"Ainsi de Nous"
Suddenly, everything is lighter, more alive, more pure, as if on a still Spring morning under a bright new sun. The eyc sees clearer, the heart opens out in tenderness for the world.There is a clarinet, delicately acrobatic. The violin, emotional, suave. The bassoon, cello and double bass are good companions, caressing, enveloping. The piano, graceful as a manuscript illumination. A distant harmonium. The merest suggestion of an accordion. All in all, an intimate orchestra, pared down to essentials, in a score sculpted with miraculous precision.Two years ago, with the CD "DE ANIMA", Jean-Philippe GOUDE opened a new chapter in the already well filled lifc of a musician-classical music studies, rock and jazz groups, music for films, television backround music and credits, creations for the dance, collaboration with Carolyn CARLSON or Michel PORTAL.
Goude's reputation as he entered his forties was above all that of an expert in synthesizers, a high-tech virtuoso. And then, surprise: his most personal music took on airs of acoustic purity and baroque or classical reminiscences.We rediscover the same world of sound on "AINSI DE NOUS". Simply, the mood has changed. After asceticism and gravity, a gentle liveliness creeps in. Melodies flit past at the speed of scudding clouds, somewhere between a smile and melancholy.
Rhythms dance weightlessly. Scarcely troubled by exquisite peaks of anxiety, a secret happiness shines through.Where should we seek to place this aesthetic approach? In an introduction to his previous recording,
I wrote certain phrases which today I would stress more than ever:"As this century draws to its close, music is reinventing itself, far from obsolete forms of futurism, through a quest for simplicity and profundity ... Harmonies and timbres are evolving outside any period, in a time that is both immemorial and immediate. We should see in it the only true meaning of the word "contemporary".
Jean-Pierre LENTIN
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