L'Annee De Vienne: Francoise Dolto - DVD

Messiaen/Henze/Holt [DIGITAL VIDEO DISC] Released 2001 product/publication from Image Entertainment

This film is a landmark in gypsy jazz, offering portraits of artists perpetuating the venerable legacy of Django Reinhardt. It was praised by critics and public alike when it was released in French cinemas in October 2012. Director Bruno Le Jean spent eight years filming the guitarists Angelo Debarre, Moreno, Ninine Garcia and Tchavolo Schmitt. His film portrays everyday music handed down orally from one generation to the next - from the federating of gypsies, Romanies and Tziganes into one great family, to the permits and expulsion of Roms - and treats all those themes with humanity, poetry and realism. The InchSons of the WindInch in the film's title convey the rich treasures of this community. Their contribution to western culture, especially jazz, is immeasurable.

Maurizio Guernieri's compositions are a part of an ongoing exploration of instrumental chamber music, in this case focused chiefly on string instruments. The pieces can be divided into two main groups. The first one is Elementa (InchelementsInch in Latin), meditations on the relationship between man and nature, and on the elements of nature, which, being often mismanaged by man, contribute to their own flourishing or decadence. Nature, which has always been called InchmotherInch, turns out to be an Inchevil stepmotherInch when she returns to man what he has given her in an extreme attempt to re-establish a balance that has been lost. The second group consists of other pieces that are meditations on man and his inner life. As in the previous CD, Bicinium (TC 940091), the pieces can be listened to in a single musical succession, as if the disc were, to use a term of the past, a Inchconcept album.Inch