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Monades is the first record of the French jazz flautist and oud player Julien Bigorgne _________________________ Listen to the whole album : https://monades.fanlink.to/julienbigo... CD is available here : https://julienbigorgne.bandcamp.com/a... _________________________ Passionate about traditional Turkish, Indian and African music, Julien Bigorgne has composed 14 instrumental pieces, a bit like the Orientalists, borrowing from these traditional musics their colors and rhythms while reinterpreting them. A long work of maturation gives to the compositions a contemporary character that stands out from the clichés too often conveyed by "World Music". Alternatively on the transverse flute and the oud (the Arab lute), Julien Bigorgne is accompanied by Shankar Kirpalani on double bass and Camille Petit on piano with whom he has shared many collaborations over the last fifteen years. Throughout this musical discourse of more than an hour, in which improvisations are almost absent, the titles of the album are marked by the obsession to propose melodies that are simple to hear, holding the attention long after listening ; we will see in this approach a heritage of popular traditional music. Carried by an omnipresent minimalism, the melodies are pure, self-sufficient, indivisible, embracing the philosophical concept of Monades. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Main musical influences of the melodies on the Monades record: Avishai Cohen, Anouar Brahem, Bojan Z., Daniel Mille, Jurassic 5, Nirvana, Erik Satie, Philip Glass, Hamza el Din, Chilly Gonzales, Aaron Goldberg, Moondog. Thanks to Simha Arom for his work as an ethnomusicologist, which was put to great use in the compositions on the Monades record. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ This project is edited by the label LEM (Music Exploration Laboratory), a label dedicated to rhythmic perception in music. This is the 7th record of this label (LEM07). Video directed by Alice Petit. Images Darius Vernhes. Musicians on the record : Julien Bigorgne : Oud, Flute, Kalimba Camille Petit : Piano, Vibraphone Shankar Kirpalani, Béla Bluche : Double Bass Juliette Weiss : Violin Nadia Mejri-Chapelle : Cello Sophie Raynaud : Bassoon Recorded and mixed at Claudia Sound Studio (Paris) by Maxime Lefèvre © LEM 2020