Grand Piano

Description

His best album? Yes! Mathieu Boogaerts, 30 years into his career, eight studio albums, over a thousand concerts worldwide, songs for Camélia Jordana, Zaz, Vanessa Paradis. His style, often described as "alternative French chanson," is characterized by its refined simplicity, inventiveness, and inimitable groove. *Grand Piano* is the title of his ninth album, and it's an oxymoron: "A figure of speech that brings together two terms whose meanings should be contradictory." GRAND because he wanted it that way: frank, dense, powerful, more substance, more volume than its predecessors... Older? A drum kit, an electric bass, a synthetic bass, an electric guitar, an acoustic guitar, a synthesizer, a saxophone, a flute, an accordion, a choir, percussion, an electric piano, and an upright piano: the palette of colors he needed to meticulously portray the feelings he expresses. But PIANO, because it's always in a confessional tone, light, fragile, soft, nuanced. Written and composed between September 2020 and March 2023 in many locations (London, Paris, Istanbul, Amsterdam, Budapest...), the album was recorded at La Frette Studio and then mixed by Renaud Letang (Alain Souchon, Feist, L'Impératrice) at Ferber.