A CERTAIN TRIP (vinyl)

Description

A new album in sight for Guillaume Perret. With A CERTAIN TRIP, due for release on June 5, 2020, the saxophonist will extend the paths he opened with the soundtrack of 16 levers de soleil, Thomas Pesquet’s space odyssey. Always reaching upward toward infinity, Guillaume Perret has composed for theater, ballet, and cinema, and has developed his sense of dramaturgy and storytelling with each of his many projects. To create the soundtrack for 16 levers de soleil, the saxophonist brought together a new crew made up of Yessaï Karapetian on keyboards, Julien Herné on bass, and Martin Wangermée on drums. The quartet gradually sculpted the eight tracks of the album A Certain Trip on stage, guided by the sound architect once again developing music unlike any other, intense or dreamy, always in the service of emotion. A spiritual jazz trance from elsewhere where electronic music, groove, urban pulses, and oriental textures meet. His solar, stripped-down music, with airy atmospheres conducive to elevation, gives nothing up in terms of energy. Unafraid to transform, twist, and wrench the sound of his saxophone using pedals and all kinds of homemade contraptions, he offers us contemporary jazz with electro influences, floating, unusual, and terribly current. “THE JAZZMAN WHO RUBS SHOULDERS WITH THE STARS.” --- TÉLÉRAMA ---. “The sax appeal is on the starting blocks to deliver a serious beating to those who don’t know him yet.” --- JAZZ NEWS ---. “This album is a cinematic trip, an invitation to color reality. I wanted to design an enveloping music, one that connects our inner world with the outer world. Whatever the images and sounds around us, I made sure they always blend well with the sonic adventure offered in these long-form compositions, so that we feel like we’re in a music video, between reality and fiction. I visit several states of mind, roam different universes, launch proposals that are constantly challenged again, takeoff zones, breaks, blurred tracks. Hatches open onto unknown worlds, we gain strength, we make our life into a film in which we are the hero.” “Furious, fierce and tender, the youngest in jazz kneads funk and metal. A huge slap.” --- TÉLÉRAMA ---. “Staggering between rage, voluptuousness and bestiality, the sound of this saxophonist gives rise to a universe conceived like a film.” --- L'EXPRESS ---. “the musician of today, and of tomorrow.” --- LE MONDE ---.