It is not because Pascal Comelade has nothing to say that his albums are instrumental.
Far from there.
Shy and reserved at first glance, Pascal Comelade is very talkative when it comes to talking about what has always animated him: music.
The one that this music lover consumes with appetite since his early youth, and, also, the one he has signed on exciting records since 1974. His latest album,
The Popular Cut-up
(Because Music), bears the imprint of this unique creator .
The title is a manifesto in itself, an oxymoron which sums up the Comeladian gesture: a tension between scholarly art and popular art, a kind of mild schizophrenia.
"I can neither read nor write music, so I am in the skin of a musician of folk, traditional music or blues"
, he says.
With desire as a driving force, and an intact jubilation in handling the instruments.
"There is a part of mystery because I do not start from anything"
, he explains, pointing to the piano that sits in his music room,
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