Tune up: Renaud Garcia Fons
Renaud Garcia Fons brings an international flavour to Tune Up with music influenced by France, North Africa, Spain and the Orient...
"You'd be mad to miss Renaud Garcia-Fons, a musician for whom the term virtuoso seems almost inadequate." - Rob Adams, The Herald
Renaud Garcia-Fons is of Spanish-French origin living and working out of Paris - one of those border-crossing virtuosos equally at home with contemporary classical music, jazz and South West European folklore.
He is a student of the great bass player François Rabbath, whose incredible bowing technique and Syrian-rooted compositions had a lasting impact on Renaud's unique musical conception that includes elements of flamenco, tango, Greek, Andalusian, African, Latin American, and Indian music.
An outstanding bassist himself and a miraculous con-arco player, Renaud has performed and/or recorded with such diverse colleagues as Lebanese oud player Rabih Abou-Khalil, Cheb Mami, German reed player Michael Riessler, flamenco guitarists Pedro Soler and Gerardo Nuñez, French Orchestre de Contrebasses , Orchestre National de Jazz, and French jazz guitarist, Nguyên Lê.
His own African-Mediterranean influenced quartet recording Alborea (released in late 1995), Oriental Bass (1998) and his CD Navigatore (2001) earned high critical acclaim for the sheer virtuosity of the playing and its strong musical vision.
Garcia-Fons is a virtuoso bass player unlike any you'll hear in this country. He plays a five-string acoustic bass with a bow, making his sometimes cumbersome instrument sing with a sound nearly as light and agile as a violin. "Garcia-Fons' technique is startling" - Boston Sunday Herald.
Renaud Garcia-Fons, sometimes called "The Paganini of the double bass," was featured as an unaccompanied soloist at the 1996 Berlin Jazz Festival. He also plays all over the world in duet with the accordionist Jean-Louis Matinier Fuera. As a composer, he has written music for ballet and TV specially ARTE: De la terre comme au ciel and Sperling und das letzte Tabu.
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