CHASSOL - Big Sun

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: TRILPFR046 
Barcode: 3770004998012
Release Date: 02 Oct 2026
Genre: Jazz/Pop

2026 REPRESS EDITION

Christophe Chassol's brilliantly-dazzling third album, crowns his trilogy of ultrascores (a method he elaborated for harmonizing, symphonizing real life, the 'here and now'), which started out in Creole-speaking New Orleans (Nola Cherie, 2011) before pursuing its route through India (Indiamore, 2013).

In March 2014, Christophe Chassol took off for Martinique, his family's birthplace; these West Indies that epitomize everything he dreamt of expressing, from the purely personal to the perfectly panoptic. Hand-in-hand with the production sound mixer Marie-France Barrier and the sound engineer Johann Levasseur, the trio filmed and recorded a myriad of extraordinary encounters, scenes of everyday life, the carnival... 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 space odyssey. Big Sun is a weaveworld of birds' songs and Pipo Gertrude's whistling, Joby Bernabe's poetry and a tete-a-tete with a lady mountain-dweller, Sissido and Samak's rap, Mario Masse's flute, the Fort de France carnival, conch shell echoes, the ocean's music and the hullabaloo of a game of dominos. And sumptuous pieces of music like La Route de la Trace or Reich & Darwin, which suddenly spring up at a bend in the road and take our breath away.

Tracklist: A1 - The Big Sun (Introïde) A2 - Birds (pt.2) A3 - Pipornithology (pt.2) A4 - Mario (pt.1 & 2) A5 - Organe Phonatoire A6 - Dominos (pt.3) A7 - Samak B1 - La route de la trace B2 - Bwa Brillé (Alix et Lisa) B3 - Carnaval (pt.3 - Percussions harmoniques) B4 - Carnaval (pt.4 - Keupons) B5 - The Big Sun (Outroïde) B6 - Reich & Darwin B7 - Générique Big Sun