Composer: Johan Farjot
Performer: Rosemary Standley, Mathilde Caldérini, Arnaud Thorette, Geneviève Laurenceau, Johan Farjot, Ambroisine Bré, Jeanne Gérard, Arnaud Thorette, Sandrine Piau, David Kadouch, Delphine Haidan
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Catalogue: ALPHA787
Label: Alpha
Release: 2022
Size: 1.03 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Sunset
02. Heart to Heart
03. Sunrise
Lovescapes
04. I. The Promised Land
05. II. Worldly Encounters
06. III. Vein Vain Vane
07. IV. Maiden
08. The Sky Just Moved
09. Kaguya
Shikoku Songs
10. I. An Unmade Call
11. II. Who Art Thou?
12. III. Seto
13. IV. The Greening Earth
14. V. Am I a Rock?
15. VI. One Short Moment
Johan Farjot’s music prolongs the inner resonances of David Tepfer’s beautiful poems, dealing with the frissons and sorrows of love. On the road to the eighty-eight temples of the Japanese island of Shikoku, the piano of Johan Farjot or David Kadouch, with the complicity of Geneviève Laurenceau on violin, Arnaud Thorette on viola and Mathilde Calderini on flute, opens out a kaleidoscope of emotions served by the magnificent voices of Sandrine Piau, Stanislas de Barbeyrac, Delphine Haidan, Ambroisine Bré, Jeanne Gérard, with a guest appearance by Rosemary Standley.
Johan Farjot explains: “This is a polyglot project that corresponds to my aesthetic standpoint, influenced by American music (the Minimalists and Aaron Copland, whose soundscapes are there in the background). But my music still bears the imprint of the French school and I am at ease with that tonal heritage, now that the war between “atonalism” and “tonalism” is behind us”.