Each of the pieces in Fleeting Castles is like an ephemeral castle that I can take refuge in when I feel like it says guitarist Sébastien Llinares.

Here, the French guitarist, who stands at the crossroads of Classical, Jazz and Contemporary Music and also produces the program Guitare, guitares on France Musique, puts his playing at the service of every kind of music.

Jimi Hendrix‘s Castles Made Of Sand was the inspiration for this program. Sébastien Llinares hears in it the unchanging open string that the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos so often used.

His journey continues with tributes to famous songs by Leonard Bernstein, George Gershwin and Rodgers & Hart, an evocation of Rufus Wainwright and Baden Powell in the forms of the Habanera and Bossa Nova. Not forgetting A Tribute to Django by John Lewis as well as Leonard Cohen‘s eternal Hallelujah, which takes on the air of an ancient canario when played on the Classical Guitar. Two bagatelles and an impromptu composed by Llinares himself complete the family portrait.

Sébastien Llinares, Guitar