About
As we had just entered the first lockdown, with an entire season of concerts canceled, Frédéric Leibovitz from Cezame Music Agency made me an exciting proposal: "Why not create a thematic album like Méditerranées from ten years ago, an album focused on the double bass, we could call it Cinematic Bass?"
Of course, we immediately thought of the film scores from the 50s and 60s noir films, where the double bass, with its walking bass lines, plays a prominent role in accompanying suspense, chases, night-time wanderings, and so on, whether in French or American gangster films, B-movies, or in the works of the French New Wave.
Building upon compositions that reference several decades of jazz in film, new ideas slowly emerged, inspired by world music, from the Orient to the West, including Africa.
Thanks to the many facets of the double bass and its various playing techniques—pizzicato, bowing, pizz d'arco, percussion, and various effects—the project expanded, enriched by new colors, creating a vast variety of soundscapes and atmospheres.
Drums, vibraphone, vocals, percussion, and some rare keyboards complete these orchestrations, which are resolutely centered around a multi-faceted double bass, from the deep to the extreme high end—a double bass in all its forms.
You now have in your hands the result of this exploration, under the title Cinematic Double Bass. It consists of 44 pieces spread over two CDs: In a Jazzy Mood and In a Spirit of Travel, two collections of music for films that don't yet exist...
Renaud Garcia-Fons: 5-string double bass, Percussions, Vocals, Keyboards
Stéphan Caracci: Drums, Vibraphone
Solea Garcia-Fons: Vocals
Video
Tracklist
CD 1 In a Jazzy Mood
1. Breakneck Speed
2. Across the Golden Gate
3. Small Screen Girls
4. Jungle Drums Swinging Bass
5. The Thrill of the Chase
6. Film Noir Blues
7. The Suspense Is Killing
8. Whistle By Night
9. Motor Town Groove
10. Close Up View
11. Snap ‘n’ Scat
12. On the Prowl Again
13. Silver Fingers
14. Down Home Blues
15. Easy As Pie
16. City of Embers
17. Good Time Swing
18. Waiting for Nothing at All
19. Running Scared
20. Like a Déjà Vu
21. Window Shopping
22. Detective Movie Addiction
2’32
3’34
1’59
3’33
3’01
3’27
2’44
3’16
5’21
3’24
3’28
4’00
2’25
1’56
1’53
2’50
1’43
3’24
2’42
2’51
3’53
3’02
CD2 In a Spirit of Travel
1. Travel Wide Travel Wild
2. Nowruz Celebration
3. Savanna Rainfall
4. Long Distance Run
5. Jewish Tarantella
6. Lemurian Groove
7. Global Village Dweller
8. Soledad del Exilio
9. Imaginary Folk Dance
10. Djumbo Steps
11. The Open Road
12. City Night Stalking
13. Bossa Nicely
14. Invitation au Voyage
15. No More Moarnin’
16. Narita Express
17. Ice and Fire
18. Towards a New World
19. Unknown Adventure
20. Desert Reflection
21. Beyond the Dream
22. Going Home
3’08
3’21
2’44
4’02
2’49
2’07
5’10
2’15
4’43
3’36
3’11
2’17
3’56
3’01
3’20
3’48
2’30
2’56
4’15
2’44
3’58
3’12
About
As we had just entered the first lockdown, with an entire season of concerts canceled, Frédéric Leibovitz from Cezame Music Agency made me an exciting proposal: "Why not create a thematic album like Méditerranées from ten years ago, an album focused on the double bass, we could call it Cinematic Bass?"
Of course, we immediately thought of the film scores from the 50s and 60s noir films, where the double bass, with its walking bass lines, plays a prominent role in accompanying suspense, chases, night-time wanderings, and so on, whether in French or American gangster films, B-movies, or in the works of the French New Wave.
Building upon compositions that reference several decades of jazz in film, new ideas slowly emerged, inspired by world music, from the Orient to the West, including Africa.
Thanks to the many facets of the double bass and its various playing techniques—pizzicato, bowing, pizz d'arco, percussion, and various effects—the project expanded, enriched by new colors, creating a vast variety of soundscapes and atmospheres.
Drums, vibraphone, vocals, percussion, and some rare keyboards complete these orchestrations, which are resolutely centered around a multi-faceted double bass, from the deep to the extreme high end—a double bass in all its forms.
You now have in your hands the result of this exploration, under the title Cinematic Double Bass. It consists of 44 pieces spread over two CDs: In a Jazzy Mood and In a Spirit of Travel, two collections of music for films that don't yet exist...
Renaud Garcia-Fons: 5-string double bass, Percussions, Vocals, Keyboards
Stéphan Caracci: Drums, Vibraphone
Solea Garcia-Fons: Vocals
Video
Tracklist
CD 1 In a Jazzy Mood
1. Breakneck Speed
2. Across the Golden Gate
3. Small Screen Girls
4. Jungle Drums Swinging Bass
5. The Thrill of the Chase
6. Film Noir Blues
7. The Suspense Is Killing
8. Whistle By Night
9. Motor Town Groove
10. Close Up View
11. Snap ‘n’ Scat
12. On the Prowl Again
13. Silver Fingers
14. Down Home Blues
15. Easy As Pie
16. City of Embers
17. Good Time Swing
18. Waiting for Nothing at All
19. Running Scared
20. Like a Déjà Vu
21. Window Shopping
22. Detective Movie Addiction
2’32
3’34
1’59
3’33
3’01
3’27
2’44
3’16
5’21
3’24
3’28
4’00
2’25
1’56
1’53
2’50
1’43
3’24
2’42
2’51
3’53
3’02
CD2 In a Spirit of Travel
1. Travel Wide Travel Wild
2. Nowruz Celebration
3. Savanna Rainfall
4. Long Distance Run
5. Jewish Tarantella
6. Lemurian Groove
7. Global Village Dweller
8. Soledad del Exilio
9. Imaginary Folk Dance
10. Djumbo Steps
11. The Open Road
12. City Night Stalking
13. Bossa Nicely
14. Invitation au Voyage
15. No More Moarnin’
16. Narita Express
17. Ice and Fire
18. Towards a New World
19. Unknown Adventure
20. Desert Reflection
21. Beyond the Dream
22. Going Home
3’08
3’21
2’44
4’02
2’49
2’07
5’10
2’15
4’43
3’36
3’11
2’17
3’56
3’01
3’20
3’48
2’30
2’56
4’15
2’44
3’58
3’12