(Modern Creative, Avant-Garde Jazz) David Chevallier - Коллекция {Gesualdo Variations (2010), Is That Pop Music?!? (2013)}, MP3, 320 kbps

David Chevallier is a maverick.
Refusing to be confined within a musical style, he cultivates his difference, and creates works at the intersection of universes that are a priori remote from one another. Perhaps this is due to his personal trajectory - musician parents, a thorough training in the classical guitar, empirical discovery of jazz, improvisation and composition - or perhaps it is no more than a form of resistance. Whether as an instrumentalist in the groups of Laurent Dehors, Patrice Caratini, John Taylor and Jean-Marie Machado, or as leader of his own projects, David Chevallier has always shown a determination to be original.
Hence, after setting to music novellas by Dino Buzzati and poems by Cesare Pavese (in his astonishing album ‘The Rest is Silence' written specially for Elise Caron), David Chevallier recalled the madrigals of Gesualdo, which had made a strong impression on him, and conceived this programme of ‘Gesualdo Variations'. He subsequently worked on the lute songs of John Dowland with the soprano Anne Magouet, also a member of the ‘Gesualdo Variations' team, and the theorbist Bruno Helstroffer.
Then came ‘Is That Pop Music', with the remarkable singer David Linx and four faithful companions: Yves Robert, Christophe Monniot, Michel Massot, and Denis Charolles.
Eclecticism and coherence, a taste for risk-taking, and sensuous pleasure: these are the key words that characterise this resolutely atypical musician.

David Chevallier - Gesualdo Variations (Les madrigaux imaginaires du prince assassin)
Год издания диска: 2010
Продолжительность: 41:23
Треклист:
01. Mille Volte (8:20)
02. Itene (7:52)
03. Io pur respiro (6:53)
04. Io parto (5:58)
05. Moro Lasso (8:05)
06. Languisce (4:15)
Состав:
David Chevallier - electric guitar, 12-string acoustic guitar, conductor
Christophe Monniot - alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, sopranino saxophone
Guillaume Roy - viola
Alain Grange - cello
Dominique Pifarely - violin
Ensemble A Sei Voci:
Anne Magouet - soprano
Beatrice Mayo-Felip - soprano
Frederic Betous - counter tenor
Jean-Francois Novelli - tenor
Arnaud Richard - bass
Musique Carlo Gesualdo et David Chevallier.
Recorded at Studio Sequenza, Montreuil on June 25-27, 2009.

David Chevallier - Is That Pop Music?!?
#777Год издания диска: 2013
Продолжительность: 59:57
Треклист:
01. Dream Brother (Buckley-Grondahl-Johnson) - 5:16
02. Sowing the Seeds of Love (Orzabal-Smith) - 6:18
03. Ordinary World (Le Bon-Cuccurullo-Rhodes-Taylor) - 5:08
04. O Come Emmanuel (Trad., arr. Chevallier) - 3:39
05. Come Together (Lennon-McCartney) - 4:42
06. She Said (Lennon-McCartney) - 7:43
07. Message in a Bottle (Sting) - 8:40
08. Love is Blindness (U2/Bono) - 5:20
09. Once in a Lifetime (Byrne-Eno-Frantz-Harrison-Weymouth) - 6:03
10. Mysterious Ways (Bono, U2) - 7:08
Состав:
David Chevallier - electric guitar, acoustic guitar, banjo
David Linx - vocals
Yves Robert - trombone
Christophe Monniot - alto saxophone, sopranino saxophone
Gerald Chevillon - bass saxophone
Denis Charolles - drums
Recorded at Studio Guimmick, Paris in December 2011.