Florent Ghys: Ritournelles - Music for Double Bass & Electronics

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Label
Cantaloupe Music
Release Date
May 20, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Florent Ghys
    • PERFORMER
      Florent Ghys
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 20, 2022
    • UPC
      713746317522
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CA21175R
    • LABEL
      Cantaloupe Music
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Lisboa

      Composer: Florent Ghys

      Performer: Florent Ghys

    2. Printemps Permanent

      Composer: Florent Ghys

      Performer: Florent Ghys

    3. Gold

      Composer: Florent Ghys

      Performer: Florent Ghys

    4. Téléphone

      Composer: Florent Ghys

      Performer: François Cha, Hannah Collins, Rosie K, Molly Netter, Élodie Rousseau, Florent Ghys

    5. Northeast Corridor

      Composer: Florent Ghys

      Performer: Florent Ghys

    6. Véranda

      Composer: Florent Ghys

      Performer: Florent Ghys

    7. Maximum

      Composer: Florent Ghys

      Performer: Florent Ghys

    8. Coffee

      Composer: Florent Ghys

      Performer: Florent Ghys

    9. Quatre Fromages

      Composer: Florent Ghys

      Performer: François Cha, Hannah Collins, Rosie K, Molly Netter, Élodie Rousseau, Florent Ghys

    10. Petite Viennoiserie

      Composer: Florent Ghys

      Performer: François Cha, Hannah Collins, Rosie K, Molly Netter, Élodie Rousseau, Florent Ghys


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.”