Thomas Savy, Louis Rodde, Guillaume de Chassy, Karen Vourc’h – Schubert-Ellington (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 43:50 minutes | 702 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © B Records
This autumn, intermingled melodies could be heard under the round arches of Noirlac Abbey, amongst which the strains of both Schubert’s “Trout” and Ellington’s famous “Take the ‘A’ Train” were recognisable. Karen Vourc’h, Thomas Savy, Louis Rodde and Guillaume de Chassy enjoyed navigating between the waters of the Lied and the Jazz Standard to produce this outstanding project connecting two geniuses of melody with intelligent arrangements and improvisational extravagance.
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Noëmi Waysfeld & Guillaume de Chassy – Schubert: Eine winterreise, un voyage d’hiver (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 47:57 minutes | 743 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Klarthe
13 melodies from Schubert’s masterpiece fly away into the dreamlike world of singer Noëmi Waysfeld and pianist Guillaume de Chassy
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Guillaume de Chassy & Christophe Marguet feat. Andy Sheppard – Letters to Marlene (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 48:33 minutes | 498 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © NoMadMusic
We owe it to William Shakespeare to have us together. It was in November 2013: inspired by the plays of the famous English playwright, we had conceived together a course mixing texts and music. Our trio found here the ferments of his poetic universe. Through the concerts, we found a sound identity and a way of dialogue that belonged to us, a balance between improvisation and writing where everyone proposes and listens simultaneously. After 3 years of existence and a record, our Shakespeare Songs were now well-honed. It was during a tour of the trio in Ireland, that Andy posed openly the question: “What comes next, guys? “. We were in March 2016, at a time when the disastrous resurgences of nationalism and populism were spreading across Europe and the United States. We were looking for a way to share our concerns and affirm our values with the best weapon we had: music. Andy suggested that Marlene Dietrich would be a particularly inspiring muse for our next creation. Actress and legendary singer, icon of the 20th century, she was also a free woman with an iron will and courageous convictions, a citizen of the world committed body and soul – against Nazism, for peace, Europe and feminism . We decided to send him these musical letters: letters of admiration and gratitude in tribute to his exceptional career as an artist and a woman who brought hope; musics to interrogate otherwise two troubled times: the years 1930-1940 and our years 2010-2020.
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David Linx feat. Guillaume De Chassy & Matteo Pastorino – On Shoulders We Stand (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:16 minutes | 670 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Yellowbird Records
“On Shoulders We Stand” showcases these 3 musicians on a journey of pure challenge, joyously undertaking a risk-taking endeavour, something of a rare phenomenon in our world’s thirst for conformity.
David Linx the incomparable male jazz vocalist, has founded his singularity in both the African-American culture (let’s not forget his friendship and his artistic collaboration, “A Lover’s Question”, with James Baldwin, a.o.), and the European musical landscape (Diederik Wissels, Paolo Fresu,). Guillaume de Chassy, cross-border pianist between jazz and classical music (he has collaborated with Brigitte Engerer as well as with Paul Motian and Natalie Dessay), excels in the art of blending different musical languages.
The 8 composers chosen for this particular repertoire have given us piano pieces whose melodic evidence calls for the voice.
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