Japan Tour 2011

After releasing his new solo album, Between the Lines, on japanese label Flaü, Jean-Philippe Collard-Neven will make a Japan tour from may 29th to june 11th.




Listen here to some extracts

total information:

flau

www.flau.jp

Between the Lines

For nearly 15 years, I’ve been collecting music in my drawers. Bits of melodies, half-finished pieces, a few chords thrown hastily onto a sheet of paper. It was necessary for someone at the other end of the world (for Belgium, Japan is at the other end of the world) to ask me to release a CD there, for me to put together all these musical bits and pieces and give them, at last, a shape and a face. If this music has been in my drawers for so long, it may be because here in Belgium, I didn’t know where it belonged. Not jazz, nor what one may call contemporary music, nor pop, nor chanson… Maybe a bit of everything, maybe something else. It seems to me that by releasing a CD so far from home, these questions would be allowed to fade and that it would be enough to say that it is all simply music, my music. More precisely, this is the music which comes to me most effortlessly. At the risk of giving in to certain clichés, I must say that this is the music which comes to me as I am walking down the street, or absent-mindedly driving in my car. Music which surfaces naturally, without being summoned. And it is so irresistible, because it brings me back to my adolescence, and even my childhood, during which I have had the good fortune of being swept away by music, which was a living part of me, haunting me, relentlessly calling upon me. At the time I was not aware that to live thus, in a world filled with sounds, was extraordinary. I believed it to be the norm. Later, adulthood attempts to persuade us that reality is altogether something far more serious. Today, it is this music which has become a stronghold against the commonplace banal reality of the world. This is why this album may very well be the most personal I have ever made. Because it reaches what is most natural within myself. It springs from my oldest emotions, the most mysterious, the most unconscious ones. Although recorded with a certain urgency, a great calmness seems to emanate from this music. Much like the pervasive longing for a lost world to which music allows, from time to time, an entrance, a door to an elsewhere which remains forever elusive. This music attempts to grasp behind the world’s façade something else, which our grown-up eyes can no longer see. It attempts to read between the lines what is not said but which we can perceive if only we know how to listen.

Between the lines…


Jean-Philippe Collard-Neven

Premier album chez FUGA LIBERA du quartet, disponible en magasin début septembre

Jean-Louis Rassinfosse, contrebasse
Jean-Philippe Collard-Neven, piano/Rhodes
Fabrice Alleman, clarinette/saxophone
Xavier Desandre-Navarre, percussions





La basse tellurique et toujours chantante de Jean-Louis Rassinfosse, Fabrice Alleman et ce chant de l'âme qui vous touche droit au coeur, le jeu félin et le toucher délicat de Jean-Philippe Collard-Neven, l'énergie solaire et charismatique de Xavier Desandre-Navarre nous font voyager au gré de compositions originales dans un monde fait de luminosité claire-obscure, de tendresse mélodique, de mélancolie joyeuse et d'explosions jubilatoires. Entre (dé)formation classique, jazz de chambre, rythmes tribaux et harmonies oscillant entre Scriabin et Pat Metheny, les chaconnes se mettent curieusement à ressembler à des ballades jazz.