RELEASE MAY 2014 – OTN 021 NOUVELLE VAGUE
!
– John Taylor – piano – Emile Parisien – soprano saxophone – Fabrice Moreau – drums – Stéphane Kerecki – double bass – Jeanne Added – vocals
Total time: 1 CD – 58’14
! Hear the images and see the music. Here in a few words is what touches me in the cinema of the New Wave. If, in the first place, jazz is very present in the films (Miles Davis, Martial Solal, Michel Legrand), there are also significant similarities between the cinema of these directors and my own conception of jazz: the exploration of personal worlds (Truffaut’s childhood in Les Quatre Cents Coups, Godard’s love for Anna Karina in Pierrot le fou and Une femme est une femme), the calling into question of classic aesthetic concepts, the affirmation of spatial deconstruction, but also the insertion of certain irrelevant scenes, guided by the sheer pleasure of movie-‐‑making (just as jazz musicians can be guided by the sheer pleasure of playing their instruments) – these are among the characteristics that were a powerful source of inspiration to me as I wrote the music for this disc.
! !
But how to bring Godard, Truffaut, Malle, and Demy together, when their styles are so different? How to bring together the music of Michel Legrand, Antoine Duhamel, Georges Delerue, and Miles Davis in a single programme? I got my answer from François Truffaut: ‘The only shared element that unites us is freedom.’ The constant frenzied car journeys of Ferdinand (Pierrot le fou), or the closing scene of Les Quatre Cents Coups when Antoine Doinel finally sees the sea, are both symbols of a permanent quest for freedom. These musics, superficially so different, also have in common the freedom that each composer was given and the freedom of the function they fulfil in the films.
OUTNOTE Records ·∙ Outhere S.A. ·∙ Rue du Chêne 27 ·∙ B-‐‑1000 Brussels (Belgium) tel.: +32 2 373 82 00 ·∙ fax: +32 2 373 82 09 Sales & Marketing: dominic@outhere-‐‑music.com ·∙ Communication: julien@outhere-‐‑music.com