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Bel Air For Piano - Hervé Celcal (2013 Ting Bang - Deb's Music)
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HERVÉ CELCAL (english biography)
Hervé Celcal starts learning classic piano at the age of 7 on his native island Martinique (France, West Indies) and continues his lessons at L école normale Alfred Cortot in Paris (France). He meets the jazz pianist Bernard Maury, who proposes to join his teaching staff in the school he has just founded . But Hervé is already on stage doing keyboards for various artists (Oliver Ngoma , Sally Nyolo , Admiral T doing the orchestral arrangements for his live shows , Dédé St. Prix ...)
Today, Hervé Celcal is working as a pianist on a very personal acoustic project inspired by the traditional music of Martinique, the bèlè : « bel air for piano » , « bèlè ba piano » in french creole. A sort of franco-anglo-creole title for a universal project.
Within the bèlè, wich is intimately linked to drums, Hervé introduces a novelty, his instrument : the piano and all the modern aspects of jazz spirit.
Since he didnt know how to play drums (at a time when drums were less valorised than today), Hervé worked at recreating the same sounds and evoking the melodious chants of the singer and « the repondè » (the chorists) with his piano. Thats when the different bèlè rhythms impregnate Herves compositions : woulé mango, ting bang , beguine bèlè , to the extent that even on solo piano , they live on with force. He also honored the different musical forms issued from this local culture : beguine, mazurka , chouval bwa, quadrille, creole waltz. This already very rich body fusions very well, thanks to the genius of belè wich recreates jazz, its harmonies, its improvisations, basically : its spirit, which explodes on stage !
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