- Jonathan Fournel
Chopin-Szymanowski
Karol Szymanowski: Variations op. 3, Variations on a Polish Popular Theme, op. 10. Frédéric Chopin: Sonata No. 3, Op. 58. Jonathan Fournel (piano).
Projected to the forefront in 2021 by winning first prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition of Belgium, pianist Jonathan Fournel has since given the impression of finding his way through the discs he records at a steady pace. This, the second released in six months by Alpha Classics, confirms the 30-year-old pianist’s taste for contrasting expressions, legitimate or not. His interpretation of the Sonata No. 3 Frédéric Chopin’s (1810-1849) work conceals beautiful nuances (a long, elegant simplicity) behind the somewhat forced security of an authoritarian façade. More at home in the variation cycles of Karol Szymanowski (1882-1937), which, in principle, unite oppositions of character, Jonathan Fournel seduces by the presentation of themes, judiciously presented as objects suitable for expansion. Pierre Gervasoni
Alpha Classics/Outside Music.
- Yannis and the wink
Lakes Paris London
Given the central role of the rhythm section in Foals’ music, this collaboration between the architect of the English post-punk group Yannis Philippakis and his idol, the late prodigious Nigerian drummer Tony Allen (1940-2020), a figure of Afrobeat, makes sense. The meeting took place in 2019, over two days, in a Parisian studio, with the support of three excellent French musicians, Vincent Taeger (Tiger Tigre, ex-Pony Hoax), Vincent Taurelle and Ludovic Bruni (Le Sacre du tympan). But Tony Allen’s death in April 2020 abruptly cut short the project, reducing it to five compositions. Here they are completed and presented four years later. Lakes Paris LondonOf course, we think of Foals in terms of the melodic and wonderful. tangerineBut above all, Philippakis rediscovers the taste for experimentation that had been lacking in recent times, revealing a wild work between rock, funk, dub and jazz, particularly in Green night, Heavy love AND The rain can’t reach uswhose interweaving of strings and percussion is a delight. Franck Colombani
Transgressive Records/PIAS.
YG, for Young Gangsta, is one of the ranks of the terrible gangs of Los Angeles. And a draw for this rapper born in the early 1990s, when the war between the different factions of South Central, Watts, Compton and Long Beach caused more than eight hundred deaths a year. Like Kendrick Lamar, who achieved the feat of bringing together the OG (Original Gangsta) of these gangs on stage for his anthem in June. Not like usYG has drawn from his history on the streets of the Californian megalopolis a music with an effective rhythm, in a version even rawer than that of his elder. For this I just re-uploaded 3you have to skip the first few songs and go straight to the title put it in my hand To find this irresistible energy of despair, then this Street lovehalf dancehall, half afrobeats, or let yourself be carried away by the powerful bass of Malibu either Violence. Stephanie Binet
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