Discography

Electrizzante mp3
The combination of these five marked musical personalities functions with wonder, in particular thanks to a particularly intelligent construction of album. Long unslung pieces often preceded by an introduction succeed skilfully short interludes more alleviating, and this alternation gets a remarkable atmosphere with the whole of the disc, subtle mixture of proximity, writing of spontaneousness. With final, therefore, the richness of the composition, improvisations, the pleasure of playing proclamation and extremely communicative make of Electrizzante an album in any successful point, to discover absolutely. (Arnaud Stefani - Citizen Jazz)
 
Gérard Pansanel (gt, electronics) Antonello Salis (acc) André Minvielle (voix, perc, electronics) Lionel Suarez (acc) Patrice Héral (d, perc, electronics)

Yalogo - mp3
 
Between Jazz and musics called " world ", excitings stories plots, thanks to musicians, desirous of crosswised designs. Guitar and mandolin player, Gerard Pansanel is one of these nomads temperaments. He goes all over musical imaginations of wide south, unwinding threads of a free and open story. Orchestra Frizzante units musicians from jazz and from traditional and improvised musics. From complicated mazes to obvious melodies, a patchwork of propositions to stimulate imaginary. (Le Monde)
 
Gérard Pansanel (g,mand) Claude Barthélémy (g, oud) Patrick Vaillant (mand) Fethi Tabet (oud, der, vx) Régis Huby (vl) Frédéric Monino (b) Joël Allouche (d) Demba Coulibaly (dj, vx)

Olivia à la Brune - mp3
 
Ten steps along the route with a band of pirates of mixed blood- connections with Sardinia, the Maghreb, Occitania,. Recordings made to suit each crew-member's spontaneity. A repertory for high winds and wide open spaces, sometimes worked over like the intricate tracery of a fishing net, sometimes honed down to the bare essentials, like the silhouette of a bird in flight. And the shadow of their latin origins hovers everywhere in all its coontradictions - generous, noisy, facetious, mystical, forever reaching out of freedom ... Frank Tenaille
 
Gérard Pansanel (g) Paolo Fresu (tp) Antonello Salis (p,acc) Furio di Castri (b) Joël Allouche (d)

Les nuits de Cabiria - mp3
 
I thought it was impossible anymore that music make us touch happiness with onešs finger ! So incredible that it could seem at this time of day, where swagger and ephemera are at order of the day, listening of Gouirand and Pansanel album accomplishes the miracle... Frank Cassenti (Film maker)
 
Gérard Pansanel (g) Doudou Gouirand (as) Antonello Salis (p,acc) Michel Marre (tp) Yves Robert (tb) Michel Godard (tu) JJ Avenel (b) Joël Allouche (d)

Chaleurs - mp3
 
... An aesthete's meeting, more worried by lyrism, formal requirement and emotion than techno-musical cook. Result is equal to these honorable worries : it's not a guitarist's album whose partners would only be exploited, but a musician's record, a collective work, a venture moment ; that's jazz would never stop to be. Xavier Prévost (Guitars and keyboards)
 
Gérard Pansanel (g) Enrico Rava (tp) Antonello Salis (p) Michel Bénita (b) Aldo Romano (d)

Blackbird - mp3
 
"We already had them to thank for their strong, effective Cinecitta, published in 1987 on the Bleu Citron label. Pansanel (the guitarist) and Salis (piano and accordion) have gone the whole log this time (with the occasional support of drummer Joel Allouche) in a tribute to Lennon, Harrison and McCartney, whose repertoire has been vastly underused by jazz, despite the memorsble album recorded by the Count himself, the Basie Beatles Beg It's pleasent, well put together and personalised, a record that takes off in the rather cooled-down atmosphere of the French recording industry today . Boom!" Serge Loupien (Libération)
 
Gérard Pansanel (g) Antonello Salis (p, acc)

Fortaleza - mp3
 
" Second album for Gerard Pansanel, this time in a duo with Antonello Salis. A suite of tracks with an evocative climate; compositions that throw light on a Mediterranean culture end music that derives from Sardinian folklore, Salis' personal heritage The accordion, the piano or their combinations blend strongly end well with the different guitars used by Pansanel. The result is a Iyrical album, rich in fine harmonies. This recording tells the listener that the players are quite simply having an unusually great time playing " . Pierre de Choqueuse (Jazz Hot)
 
Gérard Pansanel (g) Antonello Salis (p, acc)

Calypso - mp3
 
" This beautiful album has full filled all my expectations. He's a fresh new voice on the guitar scene, and I feel he has promising career ahead. Gerard has surrounded himself with high level players, and together they have produced great music." Joe Diorio (Musicianšs Institute / GIT Los Angeles)
 
Gérard Pansanel (g) Doudou Gouirand (as) Antonello Salis (p,acc) Michel Bénita (b) Aldo Romano (d)

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