St Germain presents Soel
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Jazz and house music producer Ludovic Navarre’s St Germain have been one of the true jazz-meets-dance music successes of the last few years, shifting units in the hundreds of thousands and selling out the likes of Brixton Academy and creating a new tolerance among a mainly leftfield-pop crowd for instrumental music and extended solos.
Without doubt the star of these spectacularly ‘mainstream’ performances was trumpeter Pascal Ohsé’s farsighted solos and it’s now under the guise of Soel that he promotes his Navarre produced debut ‘Memento’ (that borrows as much from Blaxploitation soundtracks as it does Blue Note samples), thus making his Jazz Café debut a treat for both the head and the hips.