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2018 Hot Club de France and New Orleans Jazz
001-2018-017
43:02 Master Camera files on Hard Drive, Mp4 on Server and Cloud
2018-05-03
Raphael Bas of Harmonouche; Interviewer - Tom McDermott
ABSTRACT: 00:32 Bas explains how a festival in the town where he grew up exposed him to a great variety of music and musicians. 01:50 Bas emphasizes Django Reinhart’s influence. 02:20 Bas explains the name of his band, Harmonouche, a mash-up between harmonica or harmonies and ‘manouche,’ a French term for gypsy or gypsy music. 02:54 Bas tells how he’s essentially advocating for the harmonica, trying to place it as a lead instrument, which he calls “the accordion of the poor.” 04:31 Demonstration, “Douce Ambiance” 09:09 Bas describes his father’s musical influence, explaining how he was the only musical member n his family. He explains that he did not have his first formal guitar lesson until he was thirty-two. 10:51 Bas explains how much of Django’s recordings came from American music, and that he sort of feels like he’s now doing that in reverse, adding his French touch to the music he’s learning in the States. 12:08 Bas tells how “Sheik of Araby” was a hit in France under a different title. 12:39 Demonstration, “Sheik of Araby” 18:53 Bas expresses his desire to demonstrate musette, selecting a song taught to him by a friend who recently passed away and was a master accordion player. 19:37 Demonstration, “Swing Valse” 24:20 Demonstration, “NolAmour” 27:17 Bas acknowledges Baden Powell as an influence, and emphasizes the diversity of genres of what and who inspired him. As he says, “when it’s good, it’s good.” 29:32 Demonstration, musette 36:09 Demonstration
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