MINIROSE (vinyl)

Description

Ploughing their own furrow. Strengthening their connections. Chlorine Free releases its fourth album 'Minirose' today. It's a gamble: to create a narrative album without prestigious features or marketing promises, Chlorine Free's signature digs deeper into this collective and unifying music, adventurous and exhilarating, meticulously perfecting its effectiveness. This is the entire importance of the new opus by this group, which has, from the outset, forged a strong identity for itself. For 10 years, Chlorine Free has expertly built a fusion around jazz, funk, electro, and hip-hop, constantly tracing a line between a musical heritage directly from the 70s and their own desire to make jazz funk resolutely contemporary music. In focus are sound and instrumental mastery on the one hand, and groove, always as a foundation, creating music that is both vibrant and communicative. Incessantly, the band, composed since the beginning of the same lineup and founded around bassist/multi-instrumentalist Virgile Lorach and pianist Romain Clerc-Renaud, pursues this research at the crossroads of the golden age of jazz-funk (Hancock, CTI...), the virtuosity of electro made in Ninja Tunes or Mo'Wax (Squarepusher, Dj Shadow), and the necessity to collectively reinterpret this music. You enter the 12 tracks of the album as you enter a place, a setting, an atmosphere, where the groove draws you into colors and sensations that simply make you want to stay. 'Minirose' is an extreme distillation of the band's philosophy, which has matured and renewed its music, without ever straying from its artistic convictions. Unlike the three previous albums, the band this time decided to carry the entire album alone. While Chlorine Free has always distinguished itself with features from artists such as Raashan Ahmad, Nya, Soweto Kinch, or Mike Ladd... 'Minirose' is an entirely instrumental album, paying homage to the expertise of each member of the collective. More accomplished in terms of sound recording, work on synthesizers, on the bass-drum connection, and on the balance between the infinite possibilities of post-production and the freshness of live performance. Minirose, after 10 years of the band's work, proclaims once and for all that music will always be enough in itself.