"Our last album, La Course (2020) was released during the lockdown. Inspired by the feedback from listeners, who received the music with special attention, the idea and need for (Loin des) Rivages was born. We got out of confinement to join the musicians in the studio."
Bon Voyage Organisation is above all the story of the construction of an ensemble, the quest for harmony, through music, between beings. A central leitmotiv in Adrien Durand's composition and production work for almost ten years.
Emancipated from all constraints and affirming the radical choice - previously initiated with La Course - of an entirely instrumental sound, (Loin des) Rivages was recorded over five days in June 2020 at Jean-Benoit Dunkel's Studio Atlas (Air) and mixed the following summer by Adrien Durand in his Parisian studio, Bureau 12. It was an orchestrated performance considering that all ten tracks were played live, gathering up to thirteen musicians in the same room.
This close collaboration allowed Adrien Durand and the members of the ensemble to transcend themselves. Together, they deliver the incredible energy of Sentier des Orpailleurs (and Adrian Edeline's superb solo), the depth of melancholy of Apacheta (co-written and co-arranged by Adrien Durand and Gustave Rudman), and the originality of Et s'éveillent...
Inspired by the great explorers of the soul: Sun Ra, Moondog, Coltrane - a cover of his Naïma actually opens the album - Adrien Durand mixes humanity’s first instruments (the percussions and the winds) with its latest ones (the mixing tables and the synthesizers). Thus, he continues the most interesting yet rewarding artistic journey: The journey inward, far from the standards of civilization, in the heart of what some can take for madness, reaching into a jungle of the soul so marvelously represented in Clément Vuillet’s artwork.
This is not an intellectual record but rather a spiritual effort, because, as Adrien Durand likes to repeat in his concerts: "Let us step into music as we step into a sanctuary."
1. Naïma
2. Yuseef (Trouver le soleil dans chaque jour de pluie)
3. Pyramis
4. Et s‘Eveillent
5. Première vue d‘Apacheta
6. Les Joncques
7. Les Pêcheurs
8. Apacheta
9. Le Sentier des Orpailleurs
10. Passage
Rhythm Section :
Adrien Durand : Piano, Bass Synthesizer, Organ, Synthesizers, Vibraphone.
Maxime Kosinetz : Additional Synthesizers on Yuseef.
Adrian Edeline : Acoustic and Electric Guitar.
Pedro Barrios : Congas, Percussions, Cavaquinho, Vibraphone.
Wendy Killman : Drums, Timbales, Glockenspiel.
Arnaud Biscaye : Drums, Marimba, Kayambe, Triangle.
Additional Musicians :
Emma Broughton : Alto & Bass Flute.
Julien Cavard : Soprano Saxophone, Flute.
Arnaud Sèche : Alto & Soprano Flute.
Adrien Soleiman : Tenor & Baryton Saxophone.
Tanguy Jouanjan : Trumpet, Flugelhorn.
Malvina Meinier : Baldwin Harpsichord (Apacheta).
Gustave Rudman : Solina String Synthesizer (Apacheta).
All tracks Composed & Arranged by Adrien Durand except :
Naïma composed by Saint John Coltrane arranged by Adrien Durand & Julien Cavard; Yuseef composed by Adrien Durand & Maxime Kosinetz, Woodwind arrangements by Adrien Durand & Julien Cavard; Et S'éveillent arranged by Adrien Durand & Pedro Barrios; Apacheta composed & arranged by Adrien Durand & Gustave Rudman; Le Sentier des Orpailleurs Woodwind arrangements by Adrien Durand & Julien Cavard
Recorded @StudioAtlas June 2020
Engineer : Maxime Kosinetz
Assistant engineer : Michael Tainturier
Mixed by Adrien Durand @Bureau12
Produced by Adrien Durand for L’Invitation Musicale
Mastered by Antoine "Chab" Chabert
