Bireli Lagrene

Biréli Lagrène – Biréli Lagrène plays Loulou Gasté (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 43:14 minutes | 482 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Dreyfus Jazz

Louis Gasté et Line Renaud avaient une profonde admiration pour Django Reinhardt dont on célèbre les 70 ans de la disparition cette année. Guitariste de renommée internationale, Biréli Lagrène aborde le répertoire de l’auteur-compositeur français Louis Gasté avec une aisance folle, comme si toute cette musique avait été composée pour lui. Le guitariste virtuose et le célèbre auteur-compositeur ont en point commun une passion pour Django Reinhardt. Ce disque est l’occasion de revisiter en mode jazz manouche des classiques tels que Ma cabane au Canada, Rose de mai ou le mondialement célèbre Feelings (repris par Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Nina, Simone, Shirley Bassey, The Offspring…).

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Biréli Lagrène – Biréli Lagrène plays Loulou Gasté (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 00:43:14 minutes | 447 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover

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Bireli Lagrene – Storyteller (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:01:33 minutes | 758 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © naïve

Ever since he stunned listeners at age 13 with jaw-dropping guitar technique and mastery of the jazz manouche idiom eternally associated with Django Reinhardt, France’s Biréli Lagrène has grown continually more beastly on the instrument. His musicality, however—his deep appreciation for songs and the people he plays them with—guides his decisions more than chops alone. On Storyteller, with bassist Larry Grenadier and percussionist Mino Cinélu, he begins with the purest, most beautiful acoustic tone but then stretches it sonically with software to create radical sustain and added color. Chords linger and wave like aurora borealis. Organic elements of his playing—harmonics, slides, bends, fall-offs, scrapes, vibrato—become enhanced and almost surreal. Yet the intimacy of his touch is never lost or covered over. One could call it acoustic fusion, a blending of two paramount interests of Lagrène’s over the decades. Playing mainly well-trodden standards, he devours them like a lion, exposing every harmonic nuance and rhythmic possibility. But with the title track, he closes on a tantalizingly futuristic note.
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Biréli Lagrène – Solo Suites (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:44 minutes | 1,09 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © PEEWEE!

Recorded on June 9th 2020, Nov 23rd-24th and Dec 12th 2021 at Studio Sextan A, Paris
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