FLAMENCO ON UPRIGHT BASS

It's my biggest honor to present you Renaud Garcia-Fons here on our channel. He's one of the best and innovative upright bassists of our generation and his music has influenced many. "Bajo De Guia" is a solo piece for five string double bass, composed and performed by Renaud Garcia-Fons. This composition is based on the flamenco style of Buleria.

Video extract from CD/DVD Marcevol Enja/Koalaprod
Video by Nicolas Dattilesi
Recorded live in Marcevol priory (France)
Publisher: Frederic Leibovitz (EDITEUR)

Double Bass by luthier Jean-Auray
Strings by Thomastik-Infeld

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Bajo De Guia is from the album Solo - The Marcevol Concert
My personal favorite album is from his trio (bass, flamenco guitar, percussion) and called Arcoluz. But at the end, they're all great ;) Check them out!

Thanks for watching! :)

[BertoBoyd]

As a Flamenco guitarist I have to give this guy an A+!!!! How are there unlikes here? Doesn’t he have enemies or something because that was brilliant!! Bravo!!!

[traveljibaro]

The 28 dislike are people that have never touched a “Contrabajo” and do not know how difficult and hard is to play this beautiful and to my ears the most complete instrument!

[duendedude]

Words are not enough. This is every kind of amazing. Even the words, virtuoso and maestro do not do this man justice. thank you so much for posting.

[cesarsaura]

I keep coming back to this. So, so amazing. What an awesome musician.

[slimebeach]

that was truly incredible. i can't imagine why anyone would dislike such talent

[alecrisser]

I don't think I've ever seen anyone play an upright bass this quickly. Even if you took the flamenco strumming aside, just his ordinary notes are so quick.

[vicentcarro]

this is the first time in my life, listening to Flamenco played on Bass, and I have listened to Flamenco for 20 yrs! Damn good stuff!

[Twinphreex]

One, if not the best in intonation, expression, dynamic and tone, ever

[jvidechi]

His bass sound so bright and his playing his clean and powerfull too. Thanks for the discovery.

[BassAdvisor]

Thanks to Renaud I switched my low c for a high c. In my opinion, the best and most interesting upright bassist of the moment.

[markbass]

Renaud that was the best performance I've ever seen or heard on a double bass,
Thank you very much, ,,
What an amazing instrument.

[JennaDearest]

It takes some absurdly amazing knowledge and talent to perform such a style on such an instrument. Bravo!

[larryborst]

Amazing!! What a pleasure to listen to. I play the Double Bass, no where near to his level. His intonation was spot on even on the 16th notes, and that on the higher register of the instrument. That is really hard to pull off on such a difficult piece. Bravo!

[alexsf]

Amazing virtuoso indeed. As far as speed I would also mention the 1974 upright solo from Stanley Clarke second album Spanish Phases for Strings and Bass, that solo change my life as a teenager in Rio de Janeiro Brazil.

[solobasssteve]

Utterly breathtaking. He's an extraordinary musician.

[johannesdalhuijsen]

Thank you Renaud. Utter mastery. Hauntingly full of soul. Please come back to England for more live performance

[KevinVarnell-hg]

He takes this to another level completely

[stefanpavlovic]

Možda najmuzikalniji čovek kog sam slušao. Divim mu se i klanjam do poda.

[benpm]

How did the crowd not leap from their chairs at the end to applaud? That performance is honestly insane. I would love to learn and master that style of plucking. Truly groundbreaking.

[mbrianriley]

Nothing short of incredible. Creative and technically brilliant.