Parce Que !

" Parce Que ! " May 2014

(Photo : Quartet at So What club, La Gaude, Jazz festival sous les bigaradiers in November 2013. )

James Johnson Sweeney
(Director of the Guggenheim Museum New York, 1952-60 ) :
 " A painting by Soulages, it’s not a melody, it is chords on hold on the keyboard"

The idea of ​​this album collective improvisations around Pierre Soulages’s Outrenoir came by playing primarily with bass piano arpeggios and a series of notes held, causing dense harmonic and deep sound " immatière ".
I invited Eric-Maria Couturier, cello , Emmanuelle Somer English horn, oboe, bass clarinet, saxophone and Bruno Tocanne, drums, to visit and experience these paintings on the internet then join my piano sounds by bringing their own nuances and reflections for a recording session at Studio 26 in Antibes, November 18, 2013.
Interacting with this idea and music artist Anne Pesce created the album cover .
Mixing: Maïkôl Seminatore at The Border Studio. February 2014.
Mastering: Marwan Danoun at Studio Galaxy .
March 2014.
Label : Facing You / IMR 005
Distribution: Musea
iTunes

Titles :
Trace ouate
Coulures apparences
Signe banquise
Ratures brumes
Griffures au fond

"Why black ? The only response, including reasons unknown, lurking in darkest of ourselves and the powers of the painting is: "Because" ( "Parce que" in french ) " (Pierre Soulages, 1986) *