Label: Aspen Edities

素晴らしい内容!!10インチ+同内容のCDが付属する豪華仕様!ジミー ・ワイブルとビル・フリゼールを敬愛、その影響に即興要素を加え独自のスタイルを開拓していったギタリストKarl Van Deun。氏が1995年の西アフリカでの休暇中に録音したという牧歌な即興作品[Almadies]。何の準備も無くほぼ思い付きで直感的に演奏した全7曲を収録、何年間も研究していたクラシックのフィギュレーションが見事に浸透した名演。







almadies 10" LP + CD and Download.
Artwork by Loïc Van Zeebroek

An evening in 1995. In a quiet house in Dakar, one guitarist pushes an acoustic guitar in the hands of another. It was a small Eastern European instrument with special nylon strings, bought for little money in a Brussels music store. Pierre Van Dormael had purchased several before traveling to Senegal, for his students at the Conservatory of Dakar. The other musician: Karl Van Deun. He spent his vacation in West-Africa, with his comrade and teacher.

During one of those clammy African nights Pierre suggested to make some music. With nothing more than that small guitar, Karl played what came to him, intuitively and without preparation. Pierre recorded the session on cassette and would go on to mix the music as well.

Due to health problems, Karl had barely played guitar since 1993. That night he played about a dozen short improvisations. Only afterwards did he hear how his study of classical figuration, which he had been doing years before, had seeped through into his ideas and his playing.