FRANCE: Sport et Couture - Amestoy Trio

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It's about an album, an album for a second family, because Jean-Luc Amestoy has his fingers in every pie when it comes to music in Toulouse. One day he's with Pradal, playing it Argentinian, the next he's gone all andalusian with Sandoval, another he is off on the warpath with Les Motivés and, yet another, he's Kabylian with 100% Collègues. This is the album of a trio - accordion, guitar and tuba. Tree utensils - three cooks -ten fingers each. A tuba like a heartbeat. A hint of guitar, just a sprinkling rather than piled on by the ladle. Sobriety itself. This may all feel strangely Mediterranean, bathed by that sea of all excess. Well it ain't. The notes, the touch and the arrangements are delicate. Stitched by hand, you could say, like a pullover, but with fingers instead of a needle -and carefully does it with the finish. The simplest gear, but tailored by couturiers who are only too pleased not to have to change the world. Just to make it a bit better to live in. Popular music, but not hammered out. Like licking the sea without getting your face splashed. That's what this album is all about."