DJANGO RELOADED VOL 1

Description

Django 2.0? It’s read everywhere: Django Reinhardt’s music is timeless. He created a grammar, a school, a musical movement. A world that is regularly celebrated in the form of albums played “in the spirit” or “in the style” since his passing in 1953. As if one could cast in stone the flights of the man with wind at his heels. According to Jean Cocteau, “Django dead, he is one of those gentle wild beasts that die in a cage.” No, Django remains elusive, Benjamin Blackstone and Yoann Kempst insist. Games without prohibitions. Django Reloaded is two virtuoso, polymorphous and adventurous guitarists who question their contemporary popular culture in the light of Reinhardtian poetry... “We wanted to project Django into the present-day universe, even into a dystopian future, by playing on the contrast between the old-fashioned character of certain pop, rock or variety hits, and the sophistication of gypsy jazz arrangements.” As the album artwork suggests, Django reloaded vol.1 is a tribute to the Reinhardtian mystery, to Django’s raw power and to the poetic force of his legacy.