A year after presenting “Muse”, the singer-songwriter and singer Réjean Doyon returns to the charge with “Entre ciel et mer”.
A brand new album which features 14 instrumental compositions, 100% piano. “The creation takes a lot of time and I had it,” he said at the start of the telephone interview. He took advantage of the pandemic, while his tuner work was in slow motion, to compose. “Usually I take a lot longer than that. But this time, it took a year, ”he says. Between two snowshoe hikes or a cross-country ski tour, he composed, with a free spirit.
He wrote quite a bit every day, four or eight bars at a time, looking back on his work. This results in planing, restful, uncluttered pieces. “I didn’t put on any artifice, I went there with the pure essence of creation, with nothing to hide or to support,” he notes.
To do this, he used his favorite instrument, the piano, opting at the same time for simple, positive melodies, turned towards the future. “There is one that is more nostalgic,” he said.
As for the title, it represents, for the composer, a zone out of time, a suspended moment. Regarding the different pieces, the titles are also inspired by this area, as for “A piano in the clouds”, for example. As for “Promenade sur la montagne” (Mont Arthabaska) or “A garden near the falls” (Kingsey Falls), it is more from the region that the titles originate.
For Réjean Doyon, this is a fourth solo album. And those who know his work will notice in this new opus a beautiful musical maturity. The composer simply wanted to express himself, without trying to impress. “The challenge remains to renew oneself in continuity,” he says. Indeed, when he writes, he never fails to go back to his old material in order to ensure that he is not redundant. “Inspiration is something fragile,” he says again.
You can listen to the new album or get the tracks on Spotify, iTunes, YouTube or Bandcamp.
Réjean wishes, by making his pieces available, to give them visibility and dissemination. “The goal is to share my music,” he hopes.
As for the cover, a photo taken in Rivière-du-Loup, it goes well with the title, with the essence of the pieces.
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