LETTER(S) TO ERIK SATIE (VINYLE)

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"Erik Satie and John Cage are UFOs in the world of music, as they envisioned music through a completely different prism," explains pianist Bertrand Chamayou. "They are pioneers in the sense that, for many, they changed the very idea of what music should be." With his album Letter(s) to Erik Satie, Bertrand Chamayou pays tribute to two singular, innovative, and influential composers, one born in Normandy in 1866, the other in Los Angeles in 1912. There is a close link between them: Cage considered Satie a source of inspiration. Satie is featured on the album with pieces such as the three Gymnopédies and the seven Gnossiennes, while Cage is represented by five pieces and a work attributed to him after being rediscovered in the archives of his disciple James Tenney – whose musical tribute to Satie also features on the program. Chamayou recorded the album in Miraval's ultra-modern studios in Provence, which prompted him to adopt an experimental approach: "I told myself I had to do something a little different, and I thought of Erik Satie. It was an opportunity to get intimately acquainted with the piano... Satie is truly a special case, a strange musician like no other."