Amadeu Casas - The King Is Gone

Album: The King Is Gone
Size: 128,7 MB
Time: 55:42
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2016
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

1. Rockin' And Rollin' (3:17)
2. Never Make Your Move Too Soon (5:30)
3. To Know You Is To Love You (4:58)
4. Ask Me No Question (2:51)
5. Sweet Little Angel (4:10)
6. Hummingbird (5:39)
7. You Upset Me Baby (3:16)
8. Help The Poor (4:51)
9. Everyday I Have The Blues (3:48)
10. Guess Who (4:08)
11. The Thrill Is Gone (5:11)
12. Rock Me Babe (4:31)
13. The King Is Gone (3:25)

Amadeu Casas is a Barcelona musician with an extensive career in the field of the blues. He has been engaged in the most ambitious blues projects at home, as evidenced by being a founding member of the groups like Reunion Blues, Blues Messengers, Slide Company Tandoori and Lenoir. He has participated on numerous occasions at various festivals, both in Catalonia and abroad, such as Blues Festival Cerdanyola, Blues and Rhythms Badalona, Barcelona Jazz Festival, Jazz Festival Getxo (Bilbao), Madrid Jazz Festival, La Bisbal Lissieux Blues Festival (France) to name a few.

Amadeu has collaborated with international musicians like Louisiana Red, Guitar Crusher, Johnny Mars, Philip Walker, Joe "Guitar" Hughes, Hook Herrera and Shirley Johnson. His style, the result of his passionate commitment to the study of the roots of the blues, is a mixture of Texas, Louisiana, Kansas and Chicago blues.

Personnel: Amadeu Casas (guitar, vocals); Gabriel Mastronardi (keyboards); Erxart Casas (guitar); Matías Míguez (bass); Eloi López Oltra (drums); Jaume Badrenas (tenor saxophone); Josep Gomaríz (trumpet); Pere Enguix (trombone).

(Note: Amadeu Casas passed away December 26, 2020.)

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Amadeu Casas, August Tharrats, Nono Fernández - Pocket Concerts

Size: 302 MB
Time: 72:45
File: Flac
Released: 2015
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

1. Moten Swing (6:45)
2. For Sentimental Reasons (5:02)
3. Kidney Stew Blues (6:12)
4. Lonesome (4:51)
5. For You My Love (6:49)
6. Gee Baby (Ain't I Good to You) (6:06)
7. Exactly Like You (3:51)
8. Blues in My Pocket (8:53)
9. Whispering (3:56)
10. When It's Darkness on the Delta (6:01)
11. Frankie and Johnny (8:41)
12. Rossetta (5:33)

The blues scene in Catalonia has such outstanding exponents as the historic Amadeu Casas and August Tharrats, top-notch bluesmen who, solo or with groups such as the legendary Blues Messengers, Tandoori Lenoir, Blues Swing or the Strollin' Band, have seduced authentic top swords of the most proletarian of all African-American genres. If we add to the luxurious understanding of Amadeu Casas and August Tharrats the double bass player Nono Fernández, an impressive swinger who has accompanied figures of blues, jazz and rock'n'roll, the resulting partnership can be reverent. Casas, Tharrats and Fernández will serve us a repertoire of blues and jazz classics, with their own arrangements. Energy and elegance will come together in this high-class partnership.

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Amadeu Casas Strollin' Band - Amadeu Casas Strollin' Band

Year: 2005
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 69:25
Size: 160,3 MB
Styles: Electric blues, jazzy blues
Scans: Front, sleeve, tray

1. Tell Me What's The Reason (2:33)
2. No Worry Blues (5:55)
3. Hootie Blues (2:52)
4. T Bone Jumps Again (2:24)
5. I Want A Little Girl (4:56)
6. She's The No Sleepin'est Woman (5:10)
7. Call It Stormy Monday (5:45)
8. SK Blues (3:44)
9. Here In The Dark (4:36)
10. Is You Or Is You Ain't My Baby (4:15)
11. Railroad Station Blues (4:39)
12. T Bone Shuffle (3:52)
13. Mean Old World (3:44)
14. It's A Low Down Dirty Shame (3:37)
15. Early In The Morning (5:46)
16. Boby Sock Baby (3:13)
17. Strollin' With Bone (2:18)

Amadeu Casas is a Barcelona musician with an extensive career in the field of the blues. He has been engaged in the most ambitious blues projects at home, as evidenced by being a founding member of the groups like Reunion Blues, Blues Messengers, Slide Company Tandoori and Lenoir.

He has participated on numerous occasions at various festivals, both in Catalonia and abroad, such as Blues Festival Cerdanyola, Blues and Rhythms Badalona, Barcelona Jazz Festival, Jazz Festival Getxo (Bilbao), Madrid Jazz Festival, La Bisbal Lissieux Blues Festival (France) to name a few.

Amadeu has collaborated with international musicians like Louisiana Red, Guitar Crusher, Johnny Mars, Philip Walker, Joe "Guitar" Hughes, Hook Herrera and Shirley Johnson. His style, the result of his passionate commitment to the study of the roots of the blues, is a mixture of Texas, Louisiana, Kansas and Chicago blues.

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Various - Pactando Con El Diablo: Homenaje A Robert Johnson

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 78:24
Size: 179.5 MB
Styles: Contemporary blues
Year: 2011
Art: Front

[2:17] 1. Very Pomelo - He Quedat A Les Set
[4:09] 2. The Midnight Travellers - Come On In My Kitchen
[2:39] 3. Songstore - If I Had Possession Over Judgement Day
[4:08] 4. Oskar Benas - Soy Un Animal Rodante
[2:57] 5. The Booty Hunters - Preaching Blues
[4:00] 6. Le Petit Ramon - Love In Vain
[3:05] 7. Caustic Roll Dave - Travelling Riverside Blues
[4:45] 8. En Gran Manel - Tengo Una Mujer Tan Buena
[2:55] 9. Cabo & Chinaski - A Las Cuatro O Mas
[4:43] 10. Blas Picon & Junk Express - Kindhearted Woman Blues
[5:02] 11. Edu Manazas & Whiskey Train - I Believe I'll Dust My Broom
[3:00] 12. Txas Blues & Jose Bluefingers - Polacos (Sweet Home Chicago)
[4:52] 13. A Contra Blues - Come In My Kitchen
[3:21] 14. The Big Hollers - Terraplane Blues
[2:58] 15. Cotton Roots - They're Red Hot
[2:42] 16. Blue Heart - Crossroads Blues
[4:09] 17. Big Mama & The Crazy Blues Band - Last Fair Deal Gone Down
[4:51] 18. The Suitcase Brothers - Preaching Blues (Up Jumped The Devil)
[2:16] 19. Amadeu Casas - From Four Till Late
[2:14] 20. Chino & The Big Bet - Stop Breakin' Down
[4:32] 21. Lone Rhino - Love In Vain
[2:40] 22. Jose Luis Pardo & The Mojo Workers - Stones In My Passway

Es conocido casi por todos la mística y fábula que rodea a Robert Johnson. Al margen de eso, la influencia musical que tiene y ha tenido a lo largo de los años, tanto en artistas del estilo como de otros más alejados, es indudable.

Precisamente eso es lo que ha tratado de mostrar Bad Music, encargado de editar "Pactando con El diablo". Homenaje a Robert Johnson, con un disco que engloba a bandas y músicos de muy diversas características, desde los más cercanos al universo del blues como otros más alejados, dejando claro las raíces tan alargadas de este brillante guitarrista y cantante.

Difícil reseñar canciones concretas de este trabajo que tiene su importancia en la visión poliédrica a la que da forma y la manera tan particular con la que se acercan a las composiciones originales, algunas de ellas míticas ya dentro de la música popular, renunciando casi en la totalidad de los casos a “fotocopiarlas” y sí, en cambio, a reinterpretarlas sin complejos.

Así por ejemplo nos encontramos con una animada versión del “They´re red hot”, pasada al catalán como “He quedat a les set “, interpretada por Very Pomelo, el blues moderno e innovador de Oskar Benash “Soy un animal rodante” (“I’m steady roller man”), el country polvoriento que dan vida Cobo & Chinaski o el tono swing-jazz de Amadeu Casas para interpretar ambos “From four till late”. Unos poco ejemplos del curioso homenaje a una de las guitarras y voces más emblemáticas de la música del diablo.

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Amadeu Casas - 2 albums: Blue Machine / Early Blues Moods (with Myriam Swanson)

Album: Blue Machine
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 61:58
Size: 141.9 MB
Styles: Jazz-blues
Year: 2008
Art: Front

[5:22] 1. Gerard Viatja A Mart
[3:40] 2. Bad John
[5:09] 3. Blue Boogaloo
[7:05] 4. Je T'aime A La Folie
[4:50] 5. Wind Chill
[4:37] 6. Turtle Walk
[7:09] 7. Bluecifer
[4:41] 8. The Holy Ghost
[6:01] 9. El Lido
[6:31] 10. Le Pedalier
[6:49] 11. The Blue Machine

Amadeu Casas, guitar; Aljosa Mutish, tenor sax; Abel Boquera, organ; Nono Fernández, double bass; Esteve Pi, drums.

New adventure by blues guitarist, Amadeu Casas, this time with a line-up of jazz musicians trying to find themselves on common ground where groove and feeling are essential. With direct references to such masters of the genre as Donald Byrd, Booker T & the MG’s, Grant Green and Lou Donaldson, they play their own tunes and some covers.

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Album: Amadeu Casas, Myriam Swanson - Early Blues Moods
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 35:36
Size: 81.5 MB
Styles: Acoustic blues
Year: 2015
Art: Front

[3:30] 1. Hesitation Blues
[3:57] 2. When Death Comes Creeping In Your Room
[3:10] 3. Wild Women Don't Have Blues
[3:26] 4. Love Me
[3:38] 5. Police Dog Blues
[4:09] 6. Evil Devil Blues
[4:32] 7. Blues On The Ceiling
[6:18] 8. My Heavy Load
[2:53] 9. Do I Move You

It is a session that is born of deep respect for the blues as exorcism, an intimate proposal from the liver inside. A guitar, a dobro, a voice and the stellar appearance of the spirits of Big Mama Thornton, Skip James, Tampa Red, Bessie Smith, Charlie Patton, Ma Raney, Robert Johnson and Nina Simone.

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Amadeu Casas - Estrictament Personal

Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 46:45
Size: 107.0 MB
Styles: Contemporary blues
Year: 2002
Art: Front

[4:50] 1. Woatineé
[4:22] 2. Mar De Dubles
[3:29] 3. Maria
[6:57] 4. Això És Amor
[3:15] 5. Tot Va Bé
[6:29] 6. Fins Aviat
[4:32] 7. Per Tu (Joan)
[2:36] 8. Blues Amb Mi
[5:35] 9. Vine!
[3:03] 10. Mica En Mica
[1:33] 11. No Se

Amadeu Casas - Guitarra y voz; Fredy Wort - Piano; Santi Úrsul - Bajo; Caspar St. Charles - Batería.

Amadeu Casas is a self-taught guitarist, specializing in Blues. He has participated in many groups with tradition: Big Mamma and The Blues Messengers, a Go Go Blues, Lluís Coloma Blues All Stars, The Midnight Rockets Max Sunyer, Tandoori Lenoir, and a long list of collaborations.

Blues moderately exposed with elegance and intimacy, but with all the swing and boogie-woogie is needed. Standard rhythms with feeling, played with quiet sensitivity. ~thank you daba for the spanish-to-english translation of the review.

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