Awek - Awek

Size: 154.7 MB
Time: 66:23
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2021
Styles: Electric Blues, Harmonica Blues
Art: Front

01. We Gonna Make It Through (5:34)
02. Bring It On (4:57)
03. She's All Mine (4:57)
04. Smoking Mambo (4:00)
05. Goin' Away Babe (3:53)
06. Black Night (5:37)
07. Gumbo Blues (2:57)
08. I Like To Be Alone (5:08)
09. Wink Of An Eye (4:15)
10. Beer O'clock (2:58)
11. Just Got To Know (4:44)
12. The Healer (5:15)
13. The Dream (3:38)
14. Tell Me What's The Reason (4:04)
15. I'm Staying Home (4:12)
16. Gong (0:08)

"Bernard Sellam is in possession of a gruff enough blues voice to go along with his imaginative skills on guitar. Stephane Bertolino's in your face harmonica playing is at no loss at delivering a slew of inventive runs. AWEK's rhythm section of Joel Ferron on bass and Olivier Trebel on drums is up on the task and following the guys at every turn. Every song is chock full of great guitar and harmonica riffing.
True blues lovers will be in blues heaven."

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Awek - Messin' With The Blues

Size: 138,3 MB
Time: 59:20
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2004
Styles: Electric Blues
Art: Full

01. Don't Do It (5:03)
02. He's Fat (5:10)
03. Listen Pretty Babe (5:07)
04. Shake That Thing (3:40)
05. My Lil' Sister (4:12)
06. Early In The Morning (6:07)
07. I'm So Tired (3:58)
08. The Girl I've Found (6:07)
09. Voodoo Man (6:46)
10. Boogie Please My Mind (5:14)
11. I Move Along (Live) (7:53)

In Toulouse, there is a new oddity on the up and up, a phenomenon which is much more pleasurable than the Capitole, aeronautical construction, rugby or cassoulet, the other local specialities. I mean the group Awek, who have become the talk of the town within the Blues microcosm, which was in serious need of a face-lift. With 5 albums and 10 years’ experience behind them, spreading the good word of the little blue note, Awek have acquired a strength and maturity worthy of their peers on the other side of the Atlantic. Their musical style is an explosive cocktail, a melting pot of groove and feelings, mingling classicism and originality, passion and soberness, orthodoxy and personal impressions…

Dressed up to the nines, like hoodlums from down-town Chicago, Fabulous Thunderbirds style, or die-hard Mafiosi, ready for a lead role in Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs, it’s a treat for the ear-drums and the brain-cells to see them on stage, with their sensitive blues always on target. Awek play an authentic blues, echoing the juke joints and smoky bars of Jackson, Mississippi. But at the same time, a personal and multicoloured blues, light-years away from dull facsimiles.

Understandably elected best blues group in 2004, the group work abroad now and have just got back from a tour in Quebec, where they were hailed as a real revelation. Their last opus, entitled “Just pick up the pieces”, is definitely the most accomplished and mature yet, coming close to the state of grace. You never emerge unscathed, when, one ebony black night, you cross the path of Awek and their tribal blues. ~Serge Sciboz

Messin' With The Blues

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Awek - Let's Party Down

Size: 137,0+166.5 MB
Time: 58:14+71:08
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2019
Styles: Electric Blues, Harmonica Blues
Art: Full

CD 1:
01. Every Time (Feat. Chris Burns) (4:40)
02. Want You To Be My Girl (Feat. Kid Andersen) (4:12)
03. Snake Boy (Feat. Bob Welsh) (4:50)
04. Can't Stop Thinking (Feat. Drew Davies & Rusty Zinn) (3:30)
05. Let's Party Down (Feat. Kid Andersen) (3:46)
06. She's Messing Around (Feat. Chris Burns) (4:23)
07. Don't Want To Lose You (Feat. Bob Welsh) (4:59)
08. Early Every Morning (Feat. Rusty Zinn) (3:12)
09. Come On In This House (Feat. Bob Welsh) (4:19)
10. Margarita (Feat. Chris Burns) (3:23)
11. Feel So Cold (Feat. Rusty Zinn) (5:51)
12. Oh Cherie (Feat. Bob Welsh & Rw Grigsby) (3:10)
13. Here I Am Again (Feat. Kid Andersen) (4:02)
14. I've Been Waiting (Feat. Bob Welsh) (3:53)

CD 2:
01. I Aprreciate (5:57)
02. Sugar Coated Love (3:23)
03. In My Kitchen (5:14)
04. He's Fat (5:17)
05. A Place Where I Can Hide (3:51)
06. Telephone Blues (6:28)
07. Walter's Mood (4:01)
08. Drive An Automatic (4:46)
09. Gotta Find My Baby (6:06)
10. Allons Bouger (5:25)
11. Sweet Little Angel (7:10)
12. If The Sea Was Whiskey (Feat. Nicolas Cassagneau) (4:27)
13. Sunshine In My Bedroom (6:05)
14. Honky Tonk Blues (2:52)

Awek are among the best blues France has to offer! The new 2019 album comes in a double pack and tells the story of the band on the second CD on 14 rare songs, starting with their first studio recording in 1995!

These guys do not imitate anyone any more than they pretend to feel this music: they sweat it with the same naturalness and legitimacy as any other international blues first-league artist, to which they belong of right. From then on, the list of guests who came to join them seems even more obvious: besides Rusty Zinn, Drew Davies and Bob Welsh, their host and producer Kid Andersen also gives himself his featuring. For it is indeed at this San Diego wizard, in his studios Greaseland, that AWEK has just recorded his new album. Just like Tommy Castro, the Nightcats and Rockin 'Johnny before, yes. More than ever swing and class, the aerobatic rhythm that lavish Joël Ferron and Olivier Trebel unrolls the track of ad hoc takeoff for the two soloists, Bernard Sellam and Stéphane Bertolino (here at the top of their art in all circumstances). To better appreciate if necessary the extent of the path traveled since their debut, our friends offer as a bonus a full bonus of choice cuts from their concerts from 1995 to 2017. This double CD carries its title: Fiesta on all floors, and a damn classic moreover...!

Let's Party Down

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Awek - 3 albums: Just Pick Up The Pieces / Rich & Famous / It's Rollin'

In Toulouse, there is a new oddity on the up and up, a phenomenon which is much more pleasurable than the Capitole, aeronautical construction, rugby or cassoulet, the other local specialities. I mean the group Awek, who have become the talk of the town within the Blues microcosm, which was in serious need of a face-lift. With 5 albums and 10 years’ experience behind them, spreading the good word of the little blue note, Awek have acquired a strength and maturity worthy of their peers on the other side of the Atlantic. Their musical style is an explosive cocktail, a melting pot of groove and feelings, mingling classicism and originality, passion and soberness, orthodoxy and personal impressions…

Dressed up to the nines, like hoodlums from down-town Chicago, Fabulous Thunderbirds style, or die-hard Mafiosi, ready for a lead role in Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs, it’s a treat for the ear-drums and the brain-cells to see them on stage, with their sensitive blues always on target. Awek play an authentic blues, echoing the juke joints and smoky bars of Jackson, Mississippi. But at the same time, a personal and multicoloured blues, light-years away from dull facsimiles.

Understandably elected best blues group in 2004, the group work abroad now and have just got back from a tour in Quebec, where they were hailed as a real revelation. Their last opus, entitled “Just pick up the pieces”, is definitely the most accomplished and mature yet, coming close to the state of grace. You never emerge unscathed, when, one ebony black night, you cross the path of Awek and their tribal blues. ~Serge Sciboz

Bernard SELLAM vocals, guitars; Joël FERRON bass; Olivier TREBEL drums; Stéphane BERTOLINO harmonica.

Album: Just Pick Up The Pieces
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 65:11
Size: 149.2 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[3:40] 1. Everything I Do Is Wrong
[2:31] 2. Hot Dog Boogie
[4:14] 3. I Gave You Money
[3:35] 4. Road Band
[5:21] 5. She Don't Live By My Side
[5:32] 6. What's Gonna Happened To Me
[3:25] 7. Tired To Be Lonesome
[4:46] 8. The Thing I Used To Do
[6:15] 9. The Girl I've Found
[7:14] 10. Someday After A While
[8:08] 11. Got My Mojo Working
[4:39] 12. Listen Pretty Baby
[5:46] 13. Flamenco Dancer

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Album: Rich & Famous
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 63:16
Size: 144.8 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2012
Art: Front

[4:56] 1. She Turns Me On
[4:27] 2. I Appreciate
[6:22] 3. I Wanna Be Your Man
[3:04] 4. A Place Where I Can Hide
[4:32] 5. Gone Too Long
[4:27] 6. It Hurts Me
[3:24] 7. My Boss
[4:05] 8. Sound Check
[3:58] 9. Tell Me Now Tell Me How
[3:33] 10. I Don't Mind
[2:43] 11. Give Me Time To Explain
[3:48] 12. Drive An Automatic
[3:01] 13. I'm Not In Love With You
[4:10] 14. Three Seconds
[3:22] 15. Papa Loonies Blues
[3:15] 16. Quite That Job

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Album: It's Rollin'
Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 58:42
Size: 134.4 MB
Styles: Electric blues
Year: 2013
Art: Front

[2:53] 1. Let's Rock
[3:58] 2. I Cry All Day Long
[4:52] 3. Play With Me
[4:02] 4. You Think
[5:54] 5. Hush Your Mouth
[4:36] 6. Magic Night
[2:40] 7. Walters Mood
[6:10] 8. Telephone Blues
[3:40] 9. My Sleepy Girl
[4:06] 10. Be A Good Man
[3:25] 11. Queen Of My Night
[3:43] 12. If I Had To Tell You
[4:28] 13. Mind Your Step
[4:08] 14. Looking For You Pretty Mama

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