Laurent Alexandre

Soprano Jodie Devos, who has signed with Alpha for several recordings, here pays homage to Offenbach, whose bicentenary of his birth is celebrated in 2019. This programme shows Offenbach’s fascination with the vocal fireworks of coloratura divas. This kind of ‘lyric coloratura’ or ‘soprano leggero’ voice runs like a thread through most of the composer’s oeuvre, from his first pieces for two or three soloists to those grand frescoes of his maturity, La Vie parisienne, Robinson Crusoé, and Orphée aux Enfers.

En plein banquet, à Babylone, au milieu de la musique et des rires, soudain Alexandre s'écroule, terrassé par la fièvre. Ses généraux se pressent autour de lui, redoutant la fin mais préparant la suite, se disputant déjà l'héritage et le privilège d'emporter sa dépouille. Le devoir et l'ambition, l'amour et la fidélité, le deuil et l'errance mènent les personnages vers l'ivresse d'une dernière chevauchée.

Le monde fait face à une épidémie de mauvais sommeil. Hugo Mercier, à tout juste 22 ans, s’est attaqué de front à ce problème. Partant d’un concept de laboratoire, il imagine dans sa chambre d’étudiant le premier outil neurotechnologique pour combattre ce fléau. …

First album of Antony Soler, (drummer and bearer of this project) who surrounds himself with a shock team (Laurent David: electric bass, Thomas Puybasset: saxophones, and Alexandre Saada on piano and Fender Rhodes) to record some pearls; popsongs, french songs and other wonders gleaned here and there, who rocked his youth so much and so much, to the point of printing the inside of his skull, irremediably. Unpublished raw materials for many of these pretexts to improvisation as well as to the excellent surprises which, through the masterful play of the four musicians particularly invested, renew without affeter with the best of the contemporary jazz.