The Intercontinentals

Infobox Album |
Name = The Intercontinentals
Type = Album
Artist = Bill Frisell


Released = 2003
Recorded =
Genre = Avant-garde jazz
Downtown music
World music
Length =
Label = Elektra Nonesuch
Producer = Lee Townsend
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:3zfoxqtaldae link]
Last album = The Willies
(2002)
This album = The Intercontinentals
(2003)
Next album = Unspeakable
(2004)

"The Intercontinentals" is the sixteenth album by Bill Frisell to be released on the Elektra Nonesuch label. It was released in 2003 and features performances by Frisell, Sidiki Camara, Vinicius Cantuaria, Christos Govetas, Greg Leisz and Jenny Scheinman. [ [http://www.nonesuch.com/albums/the-intercontinentals Nonesuch Records album info] accessed 12 September, 2008.]

Track listing

# "Boubacar" - 6:13
# "Good Old People" - 5:25
# "For Christos" - 6:13
# "Baba Drame" (Traoré) - 5:18
# "Listen" - 6:47
# "Anywhere Road" - 1:52
# "Procissão" (Gil) - 6:43
# "The Young Monk" (Traditional) - 2:23
# "We Are Everywhere" - 7:06
# "Yála" (Govetas) - 5:47
# "Perritos" (Cantuaria) - 4:33
# "Magic" - 5:54
# "Eli" - 4:15
# "Remember" - 1:36

:"All compositions by Bill Frisell except as indicated"

Personnel

*Bill Frisell: electric and acoustic guitars, loops, bass
*Sidiki Camara: calabash, djembe, congas, percussion, vocals
*Vinicius Cantuaria: electric and acoustic guitars,vocals, drums, percussion
*Christos Govetas: oud, vocals, bouzouki
*Greg Leisz: slide guitars, pedal steel guitar
*Jenny Scheinman: violin

References