Some instruments hold a collective memory. The accordion is one such instrument: the breath of the people, the voice of the streets and celebrations, the melancholy of dance, travel and nostalgia. But in the hands of Richard Galliano, this instrument ceases to belong to a single landscape and becomes the world: it traverses jazz, engages in dialogue with Bach, touches on tango, reinvents the French tradition and opens itself up to the vertigo of improvisation.
*Passion Galliano* is an encounter with one of the greatest contemporary accordionists, a true legend who has radically transformed the destiny of his instrument. His music springs from a rare balance: virtuosity and modesty, rigour and abandon, formal precision and emotional freedom. Every note seems to carry with it a dual sense of belonging: to the land from which it comes and to the horizon towards which it strives.