La Derive Des Reves [CD]

This new album, urgent and human, explores our uncertain times. It showcases Jérôme Minière's DIY electronic roots, his love of jazz, film scores, and sentimental, minimalist, contemporary, and classical music. Numerous collaborations contribute to the richness of the arrangements: Poirier, Salomé Leclerc, Albin de la Simone, Eric Deleporte (of PERIO), Matthieu Malon, Guido Del Fabbro and Philippe Brault (strings), Guillaume Bourque (clarinets), and José Major (drums). This eclectic musical labyrinth, halfway between the past and the present, intimate and universal, is threaded through by a single emotional, poetic, and minimalist guiding thread. Jérôme Minière uses his own unique words to reflect on the crises shaking our era, from the rise of extremism to the boom in AI