Beat Kaestli - cd Celebration for "collage" at Blues Alley

With his new project "Collage" Beat Kaestli continues his exploration of European Song, focusing on French music and it's international reaches and influences. His very personal Francophonie includes folk songs from France and Switzerland, French, Franco-American and international Standards and originals. It portrays his extensive musical journey, explores the
French-American connection in Jazz and, with his unique arrangements he dares to venture beyond the usual chanson bringing even countries like Mexico and Brazil seamlessly into his musical landscape of French culture.<BR>
Collage Reviews:...

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With his new project "Collage" Beat Kaestli continues his exploration of European Song, focusing on French music and it's international reaches and influences. His very personal Francophonie includes folk songs from France and Switzerland, French, Franco-American and international Standards and originals. It portrays his extensive musical journey, explores the
French-American connection in Jazz and, with his unique arrangements he dares to venture beyond the usual chanson bringing even countries like Mexico and Brazil seamlessly into his musical landscape of French culture.<BR>
Collage Reviews:
Kaestli introduces things with an angular original, intelligently designed and tuneful. He finds a tense balance between innocent sweetness and the erotic that makes this reimagining achingly compelling.
- AllAboutJazz


This multi-cultural program of constantly welcome surprise focusing on French music while weaving a varied, glowing and provocative artisticCollage, woven together by the stronges and most coherent strands of the human heart.
- Todd Barkan, Jazz @ Lincoln Center


Beat's vocals will carry you away to the fantasies of your wildest dreams, and help you relive them once again! I give Beat & his crew a HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, with an "EQ" (energy quotient) rating of 4.97.
- Rotcod Zzaj


If Astrud Gilberto has a male counterpart, it's Beat Kaestli, a sublimely mellifluous singer whose work is smooth as satin, slow, easy, and savory.
- Acoustic Music


A tasty mix throughout, wannabes should note there was a lot of dues paying to get Kaestli to this point and it's what you have to do if you want to make it and make it right. A winner throughout.
- Midwest Record


Kaestli is an intriguing talent with a unique vision. - JazzHistoryOnLine


To hear his way with a song is transporting, wholly satisfying, and completely seductive. They just don't come any better than Beat Kaestli and this recording underlines that fact.
- Grady Harp, March 14 amazon.com


This music is as fresh as a whiff of a freshly opened boulangerie.
- Jazzweekly

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