Grace Bob Bonastre

• 1 Mandela 04:05
• 2 Palhaco 05:55
• 3 Summer Joy 04:13
• 4 Vaya con Dios 06:36
• 5 Lagoa da conceicao 03:30
• 6 Shalam 05:57
• 7 A fleur de cordes 05:04
• 8 Improvisation 04:15
• 9 Third Stone From The Sun 03:34
• 10 Music For Highways 04:01
• Total Runtime 47:10

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'Grace' is maybe one of the most beautiful word in english. Different nuances resonate depending the context: beauty, dignity, kindness, delicacy, elegance and divine grace. And that's by grace that french guitarist, Bob Bonastre, seems to have been touched...One can be sure that, even in his sleep, he would be able to improvise on any jazz standard, but he is looking for something else in his acoustic albums: a synthesis of Flamenco, Folk and African Music, which brings the listener to a state of deep serenity and trance without hower being exhausted or invaded by meditative superficial states. And Bob Bonastre definitly makes it...' (Michaël Lohr, Akustik Gitarre)

Born in Senegal (Africa) in a half spanish and french family, Bob Bonastre felt in love with guitar at fourteen. Presented as "one of the next best guitar players" by the french jazz press a few years ago, he decided, after many years of playing electric music with jazzmen, to follow another road, closer to his heart. If jazz, rock and contemporary music belong to his culture, his work on the nylon strings guitar has opened to him a new direction, in which the sound is as important as the note. He plays most of the time his own compositions in solo concerts, introducing a very large language, made of harmonies sometimes complex, unusual sounds by usinga chinese stick or a piece of paper, and more and more, an astonishing three octavias voice. His music speaks about travels, inner travels or around the world, taking the audience from continent to continent, with always the link of emotion and spirituality.

A music where the value of the notes is as important as the virtue of silence."

Rewarded at the Lausanne International Guitar Competition, Swiss(Electric contemporary guitar), and at the International Osnabrück Competition, Germany (Acoustic guitar), Bob has worked on several music for ballets, theater (Off in Avignon festival, Radio France, Maison de la culture de Bobigny), has composed "d'Afrique en Amérique Latine", a command for quartet (Ville de Saint-Cloud). Bob Bonastre plays in France: Jazz Festival "Avril swingue en mai" , now "Sons d'hiver, "Les Instants Chavirés, le Triton, le Réservoir, Festival de jazz de Saint-Denis, théâtre Dunois, Festival International de guitare d'Issoudun, festival des Alliances de la guitare, Guitarmaniaks in Colmar, Guitar' Land, Les Automnales de Ballainvilliers...and also abroad: French Cultural Centers in Africa (Gabon, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea), International Festival of Sacred Music, Fés, Morocco, Europe(Germany, Italy, Hungary, Czech Republic, Croatia, Nederlands), India, Brazil and USA.

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