Borrowed Hours Written & performed by Rémi Dalmasso Herrera accompanied by Ancris Cano Llanos, (e-basse)

Instruments played:
Mandolin JM Perrin (2020)
Mandola JM Perrin (2024)
Resonetor Mandolin National Vintage Custom (2002)
Mandocaster Fender 5 cordes (2000)
Guitar G. Chatelier, wengé (2018)
Fender Jazz Bass Marcus Miller (1977)

Rémi Dalmasso said: “Some pieces of music are written; this one just came to me. It was an evening when the wind had shifted without warning. A window I believed to be closed let in a draft from somewhere else—an old melody that wasn’t mine and that was floating through the room once again.
At a loss for words, I grabbed my mandolin, and my fingers took over from my thoughts.
Suddenly, the notes rushed out, like footsteps running away without knowing where they were going. In my mind, it was a happy memory: a race through the light, two smiling figures, then a dance that got carried away—warm, light, almost too beautiful to be true. As if to prove that everything was still all right.
Little by little, my fingers slowed of their own, and the dream took over.
Everything became slow and blurry, as if the room had filled with water and every movement was floating, weighed down, far from the surface. The sounds slipped away, becoming darker, echoing back like a lingering memory, in a room without walls where the light was fading. We were still dancing, but with our eyes closed, because I felt that if I opened them, there would be no one there facing me. That’s the heart of the piece—the moment I wished could last forever.
Finally, I woke up. The same rhythm as at the beginning, the same energy, the same notes, played in the same way. Yet it wasn’t the same anymore: I had opened my eyes. The path was still there, but the seat next to me was empty.
“Borrowed Hours”—hours borrowed from a dream, which had to be returned upon waking”.

Musicians’ biographies

Rémi Dalmasso Herrera is Born in 2005, Rémi grew up near Nice with bluegrass as the soundtrack of his childhood. The son of banjo player Marc Dalmasso, he studied piano at the conservatory and played drums before learning banjo and guitar from his father. He taught himself mandolin on a small Ibanez that hung on the wall at home. His playing was then shaped by the musicians who taught and inspired him: Bernard Minari, Daniel Portales, Christophe Constantin and Stefano Santangelo on mandolin, and François Vola on guitar. He plays with Sunrise, the band his father founded in the 1980s, and has also had the opportunity to perform in a quartet with François Vola, Laurent Paris and Marc Dalmasso.
“In the future, my ambition is to build a truly innovative bluegrass project, to show that the new generation is ready to carry the torch.”
Interview with Rémi Dalmasso on France Bluegrass Musique Association (June 2026, in French)

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Ancris Cano Llanos is a Chilean bassist and songwriter, Ancris came to France in 1980 and settled in Grasse in 1989. A specialist in intricate, interwoven bass lines, he blends jazz, rock, fusion, blues and Latin music on both fretted and fretless bass. In 1993 he founded the jazz-rock band Les Spins, active on the Alpes-Maritimes scene until 2004. He then explored funk and soul with James Davis and The Spins and Another Soul Generation, before launching the New Spins Projekt in 2011 and recording four albums with them. As a solo artist, he released Les Aventures d’un bassiste sur Pierre (2024) and Siguen las Aventuras (2025). Two new albums are planned for 2027: one with the New Spins Projekt, and the solo album Autocentrage.

Technical Team
Frédéric Garnero, sound engineer
Pierre Lacaille, sound assistant
Marc Dalmasso, stage manager