Robin Mansanti - Nuit Américaine [LP]

Diggers Factory

£21.58

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: 2537211
Barcode: 3760370263517
Release Date: 21 Apr 2023
Genre: Jazz

The term "Nuit Américaine", better known in English as "Day for Night", brings to mind the love letter to cinema signed in 1973 by French director François Truffaut. It originally designates the cinematographic technique consisting in making daytime footage look like it was shot at night. This craft underpins the colors and mood of this album. When I met Robin Mansanti, I discovered a sensitive and determined artist, driven by a love of music that knows no limits. with a love of music that knows no bounds. It wasn't long before we were talking about we talked about Chet Baker. He knows everything about him, dates, photos, films and of course recordings. obviously the recordings... His passion is touching, generous and communicative. It is the musician, with the Brazilian João Gilberto, whom he listened to as a child and who gave him the desire to sing and become a musician. the desire to sing and to become a trumpet player. His phrasing and solos are his alphabet. When the idea of this first album was born, there was never any question of evading this passion, it is in the DNA of Robin. It was surreptitiously lodged somewhere in his voice, in his trumpet in his trumpet playing and in a form of romantic languor inherent in his nature. At beyond the influences, it was necessary to imagine an environment which makes emerge a personality and deeply honest. It was also necessary to carry an artist from whom emanates something nocturnal something nocturnal, a mixture of light and dark, of rain and light, and to summon other poets who would carry this sensitivity. Nelson Veras first of all, one of the most astonishing talents that Jazz has seen flourish, a guitarist apart, an immense storyteller and inventor of language.

When he evolves on simple melodies of appearance, he brings them elsewhere, transfiguring with their beauty with softness... Thomas Bramerie and Fabrice Moreau form a rhythm section full of intelligence full of intelligence and creative empathy. With a subtle sense of color, they marry the songs with a subtle sense of color, they embrace the songs, gracefully seizing the words and melodies. Before the recording, Robin had begun the exploration, with Laurent Courthaliac, of forgotten melodies. The strong link they then established is the matrix of this album. The pianist, master of the color, alchemist of the harmony offered him here sensitive and learned arrangements, full of detours and surprises. And when finally invites the friend of long date, Camille Bertault, sensitive to the poetry which emanates from Robin, it is to offer us a delicious duet around the music of "A Bout de Souffle", signed in 1959 by Martial Solal for the masterpiece of Jean-Luc Godard's masterpiece. "Nuit américaine" unfolds like a bewitching and luxurious playlist of ballads ballads, eternal wonders, which, without our knowledge, haunt the attic of our memories. This album distils from one end to the other an irresistible charm, plunging us into a dreamlike and and timeless world where time stops, as if in reverse of a world in panic. We are offered here the first steps of an inhabited artist, who, without even wanting it, summons, in all that it approaches, poetry and beauty.

TRACKLISTING
Side A
1. L'étang (Paul Misraki)
2. Moonlight Serenade (Gleen Miller/Mitchell Parish)
3. Two For The Road (Henry Mancini/Leslie Bricusse)
4. Stranger in paradise (Robert Wright/ George Forest)
5. New York Herald Tribune (Martial Solal)
6. Lonely Town (Leonard Bernstein/Betty Comden/Adolph Grenn)
7. Tendre rêve (Compositeur : Paul Smith et Oliver Wallace. Paroles : Mack David, Al Hoffman et Jerry Livingston. Adaptation française : Claude Rigal-Ansous)

Side B
1. Full Moon And Empty Arms (Budy Kaye/Ted Mossman/Rachmaninov )
2. By the time I Get To Phoenix (Jimmy Webb)
3. Where Are You ( Jimmy McHugh/Harold Adamson)
4. I Spend My Days (Robin Mansanti)
5. Quand tu dors près de moi (Johannes Brahms, Georges Auric, Françoise Sagan)