Review Samoreau Tribute to Fans of Django Reinhardt Daniel Weltlinger

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Samoreau

Daniel Weltlinger

Label: DMG Frg / Rectify Records
Released: 2017
Duration: 46:29
Views: 1,668

Runway Listing

1 Alone - two:42 2 Sur-Seine – 3:36 3 Les Enfants de Django – four:50 4 The Family – 4:58 5 La Femme Sophistiquée – 4:52 vi Keith – 5:28 vii Samois – 5:04 8 Waterlillies – 4:25 9 3am Melun – five:20 ten Ghosts – iii:26 11 Samoreau – 1:45

Personnel

Boosted Personnel / Information

Daniel Weltlinger - violin (tracks one-11) Lulo Reinhardt - rhythm guitar (tracks two-10) solo guitar (tracks 2, v, seven, ten) Christiano Gitano– rhythm guitar (tracks 2-ten) solo guitar (tracks 3, 6-seven, 10) Taylor Paucken – rhythm guitar (tracks 3-iv, 7, 9-10) solo guitar (tracks 3-iv, seven, ix-10) Jermaine Reinhardt – rhythm guitar (tracks three-four, 7-8, 10) solo guitar (tracks iii-iv, 7-viii, ten) Romano Reinhardt – rhythm guitar (tracks three-4, 7, 10) Harald Becher – bass (tracks ii-10) Winfried Schuld- accordion (tracks two, 9) pianoforte (8)

Album Description

In tardily June of 2004, several years after the tragic passing abroad of my father at the historic period of 54, I travelled past myself – all alone - for the very outset time to the fabled 'Festival Django Reinhardt de Samois' outside of Paris, which I had for many years dreamed of attention. I had some weeks previously contacted Sylvia Rushbrooke (who runs the London Gypsy-jazz venue 'Le Quecumbar'), and was invited to stay at the local campsite in the minor town of Samoreau, several kilometres away from the festival site along the banks of the Seine river. At this army camp, too as at the festival itself, I formed a very close bond with many people from beyond Europe and elsewhere in the earth, who over the years have really go like family unit to me. This album is a tribute to this extended family, likewise as to the innumerable fans of the music of Django Reinhardt around the world - which includes many friends from various Sinti families from across Western Europe who to this twenty-four hour period I regularly perform with. It is also a tribute to the remarkable natural landscape of Samois-sur-Seine and Samoreau, as well every bit a tribute to nature itself. In early July of 2004 I also travelled for the very first fourth dimension to the Rhineland city of Koblenz, Germany to meet up with guitarist Lulo Reinhardt, who I had met and befriended several years previously in Sydney, Australia. In Koblenz - a city rich in history and natural dazzler where the Rhine and Moselle rivers see at Deutsches Eck - I was befriended and virtually adopted past Lulo's family unit, who are almost all relatives of the legendary guitarist and composer Django Reinhardt and violinist Schnuckenack Reinhardt. This wonderful recording is recorded with Lulo and some of his very talented nephews, likewise as with several musicians from Lulo's 'Latin-Swing-Project' which I take been recording and performing with now for some 12 years. 2004 marked the start of many years of travelling back and forth to two remarkable regions in Europe to spend fourth dimension with and make music with what has become to me very much extended family. An annual pilgrimage that continues to this day, encompassing a never-ending kaleidoscope of experiences and feelings that deeply affects me and my music. 'Samoreau' represents the culmination of a trilogy of recordings that explore the deeper historical and humanistic connotations underlying the Gypsy-swing style primarily created by Django Reinhardt (1910-1953) that has spread far and wide beyond the globe today. This trilogy would not have come up about were it not for the extremely fortunate take chances of beingness spotted at a private issue in Sydney, Australia in 2010 by Didier Mahout from BNP Paribas. Didier took an instant liking to the music I was playing, and through his piece of work at BNP Paribas helped me to receive a generous sponsorship from the bank to create this trilogy, for which I am eternally grateful. Whilest the first two albums 'Souvenirs' and 'Koblenz' respectively consist of the original compositions of Django Reinhardt and my ain original compositions most the life of Django Reinhardt, this third anthology - also consisting of my original compositions - explores themes of universal humanity that are also alluded to within the first ii albums.