...an ambitious, genre-transcendent musical palette...This is a deeply thoughtful and wildly infectious musical adventure you shouldn't miss!
2021 GRAMMY NOMINATION, Best Immersive Audio Album
Though based in multiple musical realms, pianist Alain Mallet's ambitious Mutt Slang projects coalesce into a world that exudes 'exotic' yet ultimately feels familiar, the roots of its various components meeting somewhere deep within. Sharing the musical landscape with young musicians from Palestine, Brazil, Italy, Israel, Japan, Bulgaria, Panama, Ireland, Puerto Rico and the US, the complexity of their backgrounds - musically, ethnically, and otherwise, permeates the session, suffusing Mallet's compositions with an undeniable energy and life. "Mutt Slang is very much the result of this convergence of all the musics I love, of digging to get to their shared soul and rebuild something fresh, in order to discover where I belong and give others a chance to do the same." - Alain Mallet
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Track Listing
1. Trolls (for Lyle) 5:512. Goya Wonweh (Duality) 7:41
3. Requiem (3 Funerals # 4: Hope) 4:38
4. 3 Funerals #3: Mili 1:57
5. Joy 5:26
6. The Unbreakable Veil 3:53
7. Lace 3:00
8. Hesitation (to the Polka Queens of Shikoku Island) 7:52
9. Listen
10. 3 Funerals #1: Tommy 1:53
11. The Groove
12. Prepare to Stop (6:30 AM) 7:24
13. Water Creatures 7:48
14. 3 Funerals #2: Roberto 4:08
15. Breach (for Jamey) 3:15
16. Ima 4:51
Music and lyrics by Alain Mallet, except: "Water Creatures" by Dana Roth, "Ima" by Nadav Shapira, and "Requiem" music by A. Mallet, lyrics Alex Alvear & A. Mallet
Performers:
Guests:
Anat Cohen - Clarinet
Jamey Haddad - Percussion
Peter Slavov - Upright bass
Jay Ashby - Trombone
RHYTHM
Alain Mallet - Piano, B3, Rhodes, accordion, lead vocals (5,7), electric bass choir (7), electronics, shakers, ocarinas, melodicas
Leandro Pellegrino - Electric guitar (1,2,8,13)
Claudio Ragazzi - Acoustic guitar (3)
Gerry Leonard - Guitar loop (7)
Peter Slavov - Upright bass (except 3,7)
James Heazlewood Dale - Upright bass (7)
Alex Alvear - Electric bass (3), Lead vocals (3)
PERCUSSION
Diego Joaquin Ramirez - Drums (except 5,7)
Abraham Rounds - Drums (5,7)
Jamey Haddad - Percussion (1,5,6,8,12,15,16)
Fabio Pirozzolo - Percussion (principal), Canto 'ncopp'o tammurro (2)
Kan Yanabe - Tambor (8), Pandeiro (2), Frame drum and Riq (3)
Mike Ringquist - Xekere (2)
Manolo Mairena - Xekere, Congas, Bata de la casa (12, 15)
WINDS
Daniel Rotem - Tenor sax
Samuel Batista - Alto sax
Tali Rubinstein - Recorders
Anat Cohen - Clarinet (8,12,14)
Stephen Byth - Clarinet (1), Bass clarinet
Edmar Colon - Soprano sax (15)
Josh Shpak - Trumpet, Flugelhorn
Jay Ashby - Trombone (12)
STRINGS
Layth Sidiq - Violin
Amal Ghulam - Oud
Mike Rivard - Sintir
Vasileios Kostas - Lauto, Vocal (8)
VOCALS
Fabio Pirozzolo - Canto 'ncopp'o tammurro (2), Perc.
Alex Alvear - Lead vocals (3), Electric bass (3)
Alain Mallet - Lead vocals (5,7), keyboards
Marlie Pesek - Lead & background vocals (5)
Vasileios Kostas - Vocal improvisation (8), Lauto
Jamie Smith, Betty Gonzalez, Delfina Cheb Terrab,
Helen Sherrah Davis, Georgia Parker - Spoken words (13)
Delfina Cheb Terrab - Vocals (15)
Ahmad El Haggar - Vocal improvisation (16)
Production Info:
Produced by Alain Mallet
Recorded by Matt Hayes at
Wellspring Sound, Acton, MA, 11/8-10/2018
Additional tracking by Mark Wessel,
Alain Mallet, & Manolo Mairena
Mixed by Elliot Scheiner at Eyeball Studio, CN
Mastered by Darcy Proper, Valhalla Studios, NY
Cover photo by Alain Mallet
Front cover original concept by Isabel Kret
Design & layout by John Bishop
