Lionel Suarez & André Minvielle
Origin: France
When Minvielle meets Suarez, it’s a work of art.
Line-up
Lionel Suarez – accordion, André Minvielle – vocals, percussion, electronics
Artists
About us
André Minvielle sings. He chants. He raps. He is a ‘vocal alchemist’. Lionel Suarez is an accordionist. He moves from chanson to jazz and from jazz to chanson; he is a chameleon. Hailing from Gascony, Minvielle plays with languages and sounds: from blues to local dialect, his jazz waltzes, twirls and takes on a rough-and-ready edge. In Suarez, he finds an alter ego: a waltz virtuoso, a subtle jazzman and an unrivalled master of rhythm. Together, they whisk us away on a poetic journey where the voice is an instrument and the instrument is an orchestra. When Minvielle meets Suarez, the result is great art.
Mark your calendars – the duo are back together, and it’s brilliant!
“The sort that fill your body, heart and soul with the essential provisions to continue the journey, to invent another life, brimming with the energy of hope.”
Here you’ll find songs with lyrics and melodies of such great originality that, a century from now, we’ll be able to say they’re the sort that aren’t made any more.
André offers us treasures of poetry; the unique blend created by the upside-down nature of his words, their music and their accent takes us on multi-layered journeys, by turns joyful and imbued with ‘malinconia’ – the kind that brings tears to the eyes and transforms a sombre mood into sumptuous landscapes bathed in light.
As for Lionel, I’d say he embraces music wholeheartedly, just as he holds his accordion. Hearing just a few notes is enough for me to recognise him. It is the hallmark of great accordionists that one can identify them so readily. I imagine our two friends performing as a duo, radiant tightrope walkers, without wires or safety nets, the accordion wide open serving as their counterweight, propelled by the combined energies of the bellows’ air and their voices, with the azure sky on a summer’s evening as their only canopy.”
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