Simbiosi

The Gramophone Allstars

CD - 2010

Simbiosi blends, with elegance and sophisticated arrangements, TGA’s own compositions, some soul covers and, mostly, jazz standards versions. However, there is also room for improvisation. After one year and a half of hard work, the band has recorded a studio album playing live, all together, as the jazz band’s tradition.

Raised as a tribute to the vinyl, Simbiosi is divided in two different “sides” which have a different personality, separated by and short improvised interlude. The first “side”, Aromes Jamaicanes (Jamaican Flavor), is TGA’s Jamaican face, the music they are devoted to since they started as a band, while the second side, Atmosferes Jazzisitiques (Jazzy Atmospheres), represents a personal part, more singular, with a lot of jazz harmonies, refined arrangements and wicked solos, without losing the Jamaican feeling.