Voyage imaginaire dans les ruines de Detroit
inspired by photographs of Romain Meffre et Yves Marchand
featured in the book Ruins of Detroit
SYLVAIN DANIEL electric bass, composition
LAURENT BARDAINNE tenor saxophone
MANUEL PESKINE keyboards
MATHIEU PENOT drums
YVES LE GUEN & LAURENT SIMONINI video
Sylvain Daniel is a bassist and hybrid musician whose name has been associated as often with the jazz scene — the ONJ of Olivier Benoit, and such figures as Vincent Courtois or Thomas de Pourquery — as with milieus like electro (Bot’Ox), pop (Camelia Jordana), hip-hop (The Wolphonics, Gaël Faye) or world music (The Afrorockerz, Yom). In 2016, he’s presented us his first project leading his own group, Palimpseste – Voyage imaginaire dans les ruines de Detroit.
The inspiration behind the material in this project lies in the photographs of Romain Meffre and Yves Marchand featured in the book Ruins of Detroit, images that have already formed the basis of a multimedia scenography. Sylvain Daniel has never been to Detroit. But ever since he can remember, he’s been listening to the music of Motor City, from the initial soul of Motown to the hip-hop of Jay Dee, not forgetting the minimalist electro of Juan Atkins. It was when he discovered the book of the above two young French photographers that he made the connexion between the origins of all these artists; and he realized the influence that Detroit had wielded over his own musical culture without his ever having set foot there… And so Palimpseste was born, an invitation to an immersion in a Detroit of his own imagining, a city whose art still transpires in the multiple strata of its abandoned tenements, like a parchment that needs scraping to disclose its story.
FIRST ALBUM
RELEASED MARCH 2, 2018
ONJ Records JF006 – L’Autre Distribution
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CONCERTS
APRIL 3, 2018
ALBUM RELEASE CONCERT
BANLIEUES BLEUES FESTIVAL
MONTREUIL, FRANCE
NOVEMBER 28, 2018
PANNONICA – NANTES, FRANCE
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