Yonathan Avishai - Retrouvailles (2023) Hi Res

'Retrouvailles' is Yonathan Avishaï's first solo piano album, a new marvel. The solo piano seems particularly made for Yonathan, he who is in no way afraid of silences and who, on the contrary, knows how to make them intense and essential, vital. He plays them like notes, like a painter might add touches of color starting from a black canvas or like a stained glass designer. Every note sounds. Yonathan's music is delicately poetic, rich in history and meaning, and infinitely respectful of time. For this opus, he chose to record everything without intervention in a single take, as if for a reunion with himself, thus facing the doubts of the loneliness of his choices. With a rare elegance, he walks on each of the composed or borrowed titles without omitting anything that one could perceive as luminous, sincere and sublime. An initiatory journey... a moment of grace offered to us.