Les Disques du Soleil et de l'Acier/Eva Records
01. Tango del Rosselló
02. Smoke on the Water
03. Egyptian Reggae
04. Let me try
05. Alifib
06. Rue des soeurs noires
07. Your labios as tulips
08. Put a straw under baby
09. C'era una volta il West
10. Love theme from Ben Hur
11. Mexican theme frome Rio Bravo
12. Nocturn, a Joan Salvat-Papasseit
13. Souvenir de Vernet-Les-Bains
14. The sad skinhead
15. Good-bye pork-pie hat
16. Greenlands
17. Abril 74
18. Valse de l'aiguille creuse
19. 4 Roses pour Marie
20. Marcha mora
21. Amarcord
22. I surrender
23. Besame mucho
24. 96 tears
25. Les humeurs
Pascal Paul Vincent Comelade [born June 30, 1955], is a French Catalan musician. Comelade born was in Montpellier, France. After living for several years in Barcelona, he made his first album, Fluence, influenced by electronic music and by the group Heldon. Subsequently, his music has become more acoustic and is characterised by the sounds of toy instruments, used as solo-instruments and as an integral part of the sound of his group, the Bel Canto Orquestra.
Each new album by Pascal Comelade is in itself a bit of an event. The man makes himself rare in France and is much more prolific in Catalonia, where he is considered to be an essential musician. In France, he is seldom mentioned in the media, and, in record shops, his music is often to be found in the film score section, with experimental music or even with world music. The last time he really got the attention of the critics was for his musical show Psicotic Music-Hall in 2002, a tribute to La Bodega Bohemia, a historical cabaret in Barcelona.
"I did a series of concerts in Tokyo in 1991 and played at the French-Japanese Institute. In the sixties, Yves Klein was there, giving French lessons in order to pay for his own judo lessons. My first record for DSA, 'Détail Monochrome' [1984] was - with its title and its cover [a monochrome blue one] - an involuntary tribute to Yves Klein. A second luck was that I found in Tokyo a toy piano from the same manufacturer of the piano which is in the CCAM Studio. With both pianos, I recorded 'Haïkus de pianos' as a special thank you to all the nice Japanese people I met in Tokyo." ~ pc
one of the most innovative french composers unfurls a sublimely short but super sweet set of unlikely covers & strong originals for grand & toy piano :) thoughtful sequencing & continuity demand repeated listening, with only about half the tunes featuring the prominent ticklin of toy ivories. 320 remerciements à l'uploader d'origine
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