Lydie Auvray – trailer film for DVD “Soirée”

A concert to mark Lydie Auvray’s 30th anniversary on stage: classic compositions from all periods of her history, re-imagined and re-arranged for now. There are some real surprises in there including special guest performances by Elke Heidenreich, Hannes Wader, Stefan Stoppok and String Quartet Indigo. – Taken from the DVD “Soirée” – Westpark Music 2008 (www.WestparkMusic.de). This anniversary concert is available also on CD. —

Even if there were a hundred accordion-players playing together, you would still be able to hear Lydie Auvray standing out. Her sound has verve and mellowness; her intelligent and impulsive playing can make one easily forget that this instrument, even in the Musette variant, has its limits. In Lydie’s play those limits seem far away. – There are tints of Cajun, Musette, Tango and Anglo-Saxon folk music, there is the rhythm of the Caribbean, Africa and Latin America, the dreamy, sleepwalking, enchanted element of a film-elegy and the solid motor movement of pop, rock and the blues. But in everything we hear there is that “Auvraity”, the very distinct personal sense created by this band with this front woman.

Duration : 0:2:40