CELEBRATION (vinyl)

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VIRTUOSO AND INSPIRED CLARINETTIST. A SPIRITUAL AND CONTEMPLATIVE SUITE, INFUSED WITH JAZZ, CLASSICAL AND ORIENTAL MUSIC. From traditional reworked klezmer to electronic music, via rock, americana, classical and contemporary music, not to mention totally unclassifiable forms, this insatiable jack-of-all-trades in search of the absolute never loses sight of his vision of music, the approach to the human soul, a need for universality and spirituality that have led him for several years to draw inspiration from sacred music to evolve his language. A spiritual and contemplative suite, infused with jazz, classical and oriental music. When I began imagining this new album, everything around me had changed. Above all, thanks to Komos’s proposal, I found myself for the first time in the studio for several days, ready to truly “build and make” an album. Usually, my albums come more or less from the stage and are nourished by a personal rage that I expel while playing. This time, the album is guided by another energy: childlike, melancholic, evanescent, elegiac. A celebration of softness and beauty. WHERE IT IS SAID THAT THERE IS ALWAYS A BEFORE AND AN AFTER “Usually there is no precise rule. My albums are instinctive: everything starts from an outpouring and, in the end, I understand what they evoke and why I imagined them that way. At the beginning, I wanted to finally release an album that has long been hidden inside me: meditation is important in my life and I wanted to translate that state into music, hence the idea of an album titled Le Rythme du silence. The title speaks for itself. And then... And then we were expecting our first child, and then I was 40, and then the lockdown...” WHERE IT IS SAID THAT SILENCE WILL WAIT A LITTLE LONGER: “Another desire was born. When I began imagining this new album, everything around me had changed. Above all, thanks to Komos’s proposal, I found myself for the first time in the studio for several days, ready to truly ‘build and make’ an album. Usually, my albums come more or less from the stage and are nourished by a personal rage that I expel while playing. This time, the album is guided by another energy: childlike, melancholic, evanescent, elegiac. A celebration of softness and beauty.” WHERE IT IS SAID THAT A NOTE IS A BUILDING BLOCK: “When I record, there is always a struggle in me between the bandleader, the composer and the performer, which creates excitement but sometimes also stress. This time, I was able to take on each role in turn. I imagined the piece, I built it with Léo Jassef who sat at the piano or percussion to record it, and finally, and only then, I took my clarinet to play over the already existing music. The different layers were thus built up. And then came the mixing time with Félix, where it was still possible to invent, to compose. I spent nine days in the studio and used all that time, which is very rare to have, to really work on each piece. I can say that this is my first composer’s album. Like a celebration.” “Clarinetist Yom has so far never ceased to brilliantly explore an impressive range of musical aesthetics.”