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Samoreau

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Daniel Weltlinger

Label: DMG Germany / Rectify Records
Released: 2017
Duration: 46:29
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Tracks

1 Alone - 2:42 2 Sur-Seine – 3:36 3 Les Enfants de Django – 4:50 4 The Family – 4:58 5 La Femme Sophistiquée – 4:52 6 Keith – 5:28 7 Samois – 5:04 8 Waterlillies – 4:25 9 3am Melun – 5:20 10 Ghosts – 3:26 11 Samoreau – 1:45

Personnel

Daniel Weltlinger

violin

Additional Personnel / Information

Daniel Weltlinger - violin (tracks 1-11) Lulo Reinhardt - rhythm guitar (tracks 2-10) solo guitar (tracks 2, 5, 7, 10) Christiano Gitano– rhythm guitar (tracks 2-10) solo guitar (tracks 3, 6-7, 10) Taylor Paucken – rhythm guitar (tracks 3-4, 7, 9-10) solo guitar (tracks 3-4, 7, 9-10) Jermaine Reinhardt – rhythm guitar (tracks 3-4, 7-8, 10) solo guitar (tracks 3-4, 7-8, 10) Romano Reinhardt – rhythm guitar (tracks 3-4, 7, 10) Harald Becher – bass (tracks 2-10) Winfried Schuld- accordion (tracks 2, 9) piano (8)

Album Description

In late June of 2004, several years after the tragic passing away of my father at the age of 54, I travelled by myself – all alone - for the very first time to the fabled 'Festival Django Reinhardt de Samois' outside of Paris, which I had for many years dreamed of attending. I had some weeks previously contacted Sylvia Rushbrooke (who runs the London Gypsy-jazz venue ‘Le Quecumbar’), and was invited to stay at the local campsite in the small town of Samoreau, several kilometres away from the festival site along the banks of the Seine river. At this campsite, as well as at the festival itself, I formed a very close bond with many people from across Europe and elsewhere in the world, who over the years have really become like family to me. This album is a tribute to this extended family, as well as to the innumerable fans of the music of Django Reinhardt around the world - which includes many friends from various Sinti families from across Western Europe who to this day I regularly perform with. It is also a tribute to the remarkable natural landscape of Samois-sur-Seine and Samoreau, as well as a tribute to nature itself. In early July of 2004 I also travelled for the very first time to the Rhineland city of Koblenz, Germany to meet up with guitarist Lulo Reinhardt, who I had met and befriended several years previously in Sydney, Australia. In Koblenz - a city rich in history and natural beauty where the Rhine and Moselle rivers meet at Deutsches Eck - I was befriended and virtually adopted by Lulo's family, who are almost all relatives of the legendary guitarist and composer Django Reinhardt and violinist Schnuckenack Reinhardt. This wonderful recording is recorded with Lulo and some of his very talented nephews, as well as with several musicians from Lulo's 'Latin-Swing-Project' which I have been recording and performing with now for some 12 years. 2004 marked the start of many years of travelling back and forth to two remarkable regions in Europe to spend time with and make music with what has become to me very much extended family. An annual pilgrimage that continues to this day, encompassing a never-ending kaleidoscope of experiences and feelings that deeply affects me and my music. 'Samoreau' represents the culmination of a trilogy of recordings that explore the deeper historical and humanistic connotations underlying the Gypsy-swing style primarily created by Django Reinhardt (1910-1953) that has spread far and wide across the world today. This trilogy would not have come about were it not for the extremely fortunate chance of being spotted at a private event in Sydney, Australia in 2010 by Didier Mahout from BNP Paribas. Didier took an instant liking to the music I was playing, and through his work at BNP Paribas helped me to receive a generous sponsorship from the bank to create this trilogy, for which I am eternally grateful. Whilest the first two albums ‘Souvenirs’ and ‘Koblenz’ respectively consist of the original compositions of Django Reinhardt and my own original compositions about the life of Django Reinhardt, this third album - also consisting of my original compositions - explores themes of universal humanity that are also alluded to within the first two albums.

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