Guillaume de Chassy & Christophe Marguet, Andy Sheppard – Letters to Marlene (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 48:33 minutes | 498 MB | Genre: Jazz
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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.
Tracklist:
1. Guillaume de Chassy & Christophe Marguet feat. Andy Sheppard – Lili Marleen (03:47)
2. Guillaume de Chassy & Christophe Marguet feat. Andy Sheppard – Letter to Marlene (05:58)
3. Guillaume de Chassy & Christophe Marguet feat. Andy Sheppard – America (04:12)
4. Guillaume de Chassy & Christophe Marguet feat. Andy Sheppard – Et in Terra Pax Homnibus Bonae Voluntatis (04:18)
5. Guillaume de Chassy & Christophe Marguet feat. Andy Sheppard – The Dress (03:22)
6. Guillaume de Chassy & Christophe Marguet feat. Andy Sheppard – Les Ardennes (02:33)
7. Guillaume de Chassy & Christophe Marguet feat. Andy Sheppard – Seule (04:15)
8. Guillaume de Chassy & Christophe Marguet feat. Andy Sheppard – A Dinner at Marlene’s Place (04:14)
9. Guillaume de Chassy & Christophe Marguet feat. Andy Sheppard – Ein Koffer in Berlin (06:35)
10. Guillaume de Chassy & Christophe Marguet feat. Andy Sheppard – Falling in Love Again (04:23)
11. Guillaume de Chassy & Christophe Marguet feat. Andy Sheppard – Last Dance (04:51)