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Jungle Gentle Jig

by FWWU (Fire Walk With Us)

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First release by Alina : alinamusica.blogspot.com/2018/11/steve-gibbs-christian-vasseur-fwwu.html

What an astonishing and captivating experience it is to discover this CD that transports us into an utterly contemporary sound world, while at the same time conveying a founding essence so primary, and truly ontological, that it plunges us into a time before Time. Listening to this music, we feel our age old roots, buried in the dark night of the passing millennia, coming to life. The pieces proposed here by Steve Gibbs and Christian Vasseur recreate the concept of ritual, but outside of any socially sanctioned form, for the music here refers to no specific known ritual, while embodying them all.

In so doing, these two artists connect with the sense of the Sacred (not as some reliquary of religious spirit, but as an intrinsic human condition - insofar as the species, as far back as we can trace its evolution, has never ceased to be sensitive to the expression of all that is potent, fearful, mysterious, magical and inexplicable). This sense of the Sacred – which assuredly can only be perceived implicitly, but which remains inexhaustible despite all attempts at religious discourse seeking to induce, support or over-determine it – is expressed here in these pieces with a force so self-evident that our adhesion is guaranteed.

This “transcendent” character, musically audible and fully assumed, animates these musicians’ sonic universe, without in any way renouncing the century in which they were born, or the most avant-garde playing techniques. Many of these techniques they invent themselves, and use them as so many expressive tools - not as an aesthetic “end in itself” or an inane and sterile quest for “novelty for the sake of novelty”, but at the service of a profoundly original world of music thinking and discourse.

This “experimental” music, approaching the guitar and lute with such intelligence, inventiveness and sensitivity, carries these instruments far outside the comfortably beaten paths of the known, without a hint of compromise to fashion. For these musicians know perfectly well that fashion “is and always will be … that which goes out of fashion”. Their music, on the contrary, touches on the timeless! The experience is surprising, as our ear is immediately captivated by the mode of listening they offer us, awakening our senses to a vision of a world unknown, yet strangely familiar. A world that speaks of us, echoing a deeper self that we all have inside us, but have simply forgotten …

“Jungle Gentle Jig” is a rare and precious CD that pulls off the tour de force of taking us beyond the fragile frontier of ethos, bearer of emotion, the intangible and the unspeakable (because unnamable). A pure black diamond, an absolute must listen. As for me, I’m going back to it right now!

Alain Feron (composer)

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released November 27, 2019

Steve Gibbs: eight string classical guitar, objects and voice
Christian Vasseur: Archlute, objects and voice
Recording and mixing: Christian Vasseur

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Christian Vasseur France

Christian Vasseur's music is free of any form of dogma. As a protean musician he often takes part in interdisciplinary events where music combines with other artistic media.

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