Memento

Description

The melancholic universe of Patrick Modiano set to song by Dominique A!Jean-François Mondot, a journalist and jazz critic, has long been a reader of Patrick Modiano, whose hazy and nostalgic poetry he admires. In 2020, he embarked on a bold venture: translating Modiano's fog into songs. He immersed himself in his novels, rereading everything. From this immersion, thirteen songs emerged, very freely inspired by the writer's universe, linked together by a chronological thread.We follow, step by step, from his childhood to his mature years, a man who could be at times a dreamed-up Modiano, at times one of his characters. Jean-François Mondot sent his lyrics to Dominique A, whose supple and embodied voice had long moved him. He was very fortunate: the singer is also a reader of Modiano. He decided not only to perform the lyrics of this unknown writer but also to compose the music under his real name, Dominique Ané. To carry out this project, he surrounded himself with two major figures of French and European jazz, pianist Stephan Oliva and double bassist Sébastien Boisseau, two musicians who understand the weight of words as much as that of notes. The eclectic drummer Sacha Toorop, with his incomparable finesse of touch, completes the team. The result is a unique musical project, eminently poetic and profound!