The Incognito Traveller - Movements of Migration (2016)

The Incognito Traveller is exploring the world again with Movements of Migration. Enrico Gianfranchi creates The Incognito Traveller in 2003 after a few years producing hip-hop beats for rap artists from the Vancouver underground. After playing DJ sets that varied over time from hip-hop to afrobeat to hard jazz, in clubs in Canada, summer beach lounges in Italy, The Incognito Traveller remixes The Dining Rooms’ Forever’s Not and the song is included on the album Versioni Particolari 2 (Schema Records, 2006). In 2010 César Juárez-Joyner, a recognized contemporary music composer and producer from Mexico, with a particular interest in cultural peculiarities and the exchanges between Old and New World over history joined the project. Now a duo, The Incognito Traveller’s music immediately obtained greater conceptual spectrum and musical maturity. After a few years of much travelling, The Incognito Traveller went back into the studio with fresh ideas and a concept to be explored: how humanity changes internally, physically, spatially, and how those aspects affect each other. The resulting work, Movements of Migration, proposes a view of humans in their spiritual, urban, and rural facets, with no distinctions.

Movements of Migration is a voyage through the various ways humanity changes internally, physically, and spatially, and how those aspects affect each other. People change on the inside and as a result they migrate physically; people move from place to place and the geographical and cultural differences provoke inner migrations. Movements may be social, political, physical, conceptual, and the album is inspired by these and many other shades and definitions of the ideas of "movement" and "migration". A strong focus on beats and rhythms, as well as a warm selection of sounds and samples, provides the musical base for a proper jazz-infused exploration of a world with far too many geographical boundaries.

Aperture and liberty are key concepts that were kept ever-present throughout the recording of the album and can be felt in the notes and words and the spacious breaks with field recordings from various parts of the world to remind the listener about freedom and humanity's constant pursuit of it.

The album retains an intellectual feel, like a voyage of discovery through new worlds and cultures. A classy sheen also seems to permeate the album, as profoundly elegant as a priest in a temple in rural India and as cultured as a gentleman on the street in New York City. Indeed, if the album description could be kept to a few words, it could be: unconventionally chic and intellectual.

Tracklist:
01. Silent NY (4:29)
02. Issues of Exclusion (4:53)
03. How To Send Messages By Smoke (2:19)
04. Calderitas (4:14)
05. Sargassum (4:13)
06. Checkpoint Swinger (3:36)
07. Genevieve (4:51)
08. How to Send Messages by Voice (1:37)
09. Movements of Migration (4:25)
10. Ministers (5:09)
11. Sweet Distribution (4:24)
12. How To Send Messages By Drums (1:48)
13. Paris In Amour (4:50)
14. Absolute (4:22)
15. Moderate Temperatures (4:02)
16. Epilogo (2:11)