2024-09-13 15:00:24
“A prototype is a recycling machine. One thing has come into existence, and it gives rise to another, it gives renewal, in a way. » Sitting in a tree in the 18th district, in Paris, Lamarck-Caulaincourt metro station, not far from home, Nicolas Repac talks about his favorite creative instrument, a few days before the recording, on September 13, of the album- your new song, Gramophonea magnificent ageless fresco. Guitarist, arranger and producer, Arthur H’s touring partner for twenty-five years and also himself a singer, songwriter and performer in his spare time – The city (Blue Label, 1997)The Big Wheel (Deluxe Disc, 2007) -, He also recounted how the reviewer changed his life: “Everything is possible with him, he’s such a dream come true. »
In 2004, as well Swing-Swing (Nø Førmat!), an album made of loans, among other things from the jazz of the great groups of Harlem of the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the first artists published by the youth label Nø Førmat !, created that year by Laurent Bizot. , then worked in the legal department of Universal Jazz. Nø Førmat!, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, especially with several concerts across France by artists from its catalog.
After pressing The black box (2012), a work made from recordings of African-American prisoner songs collected by musicologist Alan Lomax (1915-2002), then Rhapsodic (2021), for which he draws on the traditional music collections of Charles Duvelle (1937-2017), and several albums on the label made for singers Mamani Keita, Dobet Gnahoré, singer and songwriter Abou Diarra, Repac hopes to follow next. on Swing-Swing.
“Fashion jazz” album
This Nø Førmat birthday! give a pretext. Twenty years later, here it is Gramophone, “sound film with lots of ghosts in it”album of « jazz thrift store, with the idea of recycling music like old clothes that can be used again”. Repac summons jazz from yesterday and the days before yesterday, scat, doo-wop (The Mills Brothers, Jabbo Smith, The Cornets, pianist Phineas Newborn Jr, double bassist Yves Rousseau, saxophonist Simon Spang-Hanssen), but also French song (Adam). , Elise Caron, Sophie Rockwell), composer Sergei Prokofiev, Banda Municipal de Santiago de Cuba also performed Schubert.
Much more than an extension of Swing-SwingSo it’s a wonderful musical kaleidoscope woven with light, jovial… and melancholic at the same time. “I want to tell a story, that’s what interests me in my records, through the music I love, I love big band jazz, of old things that come from gramophones to cars from childhood me But it’s also an album that relates to the emotions I’m going through and that life has put me through in recent years. » You need, he explained, not to put something slower, more mellow“Something like me”.
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