Composer & guitarist Quentin Dujardin creates a unique instrumental universe around his nylon-string guitars. Like a series of postcards, his music is imbued with intuitive experiences from the streets, landscapes lived and musicians encountered on the road. His guitars invite you to discover the music of a universal elsewhere and connect to our Western musical heritage in astonishing and unexpected ways.
The artistic production of the American Lee Townsend (Bill Frisell) reveals Dujardin’s sonic universe with extraordinary finesse and intelligence, taking his intense pan-stylistic musical vibrations further across many musical landscapes, whether classical, folk or purely acoustic, as in Papa Rosa, a tribute to the drummer and singer Brian Blade.
Make no mistake, the artist's guitar has no limit. Track after track Dujardin’s six-string magically erases distances to announce a new era without borders.
DISTANCES is the album that announces with groove and sensitivity that artistic maturity has arrived. From nylon to steel-string, through slide and ukulele, Dujardin reveals a universe that encompasses musical meetings that surprise, as in the song Ya Bai Miriam with the Palestinian a capella group El-Funoun. The exchange between the bewitching kanun of the Tunisian Hamza Mraihi and the Moroccan violin of Jalal El Allouli transcends the song Condroz, a composition dedicated to Dujardin’s homeland.
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