Thibaut Maurisse

Louis Vierne is the greatest, most brilliant French organist of his generation. He was born in Poitiers, with an inoperable cataract that would slowly lead to total blindness. The family moved according to his father’s career, a Bonapartist journalist.

Thibaut Garcia pays tribute with El Bohemio to the Paraguayan guitar virtuoso and composer Agustín Barrios (1885-1944). As Garcia explains, “Barrios is an essential composer in the guitarist’s repertoire. His music can be described as a skilful mix of South American popular music – inspired by the jungles of Paraguay – and the Romanticism of Chopin and Schumann, composers he idolised.” El Bohemio duly complements 16 varied works by Barrios himself with three of his transcriptions of famous pieces by Chopin, Schumann, and Beethoven. In addition, the album includes readings of two of Barrios’s poems: ‘Bohemio’, which lends the album its name, portrays the composer as a wandering troubadour; ‘Profesión de fé’ (Profession of faith) honours the Guarani, the indigenous people of Paraquay.

C'est par là qu'il aurait fallu commencer. Par le début, la genèse… Par toutes ces années qui ont précédé la mort de Grégory Villemin, quand une voix rauque persécutait au téléphone une famille ordinaire, tapie dans une vallée méconnue de l'est de la France.
Par ces jalousies nées d'une promotion à l'usine, d'une voiture ou d'un salon de cuir neufs, des repas dominicaux mal partagés…