Jean-Michel Pilc - Symphony (2023)

Paris-born Jean-Michel Pilc's artistic output springs from a far-reaching imagination and a fearless sensibility of musical exploration.

He is a self-taught pianist and composer. This gives him the freedom to have an unobstructed view of the palette of music and harmony. On his latest release »Symphony« he gives expression to his work in 2023.

In November 2021: "Right after recording Spanish saxophonist Xose Miguelez Contradictio's superb album 'Contradictio', and inspired by the perfect conditions at OJM Studios in Portugal - a beautiful Steinway piano, perfect acoustics and technical conditions - I decided that it's time for a special session in a special situation. José Trincado, our sound engineer, was kind enough to let me sit at the piano as long as I wanted, to improvise freely and be recorded doing it, with no intention other than music I started playing. When inspiration kicks in, you leave the 'real world' and the music takes you through a new universe. That happened, and when I stopped everyone was so thrilled with the result that they gave me generous offered to mix and master it carefully for what they said was an inevitable release after listening to it myself e, I agreed with her assessment. So here it is, and I hope the listener embarks on the same journey I did that day."