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Tourist is the third studio album by French producer Ludovic Navarre, released under his stage name St Germain. The album's musical style features a combination of nu jazz[2] and acid jazz,[3] what AllMusic described as "a synthesis of electronics with jazz soloing".[2]

L'album remporte la Victoire de la musique de l' album de musiques lectroniques, Techno ou Nouvelles Tendances en fvrier 2001, devant Champs-lyses de Bob Sinclar et Production de Mirwais.

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I knew nothing about St Germain but saw Tourist atop the jazz charts and without hesitation called to get a copy. An album selling that well that I've never even heard of is reason enough for at least a cursory listen.

Tourist arrived and immediately after putting it on, I realized that this new CD was going to be exploring my mind for a few non-stop weeks as a worldly tourist with plenty of future return engagements. The adventure begins with the energetic seven-minute "Rose Rouge" from which the lyric "I Want You To Get Together" entices a call to action. This sentiment seems to call out to my very own senses, asking them to join together and continue the joyous ride. They hear the beckon and proceed through the graceful chill out number "Montego Bay Spleen" with it's Wes Montgomery guitar noodling (provided eloquently by Jamaican guitarist Ernest Ranglin) and a fat down tempo beat.

So, now you've sunk into a deep melted mood within the inner depths of your mind and the third track "So Flute" busts out and rides the crest of a thick techno and dub infused groove for 8 minutes, leaving you overwhelmed with aural pleasure. From there, we step back again as a saxophone blossoms amidst a swinging hip-hop beat and we're off to "Land of?" before the funky upbeat Brazilian groove on "Latin Note" rescues us with a festive fusionary delight.

Are you with me? If you've ventured this far without any noticeable regret, you will not only be fully immersed as a newfound tourist but will eagerly await the next sonic wave. Will it be subtle or bold or smooth or fat? The answer comes in another one of the album's peaks; track numero six. It is entitled "Sure Thing" which contains elements from "Harry's Philosophy" (Miles Davis and John Lee Hooker) and layers a cool bluesy swirl atop the voice of John Lee Hooker. This cascading groove extends into the momentous dub and techno loops of "Pont Des Arts" and you begin to hope that the tour never ends. But even great things come to an end and after nine sumptuous tracks this tour does too.

Tourist was written, produced & mixed by the mysterious St Germain and he also takes on the role of conductor for the other musicians involved in this project. The songs on Tourist range from five to nine minutes as each one distinctively sets a unique mood, one that usually sweeps you away from the one you were just visiting but with a common thread that awakens an unquenching desire to repeat this process over and over again letting it's luster shine brighter with each successive spin.Will the real St Germain make himself known. First, there's the legend. At the court of Louis XV in 18th Century France, there was a character that amazed everyone by pretending to be several centuries old. He went by the name of Saint Germain. Then there's Ludovic Navarre, a.k.a. Saint Germain and pioneer of the French Touch (the new electronic music of France), who is not pretending in the least. To me, St Germain embodies the essence of the real new proteges of contemporary jazz. Not playing electric versions of the same old thematic jazz but instead incorporating varied styles and sometimes samples as a base and then melding them together with an improvisational series of soundscapes. His mix of techno, jazz, blues, ambient, house and dub seems to transcend the ages and speaks directly to the emotion of your soul.

So, if you enjoy musical hybrids and sound collages that touch upon many distinct moods, then become a Tourist with Ludovic as your faithful guide.Track Listing Rose Rouge / Montego Bay Spleen / So Flute / Land of? / Latin Note / Sure Thing / Pont Des Arts / La Goutte D?or / What You Think About?

First released in 2000, the legendary electronic album Tourist by veteran French DJ and producer St Germain (Ludovic Navarre) has been digitally remastered (44kHz/24bit) for reissue on CD, 180-gram double gatefold vinyl (with download code), and digitally on September 25th by Blue Note/EMI.

St Germain's second album, Tourist achieved the number one position on Billboard's Contemporary Jazz Albums chart, and the album and its creator won France's most prestigious music award, the Victoires de la Musique, in jazz, live performance, and electronic categories (Jazz Discovery of the Year, Live Discovery, and Best Electronic Album). In the Netherlands, the album was honored with three Edison Music Awards (Best Instrumental Album, Best Dance Album, and Best Jazz Album). St Germain was also nominated for Best French Act by the MTV Europe Music Awards and Best Jazz Act by the MOBO Awards.

With more than three million copies sold worldwide, Tourist is an electronic music staple featuring nine evocative, jazz-infused tracks still heard at clubs, restaurants and fashion shows around the world. Diamond-certified in France and Platinum or multi-Platinum in Belgium, Canada, Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, Australia, Austria, Italy, Ireland, Norway, and Portugal, the album is an influential entry in the electronic music genre.

In his four-star Rolling Stone review of the album, David Fricke praised St Germain's skilled electronic-meets-jazz approach: A sly dog with a disciple's touch, Navarre shows respect for the spirit, if not the letter, of classic jazz. He gives his live soloists, including trumpeter Pascal Ohse and saxophonist-flutist Edouard Labor, room to breathe, if not blow wild. Rolling Stone later touted Tourist as one of 2000's best albums.

In December 1995, St Germain became the first electro wave artist to perform onstage with musicians (at the Les Transmusicales in Rennes, France), and he has headlined more than 280 shows around the world. Tourist's release was supported with a sold out international tour which included concerts in France, North America, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Israel, Spain, Portugal, the UK, New Zealand, Australia, Switzerland, Greece, Turkey, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and China.

I never disliked it, I just never paid any attention. Jazz was just an aisle in the record store between the music I liked and the cashier where I paid for it. The only jazz I knew growing up was the Brubeck album Time Out, because my parents had played it a lot when I was a kid.

Ludovic Navarre shakes his head, mystified when I mention the Shinjuku district of Tokyo. This French DJ, musician and producer who currently goes under the nom de disque St Germain has just come from Japan and I have second- guessed he might have raided record shops in fashionably hip Shinjuku as he has during his two-day stop in Auckland.

But no. Just saw the hotel in Japan, one interview after another, he says somewhat grimly.

That's what happens when your albums mix and match live musicians, cross between jazzy styles and reggae, pay homage to black artists and yet captivate cafe and club audiences for their cool beats.

Everyone wants a piece of you, just as they do here.

But it isn't easy for Navarre to offer himself up to journalists. He speaks very little English (and no Japanese) so our conversation about his excellent Tourist album, which followed 95's equally cross-genre success Boulevard and is possibly the most tasteful item in the New Zealand Top 20, is conducted through a translator.

At 30, Navarre has built an impressive track record in France. His discography lists releases under the names Sub System, Deep Side, Soofle, Modus Vivendi, Deep Contest and quite a few others before he settled on St Germain in 95 after encountering a jazz group in Saint Germain en Laye and asked them to realise his music for Boulevard.

That album has sold almost a quarter of a million copies and suddenly Navarre was a Name Player whose Alabama Blues single of 95 anticipated Moby's blues samples on Play.

That series of previous incarnations he explains as necessary because the audiences for various kinds of house have narrow tastes and don't move much beyond their preferred style.

DJs such as himself like all kinds of music but the audience doesn't travel with them on the journey. He wanted all the audiences to get together.

"I used all the names when I moved into different types of music. People categorise so much, producers move around more often than the public," he says with Gallic shrug of bemused frustration.

In that, St Germain was a major breakthrough because although he builds from a platform of being a DJ, it comes from live musicians and acknowledges sounds from the 60s and 70s while feeling entirely contemporary in outlook.

The group he used for both albums, he says, is highly versatile and that is the band he takes out live on the festival circuit around Europe.

"It's an eight or nine-piece band on stage and people are often surprised because they expect little more than a DJ, turntables and samples."

The lengthy gap between Boulevard and Tourist (on the prestigious Blue Note jazz label) was the result of a forced holiday when his former label wouldn't release him from his contract.

But the wait has been worth it: Tourist bristles with ideas taken from jazz history and with the reggae guitar of Ernest Ranglin thrown into sharp focus. The opener, a Brubeck-sounding rapid fire-percussion piece Rose Rouge with the repeated sample-hook "I want you to get together," has become a staple of clubs and cafes.

While he uses samples sparingly he is amused by the suggestion that being on Blue Note gives him access to the jazz catalogue in the manner of US3.

"I'm a little bit more ambitious than that and prefer to use live musicians rather than just take a sample of them," he laughs. "But it is a pleasure to be on the same label as renown jazz musicians."

And that classic Blue Note sound has influenced him, although he concedes it is getting harder to recapture that warmth and closeness as studios become more complex and sophisticated.

His next project is producing an album for St Germain trumpeter Pascal Ohse, he expects to start a new album before the end of the year, and a world tour is scheduled for early next year. He is hopeful New Zealand will be part of it.

The success of St Germain has allowed to him to achieve what he wanted from the start: to bring different audiences together to appreciate "good music, no matter what people call it."

In that light, the sample pumping out of cafes and clubs these past few months now sounds like a mission statement: "I want you to get together."

And, under that banner of St Germain, house followers, acid jazz lovers, Blue Note aficionados and DJs have done just that. be457b7860