Wakan - Being Dantès (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

South-Korean pianist Francesca Han, French double bassist Pierre Fenichel, and drummer Fred Pasqua combine their unique talents and worlds in WAKAN.

'Being Dantès' is the first fruit of this collaboration: a repertoire of compositions where obvious, familiar melodic lines navigate complex and unique structures.

Inspired by the first part of Alexandre Dumas's novel, while imprisoned in the Château d'If, Edmond Dantès slowly transforms before being reborn as the Count of Monte Cristo. The trio invites us to a musical experience, a journey through this initiatory process that unfolds in sound.

The pieces in the repertoire, which includes a four-movement suite, are conceived as pictures that revisit the decisive moments in the intimate adventure of the walled-up Edmond Dantès. They evoke the tension created when an interiority and an imaginary world are in motion in a motionless, complex, and elusive environment. During his Kafkaesque imprisonment, time expands, each person tells their own story, and reason vacillates: "We must put the mad with the mad." 
Silence, even the smallest sounds, take on their full significance: the eddies of the waves, the footsteps of the jailers—a sonic topography takes hold, replacing the alternation of days and nights, a new existential dimension takes hold.

All the pictures constitute a formal musical exploration (metric, harmonic, architectural, etc.) as well as a variation on the sensory palette of Edmond Dantès.

The idea of revisiting this modern and universal myth emerged during the multiple lockdowns of the Covid-19 health crisis.

Tracklist:
01 L'aile d'un rêve
02 Spinning top
03 Major
04 Acacias
05 Dantès I
06 Dantès II
07 Wakan
08 The void ahead
09 Enfant automne
10 Aldous' Journey
11 La marée


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