounds like an extension of sextet, innovatively brought bass, cajón and saxophone to flamenco. It's strange that neither the other works nor this project have attracted much attention, but they are unusually accomplished: the level of performance and the interest of the songs is high throughout the album, including the bold vocals on A1 and A3, which has a lovely fretless bass melody in an arrangement that includes a violin. The mix is a masterpiece with no complaints.