Grand Orchestre du Tricot

Grand Orchestre du Tricot – Tribute to Lucienne Boyer (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:03:05 minutes | 735 MB | Genre: Jazz, Chanson
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © B Records

On “Tribute To Lucienne Boyer”, the formation is dedicated to the pieces of French singer Lucienne Boyer, who was discovered as a singer in 1916 at the age of 13 years and in the first 30 years of the 20th century in cabarets, including the Théâtre de L ‘Athénée, Concordia, L’Eldorado and even sang on Broadway in New York. The Broadway attitude is also omnipresent on the upcoming tribute album. Flahault breathes, scratches and sings passionately through the eight tracks, cello, piano, trombone and clarinet support her powerfully and lively.

The idea germinates in drummer Florian Satche’s head, charmed by the obsolete lyrics of the “Lady in Blue”. He draws in the repertoire and gives the arrangements of some pieces to his friends Theo Ceccaldi, Valentin Ceccaldi and Roberto Negro. To embody Lucienne Boyer, he uses the singer Angela Flahault, which is sometimes moving, sometimes naughty. The result is a rogue operetta with controlled skids, a (re) creative jazz with rock ‘n’ roll lurches.

A tribute from which we come out delighted and smug!

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Grand Orchestre du Tricot – Atomic Spoutnik (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 52:04 minutes | 582 MB | Genre: Jazz, Chanson
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Tricollection

What is the use of limiting one’s imagination to what one already knows? This question, posed by the character incarnated by Robin Mercier, is central to the artistic approach of Valentin Ceccaldi and the Grand Orchester du Tricot. Atomic Sputnik is like a kid’s dream put into music, a dreamlike journey in which one follows, in parallel, the odyssey in the space of a child and the spatial fantasy of an adult having visibly refused the constraints of the world. Quite a bit of narration strictly speaking, but the interventions of Robin Mercier and André Robillard suggest this duality within this ambitious fresco where clash the naive melodies and the contemporary bursts.

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