Tourist é um marco da música electrónica do ano 2000 pelo DJ e produtor veterano St Germain (Ludovic Navarre), com nove faixas evocativas de sonoridades jazz que ainda passam nos clubs e eventos de moda pelo mundo. Depois de mais de três milhões de unidades vendidas em todo o mundo, este disco é uma influência vital no género da música electrónica de jazz-fusão.

Blue Note's electronic jazz 2000 release Tourist, the second full-length by veteran French DJ and producer St. Germain (Ludovic Navarre), achieved the #1 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).

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 and rightfully so!

"Since the advent of acid jazz in the mid-'80s, the many electronic-jazz hybrids to come down the pipe have steadily grown more mature, closer to a balanced fusion that borrows the spontaneity and emphasis on group interaction of classic jazz while still emphasizing the groove and elastic sound of electronic music. For his second album, French producer Ludovic Navarre expanded the possibilities of his template for jazzy house by recruiting a sextet of musicians to solo over his earthy productions. The opener "Rose Rouge" is an immediate highlight, as an understated Marlena Shaw vocal sample ("I want you to get together/put your hands together one time"), trance-state piano lines, and a ride-on-the-rhythm drum program frames solos by trumpeter Pascal Ohse and baritone Claudio de Qeiroz.

For "Montego Bay Spleen," Navarre pairs an angular guitar solo by Ernest Ranglin with a deep-groove dub track, complete with phased effects and echoey percussion. "Land Of..." moves from a Hammond- and horn-led soul-jazz stomp into Caribbean territory, marked by more hints of dub and the expressive Latin percussion of Carneiro. Occasionally, Navarre's programming (sampled or otherwise) grows a bit repetitious -- even for dance fans, to say nothing of the jazzbo crowd attracted by the album's Blue Note tag. Though it is just another step on the way to a perfect blend of jazz and electronic, Tourist is an excellent one." ~ John Bush, All Music

Lista de Faixas:

1. Rose Rouge
2. Montego Bay Spleen
3. So Flute
4. La Goutte D'or
5. Sure Thing
6. Pont Des Arts
7. Latin Note
8. Land Of...
9. What You Think About...

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