Fri Jan 23, 2015 @ 8:00 pm

Stephane Wrembel

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Best known for his score and performance of the original theme song, “Bistro Fada”,  for Woody Allen’s 2011 smash hit Midnight In Paris , renown gypsy jazz guitarist Stephane Wrembel has discovered a new way to express music; taking his listeners on a spiritual journey into a world of his own.

One of NYC’s best-kept musical secrets, Stephane is a master of what is considered Gypsy jazz and infuses his music with influences ranging from Django Reinhart to Greek and North African music to Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd.  All of which melt together into an acoustic style full of precise picking and memorable melodies.

Stephane has graciously donated his time and talent to Project Joy, a collaboration of Rotary Clubs from around the world, to supply diagnostic equipment and physician training to treat pediatric epilepsy in developing countries.

Background

He’s been called “a revelation” by Rolling Stone. Woody Allen recruited him to score the theme to the 2012 Academy Award winning film Midnight in Paris, and he performed live during this year’s Oscar’s telecast. To say that French-born guitarist/composer Stephane Wrembel—who learned his craft among the Gypsies at campsites in the French countryside—has already had a remarkable career would be an understatement. But this virtuoso, who is now Brooklyn-based, has truly just begun to make his mark as one of the most original guitar voices in contemporary music.

Origins, Wrembel’s fifth and most highly anticipated release yet, finds the multi-faceted musician corralling a myriad of influences into a hybrid that simultaneously reflects where he’s been and points to where he’s headed. Although he built his reputation as a stylist in the mode of the iconic French Sinti guitarist Django Reinhardt, Wrembel now revels in transcending and expanding. “I’m digging deeper and deeper into my roots,” he says about the album. Origins touches upon everything from blues to flamenco to rock; all of these influences come together as something identifiable only as Stephane Wrembel. It is the most sophisticated representation to date of Wrembel’s superior compositional skills; his melodies burst with a panoply of textures and colors, moods and emotions.

“It’s a different state of mind all together,” adds Wrembel, talking about Origins. “I always compose with a picture in mind. That Impressionism approach is the main thing that I’ve carried with me from Fontainebleau.”

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