Jérôme Chassagnard – Tales Of The Piano / Part 2 (EP – Hymen Records)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, Experimental.
Format: Digital.
Background/Info: French artist Jérôme Chassagnard has already worked around different concepts, this second EP in the “Tales Of The Piano”-series dealing about an imaginary ‘atmospheric bridge between natural field recordings and tales of a piano’. This EP reveals three new songs, which come one year after the first chapter.
Content: The concept is easy and perfectly adapted into the songs. The dominant sound of the work is the piano performance, creating a kind of reverie and manifest Cinematographic style. Quite progressively you’ll hear the field recordings palette featuring different noises like birds, whispering vocals ao.
+ + + : This music brings you an imaginary movie, where you’ve to create your own images and universe. It’s totally suited as music for a visual theme and/or performance. The piano play is delicate and creates an evasive effect.
– – – : The point with digital EP’s is that it sometimes remains pretty short. I would have preferred to get an album featuring all songs from this EP-series instead of separate works.
Conclusion: Jérôme Chassagnard brings us a part of dreamy music mixed with an Experimental touch on top.
Best songs: “From The Very Beginning”.
Rate: 6.
Artist: https://myspace.com/jeromechassagnard
Label: www.hymen-records.com / www.facebook.com/hymenrecords
About Jérôme Chassagnard
Jérôme Chassagnard is a French electronic composer who has recorded since the 1990s, both solo and as one half of the duo Ab Ovo. His solo catalogue includes “(F)light” in 2008, “The Time From Underneath” in 2011, “Inner Dialog” in 2014, “Outer Dialog” in 2016, “Music For A Starlit Night” in 2017, “Sea” in 2018 and “Wind” in 2019.
He has worked with the German label Hymen Records, an imprint of Ant-Zen, which issued the “Childhood” EP in 2020 and the “Tales Of The Piano” series, starting with “Tales Of The Piano (Part 1)” in 2020 and continuing with the digital EP reviewed here in 2021. Later Hymen releases include the “Asian Breaks” EP in 2025 and the CD compilation “Hora Fugit” in 2026.
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