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“Thanks to Philippe Cohen Solal for having the patience and lucidity to release these pieces today, at the pinnacle of their beauty” (Etienne Menu, Musique Journal)
Philippe Cohen Solal’s note on the production of this album:
Like wine, it’s interesting to put music through the test of time. Mind Food was composed and recorded some 20 years ago, and it is only now that we can tell if it is a good vintage. Originally I had the idea to create music for an imaginary film or a film yet to be released. During this period of my life, I was composing a lot for featured films, documentaries or commercials. I’ve always enjoyed working under the constraint of a scenario or a director, but I also know that the best films are often those where the images were assembled on music that was already scored or recorded. “The Thomas Crown Affair” with Steve Mc Queen & Faye Dunaway, which is the main reference for the arrangements on Mind Food, is one of these rare films, where the director Norman Jewison decided to follow the tempo of Michel Legrand’s score and not the other way around. Chassol who appears on this record also worked with me at this time, in fact it was one of his the first “jobs” neither of us could have imagined then that he would go on to produce incredible work with the likes of Frank Ocean or Solange, yet Chassol has always produced his own brilliant solo material, musical performances and visuals like Indiamore, Big Sun or just recently Ludi.
For the song “Inverno”, I had the chance to collaborate with a rare and precious singer, Green Gartside, frontman of the legendary band Scritti Politti, whose album Cupid & Psyche changed my youth in the 80s and whose sweet and fragile voice foreshadowed James Blake and the likes, 30 years earlier.
There are also two wonderful female performers, Nivo Rahoerson, jazz singer of Malagasy origin for “The Signs” and Gabriela Arnon, a New Yorker based in Paris, for the only cover on the album, the beautiful blue eyed soul and folk-jazz gem “Living’s worth loving” by Bostonian brothers David & Robin Batteaux, circa 1973.
None of this music seeks to follow any current trends, but instead deliberately wants to slow time down so that you can catch your breath and feel which way the wind will blow, I am hoping then it will be into your curious and attentive ears.
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Inverno: The voice of the brilliant Welshman, leader of Scritti Politti, Green Gartside, delivers a neo soul electronica ballad ala James Blake. Laying a tense and soft atmosphere in this crisp and minimalist production by Philippe Cohen Solal (Gotan Project).
CREDITS :
Track 1 written and composed by David Batteau
Track 2 written by Christophe Chassol & Philippe Cohen Solal
Track 3, 4, 6 composed by Philippe Cohen Solal & Christoph H. Muller
Track 5 written by Philippe Cohen Solal and composed by Philippe Cohen Solal & Christoph H Muller
Track 7 written by Green Gartside and composed by Philippe Cohen Solal & Christoph H. Muller
Track 4 & 6 arranged by Chassol
Musicians:
Flute: Cécile Daroux
Cello : Jean-Philippe Feiss
Piano: Christophe Chassol, Alexandre Gasparov
Electronic & guitars: Philippe Cohen Solal
Programming & keyboards: Christoph H. Muller
Produced by Philippe Cohen Solal
Tracks 1, 3, 5, 7 co-produced by Christoph H Muller
Recorded and mixed by Christoph H Muller @ Substudioz and Ken Ploquin @ EGP
Mastered by Benjamin Joubert @ Biduloscope
All songs published by Science & Mélodie except:
Living’s worth loving (c) 1972 Shiver an I Music Ltd
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