Linea Del Sur (Dig)

Renaud Garcia-Fons | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 14, 2009)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Enja
• ASIN: B001MUJSBO
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #181,013 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Renaud Garcia-Fons is one of the pillars of ENJA--this is his 8th album for the label. There are multiple sources for his musical inspiration. He feels as close to the music of the Mediterranean and Asia as to the flamenco tradition, which he has transposed for the double bass.

Features the great flamenco singer Esperanza Fernandez, a grand voice of flamenco who expands the frontiers of Andalusia all the way to the New World.

"The Paganini of the double bass." -- Bass Player magazine

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars another masterful release from this incomparable musician, April 17, 2009

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While I love every CD I have by Renaud Garcia-Fons I'm especially delighed with this new recording. The compositions are as intricate and lovely as ever and the musicianship all around is incredible, but because it's mostly a trio the interaction among the instruments is especially clear. How is is possible that Garcia-Fons's bass playing continues to improve?

The three tracks with the flamenco vocalist sent shivers up my spine - pure devotion that's completely worthy of the Rumi poetry cited as the inspiration on Garcia-Fons's excellent web site. Music of this caliber is very rare.

5.0 out of 5 stars Best 5 string Bass Player, February 25, 2011

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This review is from: Linea Del Sur (Dig) (Audio CD)

I heard about Garcia-Fons in an interview on NPR and got hooked into hearing more.
The music of his new release (Mediterranees) was riveting. He finds the common musical thread of the music of cultures around the mediterrean basin and succedes in putting it forth in inspired compositions. Linea del Sur is his 2009 release, it blends Latin American music and the music of Spain with outstanding virtuoso playing, percusions, bandeneon, guitar, fabulous vocals and of course the ever enthralling bass of Renaud Garcia-Fons. I haven't been excited by a jazz player/composer like Renaud in more than a decade! I very highly recommend Linea del Sur.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Invigorating island intellectualism, January 19, 2010

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3 1/2


This notable jazz bassist continues down an exotically inundated, technically accentuated path often at the expense of personal involvement. Things do align enough, however, to showcase some phenomenally far away grooves.