Dear Uncle Lennie, by Camille-Alban Spreng, Benjamin Sauzereau, Marco Giongrandi

Dear Uncle Lennie

by Camille-Alban Spreng, Benjamin Sauzereau, Marco Giongrandi

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1.	About promises made at funerals 02:34	buy track
2.	Horses In Stables Relating Battlefield Stories 03:20	buy track
3.	The Exciting Night Life Of Harvest Mice 02:50	buy track
4.	Macha 02:35	buy track
5.	Oppresseur opprimé 03:18	buy track
6.	Lennie and George 02:50	buy track
7.	Interlude 00:21	buy track
8.	Le sourire d'Oscar ne cache pas sa profonde incompréhension du monde 01:14	buy track
9.	Souvenir 02:14	buy track
10.	Monks Singing Holy Songs In The Wild Coutry Side 03:35	buy track
11.	Small Music Box Mechanism 02:13	buy track
12.	Après un court moment d'inattention Oscar réalise que tout est perdu 01:21	buy track
13.	You Left Right 02:15	buy track
14.	Chorale I 01:49	buy track
15.	Chorale II 01:30	buy track
16.	Deau Uncle James 02:49	buy track
17.	Le village aplati 02:27	buy track
18.	Small Music Box Miniature 01:13	buy track

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A bit like Japanese haiku, each piece in this repertoire for muted piano, guitar and banjo represents an idea, a fantasized story, a furtive image towards a picturesque landscape. The guiding ideas are raw, condensed, and highly evocative. The short pieces follow one another, mixing jazz, folk, and improvised music, and create a mythological fresco whose stories would be told without words, by musical evocation and with the help of the listener's imagination.
How to create tales through music that are as powerful and evocative as those stories we were told by the fire, as children?
This music was guided by the sounds of Marco Giongrandi on banjo and Benjamin Sauzereau on guitar. The piano strings were muted or prepared to match the aesthetic dictated by the unique blend of these two sounds. The writing itself was inspired by stories of the American Civil War, fireside tales, cornfields, and songwriters such as Leonard Cohen, Patrick Watson, Sufjan Stevens...

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released November 18, 2022

Camille-Alban Spreng, piano
Benjamin Sauzereau, guitar
Marco Giongrandi, banjo

Music : Camille-Alban Spreng (and Benjamin Sauzereau :tracks 4, 8, 9, 12,17).
Redording, mixing, mastering by Dries Van Ende at Zinnema, Brussels.

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Yolk Records Nantes, France

Awarded as the best french jazz label in 2020, Yolk has released more than 80 CDs. The label is giving artists the control of their releases. Founded by three jazz musicians who remain its artistic directors: Alban Darche, Sébastien Boisseau and Jean-Louis Pommier, Yolk is a platform for encounters, an attractive space for internationally renowned musicians. ... more

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