Jeu

Robert Schumann, Alban Berg, Franz Schubert, Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Arnold Schoenberg, Georges Brassens –to name but a few – all play hide-and-go-seek with Louise Jallu and her bandoneon leading the band. The game gleefully alternates between the past and the present. Is it Louise's way of playing snakes and ladders or is it a Jallusian operation (one ear turned backwards, the other toward the unheard), on a Janusian model? In her compositions, Louise Jallu plays with homages to her predecessors by renewing her identity in a dazzling role-playing game.

Pierre Gervasoni

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Schumann et Wozzeck - Louise Jallu
Une milonga en mi majeur - Louise Jallu
Pugnani–Jallu - Fritz Kreisler d’après Prélude et Allegro
Mon boléro Louise - Jallu d’après Maurice Ravel
Une milonga en blues - Louise Jallu
B.W.V 1016, sous turbulences - Louise Jallu d’après Jean-Sebastien Bach
Toi qui as besoin d’eau* - Georges Brassens d’après Les Sabots d’Hélène
La milonga transfigurée - Louise Jallu
À Gennevilliers, toujours - Louise Jallu

Louise Jallu, bandoneon and composition
Mathias Lévy, violin
Karsten Hochapfel, electric guitar
Grégoire Letouvet, piano and keyboards
Alexandre Perrot, double bass
Ariel Tessier, drums
Gino Favotti, additional sounds

Arrangements by Louise Jallu and Bernard Cavanna

*Guests
Cali, vocals
Coco-Grace Caliciuri, cello