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ORIENTAL NIGHT FEVER
from 70’s Disco to World Music sounds A project by Hector Zazou/Barbara Eramo/Stefano
Saletti
Born from an idea of Hector Zazou’s with the singer Barbara Eramo
and the multi-instrumentalist Stefano Saletti, the ORIENTAL NIGHT FEVER project is a re-interpretation
of various Disco ‘classics’ from the seventies: I Feel Love by Donna Summer, Y.M.C.A.
by the Village People, Night Fever and Staying Alive by the Bee Gees,
You Make me Feel by Sylvester, Disco Inferno by the Trammps, I Will
Survive by Gloria Gaynor, Heart of Glass by Blondie, I Want your Love
by Chic and Ring my Bell by Anita Ward.
Electronic music
played on traditional Mediterranean and Oriental instruments to create a mix that reinvents 1970s Disco without losing its
original musical energy.
Why did we decide
on this strange and unusual project? Like so many things it was pure chance – explain Barbara Eramo and Stefano Saletti
- Hector wanted to do something with us, but didn’t have any precise ideas. We considered a reworking of Mozart,
then Bach, then Gesualdo and Venosa. When we had finally decided that Gesualdo was what we were looking for (the madrigals
played with oud and darbouka…) we went home to look for some CDs to start us off and were taken by surprise…
“Here's the idea", Hector said. He had the Disco Inferno CD in his hand, the one we had all danced to at New
Year's Eve, reliving the 70's. "With percussion, oud and bouzouki we'll play Disco as if it were World Music". So
we went down to the studio and arranged I Feel Love by Donna Summer, just like that, as if we had never listened to anything
else. This was Hector's genius, his method, his study of sound, which began with some small detail, from the rustle of a leaf,
from a drum tapped on its edge instead of the skin. Then he left us alone to finish the project. And dance to Disco….
The CD was recorded in Rome and mixed
in Paris with Julien Bourdin, the technician with whom Hector Zazou started the work. The violinist Carlo Cossu,
the Indian tabla player Rashmi Bhatt, the Israeli wind instrumentalist Eyal Sela,
the singer Raffaela Siniscalchi, and the double bass player Marco
Loddo also collaborated. The graphics are by Michel Collet, who was also the artist for Zazou’s
record, “In The House Of Mirrors”.
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