The jazz star Melody Gardot recruits musicians on the networks in order to "continue to create" and not to forget the orchestras reduced to silence by the pandemic of Covid-19.
"I have the money aside, but for many musicians around the world, times are uncertain," says the American artist, confined to Paris. If they don't have concerts or activities until September, October, November, December or 2021, how will they survive? "
And to add: “We had the idea of this digital world orchestra, to reach as many people as possible. Give them a job, with arrangements that have been adapted: it has to work with everyone registering on their side. It could help some, deprived of their profession or their passion now, to get better psychologically. "
Paid musicians
The players of string and wind instruments selected at the end of this online casting will be paid by the singer's record label, Decca, a subsidiary of Universal Music. The rights to the title thus accompanied, From Paris with Love , will be donated to the Aide ton Nurse association to support hospital staff.
To participate in Melody Gardot's musical project, each candidate, who registers via the artist's website, receives score and instructions for sending an instrumental performance video.
Applications will be reviewed by the interpreter, producer Larry Klein and sound engineer Al Schmitt.
"It's a challenge, we're a bit of a laboratory, we're breaking the codes of the orchestra, but music is a universal language," concludes Melody Gardot.
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