Beyond The Double Bass / Renaud Garcia-fons

Renaud García-Fons; Soleá García-Fons, Claire Antonini, David Venitucci, Kiko Ruiz, Adel Shams El Din, Jean-Louis Matinier

Composed by: Garcia-Fons, Renaud

The CD BEYOND THE DOUBLE BASS gives great insight into the phenomenon Renaud García-Fons focussing on essential tracks of his ten CD releases, personally selected and commented. A surprise is his daughter Soleá’s contribution Camino de Felicidad. Her wonderful,warmly expressive Flamenco tinged voice is a highlight in this instrumental album andprovides a yet unheard side of the great bass player’s soundscape.The DVD of this CD DVD package documents the creative process of García-Fons. Filmmaker Nicolas Dattilesi has followed Renaud for many years and won the ECHO-Award(something like the German Grammy) for his Marcevol DVD (ENJ-9581). On the new DVDmany partners of the bassist give their views and interpretations on his music, musicianslike Nguyên Lê, Barre Phillips, David Peña Dorantes, Derya Türkan, Jean Auray who custombuilds his instruments, journalists like Alex Dutilh, Jonathan Glusman and long timeproducer Matthias Winckelmann. Extensive interviews and smashing concert excerpts betweenParis and Istanbul point out the unique concept of this artist and his grasp on Mediterraneanmusic developed out of Flamenco, the jazz tradition and classical music.It’s a highest quality DVD filmed by 5 HD cameras and expert camera men, sub titles ofthe French language original in English, Spanish and German.Renaud García-Fons’ career has developed in great leaps in recent

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