Julien Grassen Barbe Trio - Loup Vert [2LP]

Cat. no: HIDD003LP
Format: LP2
Barcode: 3770018072265
Release Date: 17 Mar 2023
Genre: Jazz

Loup Vert is the frst jazz album of French pianist Julien Grassen Barbe, joined for the occasion by double bassist Sébastien Bacquias and drummer Fabien Duscombs

Conceived and composed in the Pyrenees mountains and recorded around Paris. Loup Vert is informed by many infuences, from Chopin to Morton Feldman, from Erik Satie to Herbie Hancock, through Keith Jarrett and Madlib. Julien Grassen Barbe's music opens a space dedicated to improvisation, melody, and the exploration of textures. Trained in classical music, graduate of the conservatory of the Hautes- Pyrénées region, Julien Grassen Barbe is a songwriter, a musician and also an ethnomusicologist, specialising in Jewish music, and a published author.

Between 2014 and 2016, he explored pop, invited by Chateau- Marmont and Exotica to collaborate on two records as a keyboardist. It was on this occasion that he got closer to Julien Galner, producer, founder of the HIDD record label who asked him to record a jazz record. They entered the studio to record Loup Vert, a project that is a cross between impressionism, cinema, be-bop, mathematics and improvised music. Most of the pieces were written by Julien Grassen Barbe, mixing acoustic and electric/electronic worlds.

LP2 Tracks: Cliché (feat. Tropics) / Petit Rêve / Spiritual for a Bird / Topologie / Rouge Baiser 405 / Les Cyprès de Noxubee / Le Vaisseau Ivre / Au Bord du Bleu / Gnossienne n°2 / Bashevis / Khôl / Ambre

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