Goude, Jean Philippe
Salon Noir
Jean-Philippe Goude's ninth album comes fifteen years after Aux Solitudes, also released on the Ici d'ailleurs label.Jean-Philippe Goude's music, which has long been purely instrumental, is familiar to many ears to have been the source of credits for numerous productions or to have constituted, especially on radio a sort of musical signature for many directors wishing to convey a discreetly dreamy or a restless mood in the dead of night. Whether as a breath of fresh air or a simple transition between two soundscapes, these somewhat wild borrowings from the programmes in the course of a program do not do justice to their author. Such is the fate of much instrumental music- known without being recognized, and classified in the latest record shops as unclassifiable.Also Le Salon noir marks a new stage in the work of Jean-Philippe Goude This album marks the culmination of an encounter with a voice, that of countertenor Paulin Bulin. The countertenor's tessitura has long interested the composer, who once worked with Grard Lesne and Le Salon noir follows a commission by Paulin Bn for his own ensemble seven years ago - a work premiered at the Muse de Cluny in 2017, the album Hieros (Greek for Sacred ") by Ensemble Cladon was released at the end of 2020 on the Fuga Libera label.