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$32.00
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RELEASE DATE: 3/6/2026
It is in the inspiring calm of his brand-new studio in Bagnolet that Etienne Jaumet found the material for Du cortex à l'iris, his new album recorded for his label Versatile Records. Du cortex à l'iris continues the delicate balance that defines Jaumet's signature: a constant tension between hypnotic abstraction and an almost animal groove. "To reduce the distance between my cortex and my senses, in order to compose mental images with sounds," he says. This intention runs through the entire album: a desire to make people dance, yes, but with echoes of EBM, bursts of cinematic landscapes, and that singular way of slowly inducing trance rather than declaring it. Saxophone, synths, analog drum machines: the arsenal remains familiar, but the approach is even more direct. Playing fast, composing in the moment, letting the hand run before the mind corrects. Capturing something primal, spontaneous, almost raw -- as if the sound were really passing, this time, directly from the cortex to the iris.
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A lot of water has passed under the bridge since the 2009 release of Etienne Jaumet's Night Music. His hypnotizing music and enchanting live performances put him directly on the map. Between Night Music and the creation of La Visite, Jaumet was not idle. Not only has he worked on numerous collaborations (with, among others, Joakim, Richard Pinhas, Frànçois & the Atlas Mountains) and picked up DJing, but he also released a Zombie Zombie album, 2012's Rituels d'un nouveau monde with Cosmic Neman, as well as Zombie Zombie's soundtrack for the 2013 film Loubia Hamra, and worked with artist Félicie d'Estienne d'Orves on the 2013 installation Satori. At the time of this album's release, Jaumet and his saxophone are on tour with James Holden. As a musician, Jaumet is in total control; he smoothly moves from his saxophone to his drum machine (his beloved TR 808) while turning knobs, modulating synths, and sending his voice through an echo. La Visite is more luminous and jazzy than its predecessor, and was composed and produced within a two-month period in the Versatile studio. It became a piece of introspection, mentally as well as physically. In the title-track, for which Flóp wrote the text, we hear Jaumet travelling through the inside of a body, Fantastic Voyage style. For the recording, Jaumet would arrive at the studio without any precise idea in mind, approaching his work rather intuitively. He works standing up, which brings a very different energy than being seated behind a computer polishing up every detail. He is in total mastery of his set-up, ready to capture that short-lived moment of true creation. The only use a computer has for him is to record his experiments, which are mixed afterward by Jérôme Caron (Blackjoy).
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LP version. A lot of water has passed under the bridge since the 2009 release of Etienne Jaumet's Night Music. His hypnotizing music and enchanting live performances put him directly on the map. Between Night Music and the creation of La Visite, Jaumet was not idle. Not only has he worked on numerous collaborations (with, among others, Joakim, Richard Pinhas, Frànçois & the Atlas Mountains) and picked up DJing, but he also released a Zombie Zombie album, 2012's Rituels d'un nouveau monde with Cosmic Neman, as well as Zombie Zombie's soundtrack for the 2013 film Loubia Hamra, and worked with artist Félicie d'Estienne d'Orves on the 2013 installation Satori. At the time of this album's release, Jaumet and his saxophone are on tour with James Holden. As a musician, Jaumet is in total control; he smoothly moves from his saxophone to his drum machine (his beloved TR 808) while turning knobs, modulating synths, and sending his voice through an echo. La Visite is more luminous and jazzy than its predecessor, and was composed and produced within a two-month period in the Versatile studio. It became a piece of introspection, mentally as well as physically. In the title-track, for which Flóp wrote the text, we hear Jaumet travelling through the inside of a body, Fantastic Voyage style. For the recording, Jaumet would arrive at the studio without any precise idea in mind, approaching his work rather intuitively. He works standing up, which brings a very different energy than being seated behind a computer polishing up every detail. He is in total mastery of his set-up, ready to capture that short-lived moment of true creation. The only use a computer has for him is to record his experiments, which are mixed afterward by Jérôme Caron (Blackjoy).
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