Moreno Viglione
Souvenir De Paris

Artist: Moreno Viglione

Title:  Souvenir De Paris

Label: Funky Juice records

Format: Digital download album

Cat. Numb.: fu.ju – 789 – 86

Release date : 22/April /2024

Worldwide Distribution:  BelieveDigital

Number of tracks: 8

File under: Gipsy-Swing – Jazz-Manouche – World Music

 

 

Tracklist

01 Caravane Tzigane 03:32

02 Au Revoir La Senne 03:39

03 Souvenir De Paris 03:37

04 Madame Gipsy 03:28

05 Reunion a Paris 03:16

06 Futuristic 02:25

07 La Promenade 02:44

08 Bateau Sur La Mer 02:55

With this new E.P. “Funky Juice” explores the world of the “jazz-manouche, gipsy-jazz” guitar style, presenting some of Moreno Viglione‘s best work. All the compositions are original, very suitable for cinematographic and theatrical scenes but also for themed parties and listening in company, given the animated, joyful and festive nature of the songs. The artist’s profound knowledge of the genre and his careful attention to the culture of origin of the populations who invented this captivating and popular sound are the essential prerequisites for achieving an artistic result of a high quality level. The love for boundless travel, for the magical nights spent dancing around the fires and the joy of belonging to a festive, wandering and free community, together with the cult and admiration for the great inventor father of the genre “Django”, they were the starting point for the composition of all the songs. Always having in my heart the splendor and magnificence of one of the most beautiful cities in the world, Paris.

Manouche jazz (also known as gipsy jazz, gipsy swing or hot club jazz) is one of the styles of jazz developed by guitarist Jean “Django” Reinhardt, of the Sinti Manouche clan, in Paris in the 1930s. That style is defined as manouche jazz lilting melodic music in which stringed instruments (guitars, basses, violins…) find their maximum expression, typical of gypsy bands. This musical genre draws its origins from the unrepeatable artistic experience of the guitarist Django Reinhardt, who is considered its creator and its greatest exponent: he made possible the union between the ancient gypsy musical tradition of the Manouches lineage and the American jazz. The fruit of this union is a genre that combines the sound and expressive creativity of the swing of the thirties with the musical trend of the French valse musette and the eclectic gypsy virtuosity. Gypsy jazz or jazz manouche continued throughout the course of the last century and still today. Among the contemporaries of the typically gypsy sphere there are: Bireli Lagrene, Angelo Debarre, Stochelo Rosenberg, Jimmy Rosenberg, Joscho Stephan and Frank Vignola.

Guitar and violin are still the main solo instruments, although clarinet, saxophone, mandolin and accordion are sometimes used. Rhythm guitar is played using a percussive technique, which essentially replaces drums. During the 1930s swing also arrived in Europe, a music that sounded very strong compared to the canons of the time and in this context the guitar could not be heard. The question was close to the heart of Mario Maccaferri, an excellent musician and luthier from Cento (Ferrara) who in 1930 developed the idea of a guitar with a powerful and ringing sound with substantial differences compared to the one everyone knew; in fact it had an internal sound box, the soundboard folded onto the bridge, the bridge not glued but resting on the top and many other improvements that would have made this instrument capable of competing with the volume of swing formations. The history of jazz guitar, which began in New York around the 1920s with the great Eddie Lang, continued in the 1930s with two guitarists who would have a great influence on subsequent generations: Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt.

Proud and alternative in every manifestation of life, Django could not read or write, neither music nor words. He was rarely on time for his concerts, he liked to have rolls of banknotes in his pockets, but the money went out as quickly as it came in, to pay for pleasures. The conventions of the “villagers”, as the Sinti called the settled citizens, were of no interest to Django. He was interested in living. And play.

 

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Moreno Viglione guitarist, composer, arranger and guitar teacher, boasts almost thirty years of experience. He has played on tour and in the studio with many artists of national and international fame. In the jazz field with some of the greatest exponents of gypsy jazz, such as Angelo Debarre, Samson Schmitt, Noe Reinhardt, Dorado Schmitt and Tim Kliphuis. On tour and on TV with Patty Pravo, Mimmo Locasciulli, Giorgio Tirabassi, Mark Hanna just to name a few. He was the guitarist of the resident band of the Webnotte (la Repubblica) broadcast hosted by journalists and music critics Ernesto Assante and Gino Castaldo where he played with many artists such as Ron, Enrico Ruggeri, Raf, Paola Turci, Massimo Ranieri, Nek, J- Ax, Malika Ayane, Francesco Renga, Nina Zilli, Fausto Leali, Carmen Consoli, Fiorello, Noemi, Luca Carboni, Syria, Mario Venuti, Francesco Gabbani, Manuel Agnelli, Fedez, Chiara Galiazzo, Max Paiella, Claudio Santamaria, Irene Grandi, Rocco Hunt, Alex Britti, Toto Cutugno, Nino D’Angelo, I Ricchi e Poveri, Federico Zampaglione, Max Giusti, Patty Pravo, Paola Cortellesi, Edoardo Vianello, Raiz, Peppino Di Capri, Rossana Casale, The Gang, I Nomadi, Lorenzo Fragola , Francesca Michielin, Alberto Fortis, and many others. With Piji and Bateaumanouche he participated in Fiorello’s broadcast “Edicola Fiore” for the month of February 2016 as guitarist of the resident band. Discographically he has collaborated with many artists, including Patty Pravo, Giorgio Tirabassi and carries out some original projects including the Hot Club Roma. He has three albums under his own name, Moreno Viglione Gyspy jazz quintet, M.V. Wood and strings and M.V. Maybe Blues Trio. As a composer for cinema and TV he wrote the soundtrack for the film “The Secret Guest”, the music for the Rai Tre broadcast “Circo Massimo”, original music for Ballarò and Di Tuesday and original songs for the first season “when Patrick met Kylie” for National Geographic.

All tracks published by Surabaya Music publ. (S.I.A.E.)

 

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