A Catalan Freedom

Fantasy, true freedom of tone, a taste for the unusual instruments, a distance from any opportunistic approach, too, year after year, the Perpignan Pascal Comelade cobbled wonders and distills valuable a catalog that never ends lie all references recommended.
Take randomly his own 2009 A Freak Serenade, slide it in the drawer for this purpose and immerse yourself in the small world quite familiar and yet totally unique with a instrumentalist / arranger / composer that does not cold ears and knows love with a post-classical minimalism that is, creating charming little vignettes populated instruments toys, shiny brass, delicate pianos and, obviously, know-how ensures success of the company. We could stop here actually, because everything is said, except that the gentleman has good influences it would be foolish not to include (Erik Satie, Nino Rota, to citeur and they go too deflower the work of exquisite surprises it contains), and has, himself, a lot of people whose influence is obvious! A Yann Tiersen who owes him much, even dramatically. But where Breton is predominantly in the bittersweet nostalgia drag Comelade know a sun and a joy for all but surprising if this Catalan viscerally attached to his origins. And who knows to surround himself, moreover, finely selected musicians and headed bringing a freshness and up, and a sense of musical humor more, are a pleasure to hear in music between tradition and modernism, between folk or popular music and a melodic classicism revisited always "spot on".
Timeless geographically moving too, the art of Pascal Comelade, whatever the cake so much because the work of the gentleman of impeccable consistency is those little pleasures that happens under the cloak of these beautiful secrets that it is high time to advertise. Here, it gives a Freak Serenade very very successful and highly recommended course.

1. A Freak Serenade 5:20
2. The Return Of The Magician 3:32 Lux Interior
3. A Cigaret THE estatua D'en Gardel 2:11
4. Two Manic Depressive Beatnicks squabbling Over A Jane Russell's Mozzarella Stereokini 2:39
5. Perque Vull 2:09
6. El Misteri Triangle Del Del Vermut 2:56
7. Ramblin 'Rose 2:43
8. Striptease From Mosques In Patinet 4:16
9. 3 Eyed Hot Dog Belly-Dance 3:02
10. Europe Change Bad 4:19
11. From enterrament Sardines 2:46
12. No Hands! 2:05
13. The Beat Do not Make The Monk 3:19
14. Vals 3:06 Burlesco

Pascal Comelade - piano, toy piano, accordion, guitar, organ (+ other unspecified instruments)
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Roger Fortea - bass, trumpet, hiparxiologic Sonoton
Oriol Luna - drums, percussion, guitar
Ivan Martinez - guitar, bandurria, vocals
Pep Pascual - trumpet, castanets, baritone saxophone, musical saw, clarinet, tuba, musical percolator, drums
Lionel Limiñana - electric guitar
Fakir Tremolo - violin
Patrick Felices - double bass
Gerard Meloux - auto-harp
Enric Casasses - triangle
Max Pascual - accordio