Ritournelles, by Florent Ghys

Ritournelles

by Florent Ghys

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Vinyl compilation of selections from Ritournelles & Mosaïques, Florent Ghys' May 2022 double album. ESTIMATED SHIPPING DATE: Q4 OF 2022

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1.	Lisboa 02:51 video	info
2.	Printemps Permanent 03:50 video	info	buy track
3.	Gold 03:58	info
4.	Téléphone 04:06	info
5.	Northeast Corridor 04:58
6.	Véranda 03:20
7.	Maximum 04:34
8.	Coffee 02:57	info
9.	Quatre Fromages 07:42	info
10.	Petite Viennoiserie 03:11

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On his third solo recording for Cantaloupe Music, Florent Ghys radically retools his creative 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 (available on CD) is essentially the electro-acoustic, ambient instrumental portion of the program, while Mosaïques (available digitally) 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.”

Cantaloupe will release a limited edition vinyl compilation of selected tracks from Ritournelles & Mosaïques in late 2022.

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released May 20, 2022

Composition, instruments, programming, recording, mixing, and videos by Florent Ghys
Voices by: François Cha, Hannah Collins, Florent Ghys, Rosie K, Molly Netter, and Élodie Rousseau
Video for Lisboa by Maiko Kikuchi
Visual effects on Printemps Permanent by Claudio Cavallari
Mastering by Jessica Thompson
Artwork by Nathalie Berger
Design by Sophie Chauvin

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''Florent Ghys is one of a new breed of composer/performers who thrives on performing the music he composes. He creates highly contrapuntal, post-minimalist chamber music showcasing intelligent multi-tracking and inventive use of electronics and sampled speech.'' - Q2 radio ... more

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