Ludovic Beier - Made in Black (2021)

You can imagine that to captivate an audience with a solo accordion album you have to have it in your hands! And this is the case with Ludovic Beier, who is not what you would call a beginner in the field. Lee musician has already recorded 5 albums with Angelo Debarre, including one with singer Sansaverino, he crossed paths with James Carter, Joe Lovano and Tom Scott, (all three saxophonist, clarinetist and jazz flautist), he played in several times in the United States, at the San Francisco Jazz Festival, at the Newport Festival or at the Birdland in New York. Ludovic Beier has also performed with Toots Thielemans, Herbie Hancock and Eliane Elias at Carnegie Hall in New York, with Django Allstars and Melody Gardot… He again produced, signed, composed and arranged Guy Marchand's superb last album. , Born in Belleville, an opus rated “indispensable” by the editorial staff of Paris-Move and of which you can find the chronicle HERE. This time, he wrote, improvised, produced and arranged the 11 tracks that make up this logbook that is Made in Black, a veritable multicolored palette where, by subtle successive touches, the musician takes us in a sound whirlwind suggesting a thousand and one different atmospheres, a thousand and one acoustic universes in which we float with pleasure and delight! Gypsy music is present on this opus, but mixed with others, because the sphere of jazz is vast and the artist accompanies us in the exploration of certain musical forms with shared pleasure and crazy intensity. An album that will give a huge slap to all those who think that the suspender piano is an instrument of the past or out of date. An album of such beauty that he shelved quite a few albums that we thought were good, very good, even excellent. A Made in Black which offers you in 11 tracks all the colors of the musical rainbow, an album which blows up the glass ceiling of excellence and which naturally stands out in line with the essentials of this beginning of decade. Indispensable, simply essential!