‘I am so in love with this man’ (Gilles Peterson)
French pianist and composer Chassol visits Rich Mix to reveal the first UK performance of his dazzling fourth album ‘Big Sun’ – the crowning LP to his trilogy of ultrascores.
This multi-talented artist has developed his audio-visual ultrascores as a method for harmonizing and symphonizing real life - the ‘here and now’ - starting out in Creole-speaking New Orleans (‘Nola Chérie’, 2011) before pursuing its route through India (‘Indiamore’, 2013).
In March 2014, Chassol set out for Martinique - his family’s birthplace in the West Indies - which, for him, epitomised everything he dreamt of expressing, from the purely personal to the perfectly panoptic. Accompanied by production sound mixer Marie-France Barrier and sound engineer Johann Levasseur, the trio filmed and recorded a myriad of extraordinary encounters and created a highly evocative documentary that was to become the matrix of ‘Big Sun’.
Back in France, he composed, edited, rehearsed and created the 27 tracks of a 70-minute West Indian odyssey: a weaveworld of vast field recordings ranging from birdsong to Pipo Gertrude’s whistling, Joby Bernabés’ poetry (and a tête-à-tête with a female mountain-dweller), Sissido and Samak’s rap, Mario Masse’s flute and the Fort de France Carnival. The organic sounds of conch shell echoes and the music of the ocean to the hullabaloo of a game of dominos further serve to create an entire world blended by the artistry of Chassol.
Now, Chassol invites us on a strange yet superbly organized journey of discovery, illustrating a Martinique that shatters clichés, codes and musical genres, showcasing an interpretation of reality that forms a true musical masterpiece.
Chassol – Big Sun Live UK Premiere
Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London
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