A departure ? Yes, music travels to endless destinations according to who will listen to it.
We play the music, we build it from each of our inner travel, different, multidirectional in space and time.
How to know where we go? Why try to find out?
We travel without a map, without a destination, the arrival is not the end, it is not the goal.
What we played is the subject of our trip in the « Transiant Geography » we visited freely.
What cardinal points are they ?
Perhaps they are those anchored in our memories and our dreams, past and future.
Where the word is not enough, where sound says who we are.
In the center is our listening, played without borders, alive.
Henri Roger. June 2015

Jean-Marc Foussat: electronics
Henri Roger : acoustic piano

Recorded at Studio 26, at Antibes, april 2015 by Fred Bétin.
Mix by Maïkôl Seminatore at The Border Studio june 18 and 19 2015.
Mastering by Marwan Danoun at Studio Galaxy july 2015.

Facing You / IMR 008. September 2015. Distribution Musea, Instant Music Records, les Allumés du jazz, Improjazz, Souffle Continu.

Foussat and his electro-acoustic devices meet here with pianist Henri Roger for three improvisations, recorded on April 2015. The atmosphere here is much more intimate, almost a chamber like, still a haunted camber setting, inspired by the poetry of Belgian Paul Nougé, the founder and theoretician of surrealism in Belgium.

The main piece is the 54-minutes “Le Milieu”, a patient, nuanced and unsettling cinematic soundscape. This minimalist piece succeeds to create an intriguing, dream-like atmosphere where vivid sonic scenes change and morph instantly, slowly building an intense, dramatic tension and then disintegrating into a delicate and gentle stream of sounds. This piece sounds as acting on its own fleeting logic, with no need to subject its course to any destination, any cohesive form or narrative. This surrealist, poetic trip is concluded with the short, meditative, drone-like “L’Est & l’Ouest” that solidifies the eerie, dreamy and chamber-like atmosphere of this arresting meeting.
Eyal Hareuveni. Freejazzblog.