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gérard pansanel electrizzante new mediterranean electro jazz project ... gérard pansanel (guitars, sampling) antonello salis (accordion) lionel suarez (accordion, accordina) patrice héral (drums, percussions, sampling) andré minvielle (lead vocal, percussions, electronics)

gérard pansanel / antonello salis 20 years of complicity and instantaneaous creation... gérard pansanel (guitars) antonello salis (accordion, piano) + possible guest patrice héral (drums, percussions / sampling)

Musique en plus & Opus 31 present : Gérard PANSANEL ELECTRIZZANTE 2007-2008 Tours Gérard PANSANEL guitars, sampling, compositions Antonello SALIS accordion Lionel SUAREZ accordion & accordina Patrice HERAL drums, percussions, sampling André MINVIELLE lead vocal, « electronics », percussions

Electrizzante , my 8th album. More electrified than its predecessor, this mediterranean electro jazz album, is performed along with André Minvielle, a Gascon countryman magician of words, accents and voice, with drummer Patrice Héral, a globetrotter living as Gerard Pansanel near the large blue one, and talented specialist of instantaneous special effects, mocking and adept of outrageousness, with brilliant accordionist Lionel Suarez, from Aveyron, and with indispensable Antonio Salis. Since 1984, Gerard Pansanel has made 6 albums with alter ego and brother in sounds, Antonello Salis (Calypso, Cinecittà, Beatles stories, Voices, Nino Rota / Fellini, Navigators) as well as with several fellow-traveller artists such as Enrico Rava (Voices album in 90), Aldo Romano, Paolo Fresu, Furio di Castri, Doudou Gouirand, Michel Marre, Joël Allouche, Michel Bénita… Electrizzante is an album tainted with a particular approach, a very specific culture and sensibility, a personal idea of melody and a very genuine way of living and playing.

This new album Gérard PANSANEL ELECTRIZZANTE (4 stars Jazzman sept 06, Disque d’Emoi Jazz Magazine sept 06, Elu Citizen jazz …) has been released july 2006. Nocturne distribution Listen to mp3 on website : http://gerard.pansanel.free.fr/electrizzante.html Tours in Quintet (same casting as the album) or in Trio with Gérard PANSANEL, Lionel SUAREZ, Patrice HERAL. Contact us for conditions! Opus 31 - Tour management Catherine Crouzat & Philippe Thévenet [email protected] + 33 (0)4 67 07 34 79 + 33 (0)6 22 06 04 51 Press books http://gerard.pansanel.free.fr/enarticlespresse.html

Gérard Pansanel Electrizzante Antonello Salis (acc), Patrice Héral (dm, perc, sampling, voc), André Minvielle (voc, "electronics", perc), Lionel Suarez (acc, accordina), Gérard Pansanel (g, sampling) [ Nord Sud / Nocturne ] October 2006

Eighth album of the guitarist, autoproclamed electro-jazz of the suds, here a bubbling recording of energy and inventiveness. For the occasion Gerard Pansanel surrounded itself by its eternal accomplice Antonello Salis who officiates exclusively with the accordion, as well as Patrice Héral, another usual partner of the guitarist and current percussionnist of the ONJ Franck Tortiller. In reinforcement, Andre Minvielle the « vocalchimist » and a second accordion, that of Lionel Suarez. It will have been included/understood: north of the Loire to abstain from! The combination of these five marked musical personalities functions with wonder, in particular thanks to a particularly intelligent construction of album. Long unslung pieces often preceded by an introduction succeed skilfully short interludes more alleviating, and this alternation gets a remarkable atmosphere with the whole of the disc, subtle mixture of proximity, writing of spontaneousness. Proximity because in the spirit, the introductions seem to be recorded between two takes, proposing the essence of the piece to come. Thus, it seems to us to listen to the music of the interior, as if one were accomodated with the centre even band of the merry rogues. It is obvious on the court “As auroras”: short decorated ballade of noises of wavelets; this piece, which follows a “Corridore di spaggia” to the démoniaque swing, really resembles an alarm clock in the tepid paddle of the summer, on a beach, after one night of festival… The writing is also an essential element of the disc; all the compositions (signed or Co-signed by Pansanel) seduce by their

melodies. They are undoubtedly involved in the spirit, that it is the topic acid-jazz of “Electrizzante”, that, nearer to the tango, of “Noches de Cadaquès”, the topic be-bop of “Corridore di spaggia” or finally that, irresistibly involving, of “Calypso”: all these melodies shine by their naturalness, their gaiety and their elegance, and are perfect revealing enthusiasm of the musicians. In addition, arrangements are them also with the honor, benefitting the maximum of the possibilities of the instruments, and in particular the two accordions, which get for the disc an impressive harmonic base. Add to that the scat and the wandering onomatopoeias of Andre Minvielle, more various samples disseminated that and there: the result seems already complete. It would be to forget the last stage, and not the least, building: the improvisation. Without proposing itself, Gerard Pansanel is not the last to be expressed with virtuosity and brilliance, sauntering with ease among the many musical styles of the album and emphasizing various sonorities of his guitars, which they are electric or with nylon strings. But, like one says in the south, side improvisation Salis and Suarez does not leave their share to the colleagues: the presence of the two accordions makes it possible the one to take care of the harmonic part by leaving the free field to the other to launch out in superb flights. With final, therefore, the richness of the composition, improvisations, the pleasure of playing proclamation and extremely communicative make of Electrizzante an album in any successful point, to discover absolutely. Arnaud Stefani (Citizen jazz – Paris – France) Gérard Pansanel (website french & english)) http://gerard.pansanel.free.fr/ Listen to mp3 extracts : http://gerard.pansanel.free.fr/electrizzante.html Antonello Salis website : http://www.antonellosalis.com/ Patrice heral : http://assocontinuum.dyndns.org/musiciens/heral.htm Contact (mail) Gerard Pansanel : [email protected]

Gerard Pansanel Biography Born february 29th 1952 in Montpellier-France Grew up in cinema-halls where his father was projectionist and his mother was cinema-usherette. Self taught guitarist, live beginnings in rythmn and blues, rock and dance groups (1968 / 72). . Discovers jazz and improvisation at the same period with Jean-Luc Parodi, Joseph Dejean & Jean Pierre Mas. - 1975 moved to Paris : concerts with Aldo Romano, Bernard Lubat... - 75 to 78 Tours in Canada and all Europ with pop singer Michel Fugain and the Big Bazar... - 81 / 82 Los Angeles : studies with Joe Diorio, Pat Martino, Robben Ford, John Abercrombie ... - 85 1st album Calypso (Owl records) with Aldo Romano, Doudou Gouirand, Antonello Salis and Michel Benita. - 87 Angouleme jazz Festival with Don Cherry and Doudou Gouirand. Records with them the Forgotten tales album. - 88 Paris jazz festival with Neneh Cherry / D. Gouirand project. - 89 Tours with Enrico Rava. - 89 / 91 Joins the National Jazz Orchestra (ONJ) directed by Claude Barthelemy. Tours in Europ, Irak, East Europ and Japan . 2 albums with ONJ: Claire & Jack-Line (Label bleu) - 87 to 99 Tours in all Europ, Algeria, Burkina-Faso, Cabo-Verde, Senegal, Gambia, Mauritania, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Equatorial-Guinea, Russia... Many tours in Italy, Sardinia and Sicilia in duo with Antonello Salis. - 95 - Nino Rota / Fellini project by Gouirand and Pansanel with Yves Robert, Michel Godard, Michel Marre, JJ Avenel, Joel Allouche, Antonello Salis, Helene Labarrière, Jacques Bernard (guests: Lester Bowie, Enrico Rava, Paolo Fresu, JF Canape ...) More than 130 concerts and festivals in France, Switzerland, Germany, Finland, Spain, Italy … - Concerts in Manchester (England) and France with the Cross Channel band ( Kevin Davy, Sylvan Richardson, Mike Wilson... - 96 - Concerts and CD with Navigators (featuring Paolo Fresu, Furio di Castri...) Cinema : studio sessions on soundtracks for Jean-Pierre Mocky, A. Jodorovsky... - Oct 97 Composer and musician in Eric Rohmer 's movie Conte d'Automne.(Autumn tale) (Best script price - Venice Mostra 98) . - May / June 98 : Russia tour ( Moscou, Orel, Tula, Voronej, Kursk, Tambov, Lipetsk ...) with many great russians jazz artists like Leonid Vinskievitch, Lembit Saarsalu …

- May 99 International Guitar Festival. Concerts in duo with american guitarist John Stowell and in 4tet with Enrico Rava, Aldo Romano & M. Bénita - 99/2001 Forms the Orchestra Frizzante with Claude Barthelemy and Patrick Vaillant, Fethi Tabet, Fred Monino, Nedim Nalbantoglu, Régis Huby, Joel Allouche...(Festivals Radio-France-Montpellier, Assier, Marseille, Fort de France / Martinique, Paris ...) - 2002 Junas jazz Festival : Transalpino Project with Claudio Pontiggia, Heiri Kaenzig, Antonello Salis & Patrice Heral.- Rome Festival in duo with Antonello Salis. - Montpellier International Guitar Festival. Gerard Pansanel invits Henri Texier, Paolo Fresu, Claude Barthelemy, Serge Lazarevitch, Antonello Salis, Fred Monino, Joel Allouche... - Toreros de Salon ( texts of Camilo-Jose Cela - Nobel price of Literature 1989) Acting and Music with Hervé Peziere & Charles Calamel. - Participation to Michel Marre projects Cossi Anatz (70's), Sardana jazz (90's) - Joins the Jean-Marc Padovani Out project (Eric Dolphy's musics) with Sebastien Texier, Jacques Mahieux, Olivier Sens, Frank Tortiller, Michel Marre. CD and concerts... - Cinema Paradiso with Doudou Gouirand & Lionel Suarez. Creation for « Music and Dance in Languedoc-Roussillon » Festival 2002 (musics of mediterranean countries films). Also concerts at Junas jazz Festival and Mediterranean Films Festival of Montpellier (with additional musicians like JP Llabador, Louis Petrucciani, Thomas Bienabe... - 2004 International Guitar Festival. Gerard Pansanel invits belgium guitarist Philip Catherine with Furio di Castri, Michel Marre and Patrice Heral. Teaching : Los Angeles GIT graduate in 82 and French jazz State diploma in 2002 (D.E). Guitar clinics in festivals, music schools, master classes, conservatories of music... - For 10 years, one week July summer session in Vauvert (Gard - France) . Clinics and concerts Nov 97 Teaches to 10 african guitar players (Equatorial-Guinea, Cameroun) at French Culture Institute of Malabo (Equatorial-Guinea)- 2005 / 2006 Monthly clinics for Music and Dance teaching department (Languedoc-Roussillon Cultural Direction - DRAC). - 1980 to 2006 Albums « Monta-vida, Et pourtant elle tourne, El Jinete, Co milhor de Marti » and many tours in Europ with singer/poet/writer/story-teller, icon of Occitania Claude Marti, with bass player Pierre Peyras.- Dec 97 Beyond the Sierras (Tales & Music) with Claude Marti & Antonello Salis at Art sacré Paris Festival & june 98 at

Printemps des Comédiens of Montpellier. Creations : 83 Repérages - 92 Chaplin musics - 94 Négociations secrètes 95 Nino Rota / Fellini - 99 Orchestra Frizzante - 2002 Cinema Paradiso, Transalpino project - 2005 Electrizzante... - Creations with JM Padovani : Sud, Mingus, Diverses blessures (with Enzo Corman), Out….and with Michel Marre : Cossi anatz, Sardana jazz ... Trio with Michel Marre and Patrice Héral - 2006 Album Electrizzante with Antonello Salis, Patrice Heral , Lionel Suarez and André Minvielle. (CD and concerts) Arranging and Production of album « Co milhor de Marti » 2007 projects : - Solo album - Trio album with Arild Andersen & Patrice Héral - New Marti album and Film about Marti for TV

1984 - 2006 : 8 albums as a leader (see web site discography). 1975 / 2006 Concerts and studio with : Antonello Salis, Lester Bowie, Enrico Rava, Don Cherry, John Abercrombie, Aldo Romano, Dino Saluzzi, Paolo Fresu, Archie Shepp, Claude Barthelemy, Philip Catherine, Michel Portal, Billy Hart, Ron Mc Clure, Roberto Gatto, Daniel Humair, Henri Texier, Gérard Marais, Patrice Heral, Michel Marre, Doudou Gouirand, J.M Padovani, Johny Dyani, Glenn Ferris, Bernard Lubat, Furio di Castri, Michel Benita, Lionel Suarez, Riccardo del Fra, Joel Allouche, Clifford Jarvis, Michel Godard, Sangoma Everett, Lindley Marthe, Andy Mc Kee, André Ceccarelli, Chris Mc Gregor, Philippe Deschepper, Raymond Boni, Simon Goubert, Siegfried Kessler, Gianluca Petrella, Danilo Terenzi, Renaud Garcia-Fons, Jean-Louis Matinier, Paolino della Porta, Antoine Hervé, JJ Avenel, John Stowell, Claudio Pontiggia, François Laizeau, Sebastien Texier, Jean-Marie Machado, François Corneloup, Jacques Mahieux, Denis Fournier, Michael Riessler, Joe Lee Wilson, Nabil Khalidi, Nedim Nalbantoglu, Kevan Chemirani, Kudsi Erguner, Pierre Dorge, Herwig Gradishnik, Simon Sprang-Hansen, Frank Tortiller, Marc Bertaux, Frederic Monino, Zool Fleisher, Baptiste Trottignon, Geoffroy de Masure, J.L Chautemps, Santi de Briano, François Thuiller, Lembit Saarsalu, Bobby Rangell... and also with : Emilie Simon, Vinko Globokar, Soriba Kouyate, Phil Manzanera, Steve Hillage, Michel Fugain & Big Bazar, Pascal Comelade, General Alcazar, Gustavo Beytelman, Carolyn Carlson, Luther Allison, Zab & Guy Skornik, Claude Marti, Pedro Soler, François Beranger, Gianfranco Buffa, Neneh Cherry ...