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Christophe Chassol, the eye listens

2021-07-15T16:18:43.381Z


To celebrate its 21st edition, the Marseille Jazz des Cinq Continents festival gives carte blanche to the composer. There he continues his multisensory exploration.


Musician, composer of soundtracks, arranger, performer… Christophe Chassol is one of those overflowing spirits that cannot be locked in a box.

With this carte blanche, “Chassol and friends”, on July 17 at the Théâtre Silvain, the jack-of-all-trades with false tunes from Basquiat redouble their creativity and invite his friends - the saxophonist Thomas de Pourquery, the flutist Jocelyn Mienniel and the vocalist Cynthia Abraham - to enter her world.

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At the beginning, no one would have bet on the future of this mad scientist, whose universe wandering between pop, jazz and electro, is made up of sensory trips between sounds and images.

If he collaborates with artists like Phoenix or Sébastien Tellier, it is his meeting with Bertrand Burgalat, in 2012, boss of the experimental pop label Tricatel, which allows him to sign his first album

X-Piano

under his name.

“We had a good time with Bertrand

,” he admits today.

He was the first to understand what I was doing

.

"

Cinema has this ability to bring everything together.

The decor, the music, the comedy, the editing… It's an endless playground.

Christophe Chassol

Because Christophe Chassol has

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Source: lefigaro

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