Géraud Portal

The first song is the theme song to the album : each musician has made its voice heard in the course of a brief chorus. Fort Greene Vibes is a hymn to this area of New York raised in the films of Spike Lee, an area where Geraud lived during the recording sessions. The following composition is a tribute to John Coltrane and its Positive Music that has been decisive in his desire to play. In the Sound of the Universe, Geraud tells us about the need to stay connected to the Universe in the middle of a city of several million people. It is bubbling, which is discussed in New York City, an immersion in the veins and arteries of the Big Apple, whose heart never ceases to beat.

My desire to create this band and this album dates back to January 2020, just before the Covid pandemic.

The music you are going to listen to is in the image of Ugo Lemarchand. A tidal bore. It takes you from one end of the work to the other with mixed sensations of power and softness. Voluble, sincere and fair, between vibrant standards and personal compositions, the heart which speaks for Thalia, without being overwhelmed by emotion, Ce22, who reasons like an affirmation, the intriguing One Shot, the notebook describes a long journey including All the steps appear clearly to us from the first listen. As if the doubts of the man with the pen and the saxophone vanish as the notes become anchored. No doubt you will sometimes hear the colors of John Coltrane or Joe Henderson, his first inspirations.