With Six Strings Under, the pianist and collaborator of Joe Lovano, Claude Nougaro, Stefano Di Battista, Aka Moon, the Belmondo brothers and Ibrahim Maalouf certainly chooses to make a kind of love letter to this instrument that has accompanied him throughout his life. But not only that: in addition to a little nod to the famous series Six Feet Under, of which he is a fan, this album marks a return to acoustic and instrumental formats, two areas he had set aside for several years to focus on more electric albums packed with guest vocalists. In Six Strings Under, the winner of the 2011 Victoire du Jazz for 'Best Album of the Year' wants to celebrate the guitar in all its forms. Not just the art of standards dear to Thomas Bramerie or Hugo Lippi (as on the 1930s classic, 'Stomping at the Savoy'). Not only the gypsy jazz spirit embodied like no one else by Rocky Gresset. We also find afrobeat guitars in the style of Fela on 'Boda Boda', pop guitars in the style of Radiohead on 'Daydreaming', or bossa guitars in the style of Jobim ('La Mangueira', a composition dedicated to his friend and Brazilian collaborator Marcia Maria, who passed away in 2018). Better still: there is even a miniature mass dedicated to the guitars of English rock... but without guitar! On the cover of David Bowie’s masterpiece 'Space Oddity', Eric Legnini plays it almost solo.