Romane Impair & Valse CD

Patrick Leguidcoq—better known as Romane—has for almost a decade now been at the forefront of creating a new path for Gypsy jazz. Unlike most guitarists in the field who are content to devote their energies to recreating the sound of Django Reinhardt’s Quintette du Hot Club de France and replaying his classic tunes often lick for lick, Romane has constantly written his own innovative and modern compositions. His penultimate album, Samois-sur-Seine, highlights his new vision with its funky melodies, arpeggios, and rhythms that are aligned less with the Django of “Minor Swing” than the playful inventiveness of “Rhythm Futur.”Interestingly, Romane has professed his admiration for the playing of Baro Ferret over his brother Matelo, and this comes through in Romane’s new CD, Impair & Valse, which pays homage to one of the music’s many roots, the classic Manouche waltz, of which Baro was a master.With just an acoustic bass and his own dubbed rhythm backing him, Romane unreels glorious versions of eleven waltzes

1. Soir De Dispute (Viseur Guy)
2. La Valse Des Niglos (Malha Gusti)
3. La Gitane (Tchou Tchan)
4. Mintch Valse (Ferret)
5. Swing Valse (Ferret)
6. Passion (Murena Tony)
7. Mysterieuse (Privat Joe)
8. Dolores (Tchou Tchan)
9. Montagne Sainte Genevieve (Reinhardt Django)
10. La Camarde (Romane)
11. La Folle (Ferret)
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