Kali. Z. Fasteau / Kidd Jordan
People of the Ninth: New Orleans and the Hurricane 2005
2006 - Flying Note: FNCD 9011 
http://www.kalimuse.com/discography/

* Kali. Z. Fasteau: soprano saxophone, cello, ney,
                    piano, aquasonic (electronics)
* Kidd Jordan: tenor saxophone
* Michael T.A. Thompson: drums, balafon
 
http://www.kalimuse.com/ 
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/kali-z-fasteau-mn0001621631
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidd_Jordan 
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/kidd-jordan-mn0000085989
 
http://www.allmusic.com/artist/michael-ta-thompson-mn0002360229

Recorded on september 25, 2005.
Edited, mixed and mastered by Kali. Z. Fasteau.


Reviews
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By Scott Verrastro 
http://jazztimes.com/articles/18513-people-of-the-ninth-kali-z-fasteau-kidd-jordan-michael-t-a-thompson

With People of the Ninth, Kali Z. Fasteau attains another remarkable
achievement of stylistic and timbral breadth, in a first-time collaboration
with tenor saxophonist (and New Orleans native) Kidd Jordan and percussionist
Michael T.A. Thompson. Fasteau is renowned for mastering a multitude of
instruments and for her ability to improvise within formats ranging from
tightly structured postbop to spontaneous, reductionist free jazz. Here she
opts for piano, cello, soprano sax, Nai flute and Aquasonic (a bowed metal jug)
to convey the struggles and uncertainty—and hopefully, the ultimate
redemption—of the residents of New Orleans’ Ninth Ward, where Jordan and his
family lived amongst thousands of others whose homes became buried under the
Gulf of Mexico.

Recorded in New Orleans on the late night of Sept. 25, 2005, mere weeks after
Hurricane Katrina devastated the city, People of the Ninth sonically transposes
the tumultuous emotions experienced by Jordan as he braved the destruction with
his family, watching others become horrifically neglected and denied. Fasteau
taps deeply into this well of emotion and mania, at times mimicking underwater
sounds with the Aquasonic, creating the illusion of entrapment and
drowning. Jordan’s horn cries for the unfortunate and angrily admonishes the
uncaring. The titles (e.g. “Levees, Lies & Lives,” “Rising Winds,” “Rescue
Denied,” “Concentration Dome”) chronologically tell this tragic tale, and the
music does even more so.

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By AAJ Staff 
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/people-of-the-ninth-new-orleans-and-the-hurricane-2005-kali-z-fasteau-flying-note-records-review-by-aaj-staff.php

By Budd Kopman 
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/people-of-the-ninth-new-orleans-and-the-hurricane-2005-kali-z-fasteau-flying-note-records-review-by-budd-kopman.php

By Grego Applegate Edwards

Por Eduardo Chagas (pt)