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Souvenir de Porto Rico feat. Leyla McCalla, String Noise

from R​ê​ve du Troubadour by Louis Michot

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Over the last 10 years I began to hear about Louis Moreau Gottschalk, the French Creole composer born in Haiti and raised in Louisiana. Some classical music academia call him the only one of the first American musicians to achieve widespread recognition in both Europe and the Americas. Gottschalk was also known as one of the only musicians to record (thru written music, before the invention of recording devices) the music of the new world, which was actively fusing European dances with African rhythms, from Bamboula of Congo Square in New Orleans, to recently fused and fresh musical forms from Cuba to Brazil. Louis Moreau continuously traveled latin America, and gave “monster concerts” with up to a thousand musicians performing at once, to provide enough sound and dynamics to inundate entire city squares in music. Based on the Aguinaldo “Si Me Dan Pasteles”, a chant-like melody sung during Christmas season by the Jibaro, a people who farm the lands in the countryside, Louis Moreau subtitled the composition composed “La Marche des Gibaros”

Souvenir de Porto Rico was composed by Gottschalk in 1856 during his stay in Plazuela, as he lived withdrawn from society for many months in a tropical retreat on the edge of an extinct volcano. As stated by the composer himself in his journal “perched upon the edge of the crater, on the very top of the mountain, my cabin overlooked the whole country. The rock on which it was built hung over a precipice whose depths were concealed by cacti, convolvuleses and bamboos…Every evening I moved my piano out upon the terrace, and there, in view of the most beautiful scenery in the world, which was bathed by the serene and limnpid atmostphere of the tropics, I played, for myself alone, everything that the scene opened up before me inspired…it was there that I composed “La Marche des Gibaros”…”

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from R​ê​ve du Troubadour, released September 22, 2023
composed by Louis Moureau Gottschalk, 1865

Louis Michot – electric guitar
Pauline Kim, Conrad Harris (String Noise) – violins
Leyla McCalla – cello
Bryan Webre – upright bass

Bird calls by Crows, Cardinals, and Kildeer

Engineered by Louis Michot
Additional engineering by Kirkland Middleton, Bryan Webre, String Noise

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Louis Michot Arnaudville, Louisiana

Louis Michot, most recognized as fiddle player and lead singer for Grammy award winning Lost Bayou Ramblers, channels his passion for local folklore, sustainability, Louisiana’s rapidly eroding coastline into a new solo creative expression, Rêve du Troubadour.

Rêve du Troubadour is an epic feast of Francophone songwriting, specific to Louisiana, inspired by one man’s wild, fantastical dreams. ... more

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