Chance

Description

Henri Texier, bassist and multi-instrumentalist, has been carving his path, album after album, since 1967. If one pays less attention, one might think that this impressive collection of recordings tells a career story, while it primarily outlines a powerful and admirable body of work. The work of a musician who has always been at the forefront of music that is being created, the work of a concerned and sensitive artist, attuned to the world. As the years go by, the significance and originality of Henri Texier become increasingly evident to all musicians, whether they are fellow travelers or not. A wonderful blend of a great tradition of the double bass and a modernism that has never shied away. Time seems to have no hold on his playing: round, powerful, and above all animated by an extraordinary sense of rhythm. A high-caliber cast and a sequence of scenes and landscapes that give the listener the certainty of an overarching narrative. Once again, Admiral Texier is at the helm, like a great and gentle helmsman, with unwavering enthusiasm, a man who sees a little further than others, and can therefore guide them.