Seb Martel - Saturn 63 [CD]

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: iF1075CD
Barcode: 3516628397417
Release Date: 16 Sep 2022
Genre: Electronic/Alternative

The second volume of a collection, initiated by Arandel "In Bach", in collaboration with the Musée de la Musique in Paris (branch of the Philharmonie). The collaboration highlights the museum's rare, old and sometimes experimental instruments in albums composed by expert musicians of contemporary music with modern production techniques.

-Saturn 63 is a musical fresco on the electric guitar that passes through blues-rock, folk, world music, post-punk or post-rock. The use of many details (sound and guitar effects) in the production gives the album a modern experimental touch.

-Seb Martel is a studio musician, an expert in guitar, who has played on albums by great artists as well as with leading artists in jazz, world music, trip-hop and hip-hop.

-The album features vocal collaborations with Camille (Nouvelle Vague), Sabrina Bellaouel, Cindy Pooch (InFiné), Chocolate Genius, Vic Moan, or his brother Nicolas.

-In the French-speaking markets, the names of Mathieu Chedid aka M, Mathieu Bogaaert or Vincent Segal (Bumcello) playing electric guitar should speak for themselves.

This new opus made from a selection of 9 guitars from the Musée de la Musique (a branch of the Philharmonie de Paris), and only enriched with the voices of his close collaborators (Camille, Sabrina Bellaouel...), unfolds on fourteen tracks a musical fresco faithful to the historical and geographical heritage of his instrument. The album includes fascinating reworks of Carl Perkins, Benjamin Britten, Chavela Vargas or Vincent Segal in addition to his own compositions. However, adopting a dogmatic approach, and dressing his compositions with sounds and effects collected during the recordings, Martel offers an abstract and experimental edge to Saturm 63, which transports the listener into an out of time experience. Two famous names of the French Chanson, -M- and Mathieu Boogaerts joined Martel to close the album with the snapshot of a speechless improvised session.

* Tracklist LP:

A SIDE
A1_ Tortuga - 03:22
A2_ Blue Suede Shoes - 04:05
A3_ My Best Friend - 03:31
A4_ Arpog - 03:37
A5_ Seventy - 05:04
A6_ Albert Premier - 03:54

B SIDE
B1_Balulalow - 02:33
B2_That Yongë Child - 01:38
B3_Macorina - 07:06
B4_Soul Kiss - 03:18
B5_Friction - 01:59
B6_Future Talk - 03:5
B7_The Wind Is Weak - 04:53