Jean-Christophe Renault\u00a0(Li\u00e8ge Belgium 1960)<\/p>\r\n
Jean-Christophe\u00a0Renault is an off-track pianist and composer.<\/p>\r\n
Neither a jazzman nor a world music musician, he could perhaps today be assimilated into the so-called neo-classical current, somewhere between Keith Jarrett and Erik\u00a0Satie.<\/p>\r\n
He\u00a0frequented jazz (a first record in 1981 with the saxophonists Jacques Pelzer\u00a0and Steve Houben), composition (studies at the Li\u00e8ge Conservatory with Frederic\u00a0Rewsky),
improvisation\u00a0(courses in Paris with Alan Silva at the IACP), Anglo-Saxon poets\u00a0(numerous\u00a0works on texts by W.B. Yeats and Emily Dickinson), solitude (6 albums of\u00a0Piano\u00a0Solo) and world music: Lena Willemark (Voice – Sweden), Ivan Stefanov\u00a0(Gadulka-Bulgaria), Didier Laloy (Accordion-Belgium) Satiena Soulama\u00a0(Balafon-Burkina-Faso) Johanna-Ad\u00e8le J\u00fcssi (Violin-Estonia)…<\/p>\r\n
\u201cEars\u00a0Have No Eyelids\u201d is his sixth solo piano album and the first reference on\u00a0Fabrice Lamproye’s new label.<\/p>\r\n
“Jean-Christophe celebrates low registers with high-pitched fervor, sings Yeats while bowing to Satie, thumbs his fingers at weightlessness as he makes his instrument sound a heavy chord. Why not\u00a0? He is elsewhere, in metal and fern, gypsy curves, gadjo cigars…….<\/p>\r\n
Jean-Christophe’s music is an oxymoron, a gentle caress to lost illusions, a feeling garnered after oh so many detours, this wave spreading on and on in the pond, to then invade the swamp and the ocean, where anyway nothing is dormant, and where fish flout the fishermen.<\/p>\r\n
Jean-Christophe Renault is this great singing engine with doors and windows and wheels to travel in, this big bear politely hiding behind his honey-rock, singing to whoever will listen\u00a0: “damn all the barbers”\u00a0\u2026..because for this child of the people, joy is melancholy, and darkness a cantata, an ink which rings, like a poem by Emily Dickinson.”\u00a0\u00a0Erno<\/p>","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-43","artistes","type-artistes","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"image_a_la_une":47},"yoast_head":"\n