Jean Claude Vannier =jean claude vannier et son orchestre de mandolines 14/4/25
the project was born from an unusual encounter between the man the press call ‘the rare bird’ and the famous mandolinist from marseilles, a pioneer in the revival of this small mediterranean lute.jean claude vannier has created an album that is both poetic and out of step, in which the mandolin is multiplied to form a singular orchestral sound palette, mingled with the accordion’s soufflet and the composer’s use of the solo mandolin: taping, bottleneck, percussion, treble. a pinch of strings, a hint of childhood, melodies that touch the heart, orchestration that’s never expected - these are the emotions that emerge from this album by jean claude vannier. “when i was a child, my parents used to take me to parc montsouris, where the mandolin club de paris played regularly! i loved it right away. the sound, and above all the emotion i felt, which is still there. so when vincent came to see me, i started writing a lot of stuff for him, with his fifty or so mandolins, high and low, these mandolins, mandolone and accordion. this orchestra is extraordinary. a crazy thing! what appealed to me was that it could be written and arranged for a large mandolin orchestra. i created this new album as the musical score for a silent film, and we recorded it in marseille, in this city where mandolins fall from trees.” - jean claude vannier
the project was born from an unusual encounter between the man the press call ‘the rare bird’ and the famous mandolinist from marseilles, a pioneer in the revival of this small mediterranean lute.jean claude vannier has created an album that is both poetic and out of step, in which the mandolin is multiplied to form a singular orchestral sound palette, mingled with the accordion’s soufflet and the composer’s use of the solo mandolin: taping, bottleneck, percussion, treble. a pinch of strings, a hint of childhood, melodies that touch the heart, orchestration that’s never expected - these are the emotions that emerge from this album by jean claude vannier. “when i was a child, my parents used to take me to parc montsouris, where the mandolin club de paris played regularly! i loved it right away. the sound, and above all the emotion i felt, which is still there. so when vincent came to see me, i started writing a lot of stuff for him, with his fifty or so mandolins, high and low, these mandolins, mandolone and accordion. this orchestra is extraordinary. a crazy thing! what appealed to me was that it could be written and arranged for a large mandolin orchestra. i created this new album as the musical score for a silent film, and we recorded it in marseille, in this city where mandolins fall from trees.” - jean claude vannier
the project was born from an unusual encounter between the man the press call ‘the rare bird’ and the famous mandolinist from marseilles, a pioneer in the revival of this small mediterranean lute.jean claude vannier has created an album that is both poetic and out of step, in which the mandolin is multiplied to form a singular orchestral sound palette, mingled with the accordion’s soufflet and the composer’s use of the solo mandolin: taping, bottleneck, percussion, treble. a pinch of strings, a hint of childhood, melodies that touch the heart, orchestration that’s never expected - these are the emotions that emerge from this album by jean claude vannier. “when i was a child, my parents used to take me to parc montsouris, where the mandolin club de paris played regularly! i loved it right away. the sound, and above all the emotion i felt, which is still there. so when vincent came to see me, i started writing a lot of stuff for him, with his fifty or so mandolins, high and low, these mandolins, mandolone and accordion. this orchestra is extraordinary. a crazy thing! what appealed to me was that it could be written and arranged for a large mandolin orchestra. i created this new album as the musical score for a silent film, and we recorded it in marseille, in this city where mandolins fall from trees.” - jean claude vannier