Amestoy Trio
The Amestoy Trio, hailing from Toulouse France, plays enchanting and delicate music with a decidedly Mediterranean swing. Flashes of musette, tango and samba flow in and out of this music like warm breezes. The combined timbres of accordion, guitar and tuba create a familiar sound that crosses musical boundaries effortlessly. 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 the music in Toulouse. One day he's with Pradal, playing it Argentinian, the next he's gone all Andalusian with Sandoval, another he's off on the warpath with Les Motives and, yet another, he's Kabylian. This is the albulm of a trio - accordian, guitar, and tuba. Three 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.