FRANCOIS DE ROUBAIX (vinyl)

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Fred Pallem, leader of the most exhilarating formation of the new world, Le Sacre du Tympan, imposes the firepower of his own writing; and, eager for covers, injects new energy into the works of his masters: André Popp, Burt Bacharach, Francis Lai, Jean-Claude Vannier... and François de Roubaix. "It was in 2008," he recalls, "during the Jazz à la Villette festival: the request was to build a program around a film composer. We could have chosen Ennio Morricone... but François de Roubaix was a more original territory, still to be explored. Often, his image as an 'electronic pioneer,' a 'tinkerer of genius,' overshadows his breathtaking melodic and harmonic splendors. Even on the piano, reduced to two lines, it remains stunning, a true test. Starting from existing albums, I thus transcribed about twenty compositions by ear. The more I delved into the intimacy of his music, the more I fell in love with it, especially his way of juggling with tonality, his taste for parallel chords, his extraterrestrial modulations. De Roubaix's work is a formidable living language, influenced by all forms of popular music, jazz, folk, and pop."