Emmanuel Baily - Night Stork (2015)

The first album from guitarist Emmanuel Baily is an exercise in musical lyricism and Baroque expression with the energy of contemporary jazz. For several years already, he has been marrying these elements together naturally through his composing.

By training, Emmanuel Baily is a classical musician that is active as an arranger, composer and performer with styles that are at times contemporary (Conference of the Birds, Orchestra ViVo!), jazz (Kind of Pink) or oriental (Alefba).

At the crossroads of these influences, his début album offers a fascinating eclectic repertoire, where each track follows the other in perfect coherence.
The music of “Night Storks” is inventive and melodic with personal compositions but also singular arrangements of Bach, Pat Metheny, Jimmy Page and a singular arrangement of “Feuilles mortes/Autumn Leaves”.

For this intensely personal approach, Baily called on exceptional musicians from very different musical horizons. The elegance of Lambert Colson‘s cornett (well known in France Baroque circles) is combined with the suave clarinet playing of Jean-François Foliez (Music 4 a While). The cutting sound of Khaled Aljaramani’s oud (Interzone) acts almost as a mirror image of the guitar and brings an Oriental feel. And the riotous drumming of Xavier Rogé (Ibrahim Maalouf, Darwin Case…) throws an intense and creative light on the guitarist’s compositions and arrangements.

A poetic journey to the limits of baroque, jazz and traditional music.