Revoir Paris

Il fallait bien qu’un jour l’infatigable voyageur Renaud Garcia-Fons repasse par sa ville natale, Paris, capitale cosmopolite. A cette cité-carrefour, point de rencontre d’artistes de toutes nationalités, le contrebassiste franco-espagnol consacre son nouvel album « La vie devant soi », le titre même du livre d’Ajar-Gary qui conte « ce lien extraordinaire entre un petit orphelin arabe et une mamma juive ».

The relationship between Roland Dyens and the guitar began when he was nine, and it has roots so deep that it is difficult to distinguish the guitarist from the composer in his works. A composer, arranger, improviser, Roland Dyens had studied guitar with Alberto Ponce and composition with Désiré Dondeyne; for him, creation was the raison d’être of his artistic life. Everything was creation: from teaching (he taught at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris) to arrangement, from composition to the performance of his own works. He was capable of creating aural and musical experiences which began ex nihilo, enchanting the audiences with works and improvised creations of genius, which he was able to put in writing without letting them lose their spontaneity and evocative power.

"It's 2 a.m. and I'm wide awake, counting the days and hours until my plane leaves for Paris—3 days and 16 hours, to be exact. But ready or not, it's bonne journee for me. Croissant anyone?"