Lots of things moving on the French harp side !
Greg Szlapczynski recently announced the re-release of his four albums, three of which are out of print : Ternaire Madness, Gregtime, La Part du Diable and Varsovie will be remastered and rereleased with a new (and hopefully more stable) distributor, following Greg's current distributor going bust.
Meanwhile, jazz diatonicist Sébastien Charlier is working on concepts for new albums, one of them in a jazz rock approach. Sébastien is a huge Alan Holdsworth fan, so this could be interesting ! Let's just hope he doesn't push the synth-harp concept too far ! He's also thinking about a more electro-jazz thing. Meanwhile, he's been invited to guest on the recently released Six et Demi record Hommage à Claude Nougaro. Six et demi is a vocal group doing strange and wonderful arrangements of jazz standards.
Olivier Ker Ourio is also featured on a couple of recently released records, namely bassist Frédéric Monino's Around Jaco and guitarist Sylvain Luc's Joko. He's been touring with Sylvain Luc for a good while now, and they are due to enter the studio together for Olivier's new record in eraly December.
Finally, (not so) elder statesman of the French bluesharp JJ Milteau has just finished the mastering of a live record to be released in February. It features stuff recorded during his 2005 tours and apparently, it's very gritty !
Looks like Spring of 2007 will not be easy on my wallet...
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