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Florent Ghys: Ritournelles - Music for Double Bass & Electronics
Cantaloupe Music

Florent Ghys: Ritournelles - Music for Double Bass & Electronics

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Details

Composer
Florent Ghys
Artist
Florent Ghys
Format
CD
Label
Cantaloupe Music
Released
May 20, 2022
Catalog #
CA21175R
UPC
713746317522

About

In his third solo recording for Cantaloupe Music, Florent Ghys radically retools his approach with Ritournelles & Mosaïques — a wide-ranging two-part opus that pulls back the curtain on an intrepid composer, double bassist and electronics bricoleur in full sonic exploration mode. Ghys began work on the project in late 2019, but like the rest of the world, he soon found himself in the midst of a prolonged isolation period, which inspired him to expand his creative palette. On his previous album Télévision, Ghys had begun with an audio-visual idea; this time, he started at the root: with the sound. “I just wanted to make something that sounded great,” he says, “so I spent a lot of time studying the sound of my bass — analyzing it, making sample libraries, recording it — and then studying the different microphones, different rooms, different basses too. So it really started from the sound, and then adapting my audio-visual ideas to that.” Ritournelles is essentially the electro-acoustic, ambient instrumental portion of the program, while Mosaïques is more sample-based and electronic, seething with textural complexity. “Despite the differences though,” Ghys explains, “they really come from the same initial artistic impulse.”

Tracklist 10 tracks

  1. 1 Lisboa 02:51
    Track
    1
    Title
    Lisboa
    Duration
    02:51
    Composer
    Florent Ghys
    Performer
    Florent Ghys
  2. 2 Printemps Permanent 03:51
    Track
    2
    Title
    Printemps Permanent
    Duration
    03:51
    Composer
    Florent Ghys
    Performer
    Florent Ghys
  3. 3 Gold 03:58
    Track
    3
    Title
    Gold
    Duration
    03:58
    Composer
    Florent Ghys
    Performer
    Florent Ghys
  4. 4 Téléphone 04:06
    Track
    4
    Title
    Téléphone
    Duration
    04:06
    Composer
    Florent Ghys
    Performer
    François Cha, Hannah Collins, Rosie K, Molly Netter, Élodie Rousseau, Florent Ghys
  5. 5 Northeast Corridor 04:59
    Track
    5
    Title
    Northeast Corridor
    Duration
    04:59
    Composer
    Florent Ghys
    Performer
    Florent Ghys
  6. 6 Véranda 03:21
    Track
    6
    Title
    Véranda
    Duration
    03:21
    Composer
    Florent Ghys
    Performer
    Florent Ghys
  7. 7 Maximum 04:35
    Track
    7
    Title
    Maximum
    Duration
    04:35
    Composer
    Florent Ghys
    Performer
    Florent Ghys
  8. 8 Coffee 02:58
    Track
    8
    Title
    Coffee
    Duration
    02:58
    Composer
    Florent Ghys
    Performer
    Florent Ghys
  9. 9 Quatre Fromages 07:42
    Track
    9
    Title
    Quatre Fromages
    Duration
    07:42
    Composer
    Florent Ghys
    Performer
    François Cha, Hannah Collins, Rosie K, Molly Netter, Élodie Rousseau, Florent Ghys
  10. 10 Petite Viennoiserie 03:11
    Track
    10
    Title
    Petite Viennoiserie
    Duration
    03:11
    Composer
    Florent Ghys
    Performer
    François Cha, Hannah Collins, Rosie K, Molly Netter, Élodie Rousseau, Florent Ghys