{"product_id":"bireli-lagrene_gipsy-project_2024_uni","title":"Gipsy Project","description":"Few albums are as disturbing as this one. We have known for a long time that BIRELI LAGRENE was not done with Django, with that kind of jazz - aficionados, who had been lucky enough to hear him play during \"after hours\" jam sessions or family gatherings, but also, more recently and more broadly, the public of the Nuits de la Guitare de Patrimonio for example, to whom he had given the happiness of such a dazzling version of \"All The Things You Are\", performed on a Selmer type guitar (that famous French guitar that the Anglo-Saxons envy) -. Aficionados or not, what struck then, here or there, was the astonishing commitment of the guitarist in the \"doing\" of music, like a kind of return to the sacred (because, among the Manouches, the relationship to Django is not far from religion, like everything that touches, closely or remotely, the foundations of the community). Among the Gypsies more than elsewhere, music is sharing. It was therefore necessary, for such music to be (again) possible, that BIRELI LAGRENE surround himself with brothers, brothers in friendship or brothers of race. This is the case of the Romanian gypsy violinist Florin Niculescu, Holzmano Lagrène and Hono Winterstein on rhythm guitars, and the faithful Diego Imbert on double bass. Supported by this dream team, a new horizon seems to be able to unfold for the leader, from the most deeply rooted, most intimately explored tradition, to the point of vertigo. (Didn't Biréli recently confide to us that Django had appeared to him in a dream?). By agreeing to embark on this 'Gipsy Project', BIRELI LAGRENE not only began to work on the memory of the music itself, but, more fundamentally, on what concerns his personal memory, his profound identity as a man and a musician (if such a distinction is still possible in his case). We sometimes awkwardly interpret what, in gypsy culture, relates to virtuosity and instrumental passion. We often see in it the manifestation (at best: generous) of an apparent gratuity, without noticing that what appears there, in the instrumental gesture, is above all a matter of memory and bodily transmission. Memory of the transmission of the body (and therefore of thought), acute concern for the human \"chain\" (that which links the musician to his ancestors, to the ancestors of his ancestors, etc...). By reminding us (and by reminding us of him) through this audacious, almost crazy proposition, BIRELI LAGRENE answered in his own way, that is to say as only he could afford, the eternal question of guitarists: that of Django's eternal return. \"Biréli returns to his first loves with breathtaking mastery.\" --- Télérama ---. \"Essential.\" --- Le Monde ---. \"A real delight\" --- Femme Actuelle ---. \"That's jazz\" --- L'Express ---. To celebrate the anniversary of the BMG label, a selection of CDs or LPs at a special \"COLLECTION LES ESSENTIELS\" price includes a Sampler CD.","brand":"Biréli Lagrène","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55350900523352,"sku":null,"price":23988279.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/4943\/0360\/files\/4050538635430_8c777acb-33b7-426f-8490-4b9661c24070.jpg?v=1768501930","url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en-us\/products\/bireli-lagrene_gipsy-project_2024_uni","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}