Album release: piano, crooner and Genevan rock

A twilight and confined piano

Contemporary During a residency in Berlin during Covid, Kevin Juillerat was introduced by Cédric Pescia to the prepared piano technique, invented by John Cage shortly before the Second World War. The Lausanne composer therefore plunged body and soul into the petrified resonances and furious cracklings of a transformed piano, rumbling like magnetic storms or obscure underground flows. He adds a few electronic echoes to envelop “Dämmerung (fünf Sonaten ohne Interludien)” with an even more indefinable halo.

We thus grope our way in a darkness that is sometimes difficult to breathe, but which unexpectedly leads to paltry music boxes draped in silence. Cédric Pescia and Kevin Juillerat are opening the album at the Ferme des Tilleuls in Renens on June 20 at 7 p.m. (fermedestilleuls.ch). (MCH)

Rock crooner with contagious nostalgia

Rock Lovers of old rock rarely have anything to sink their teeth into. The Stray Cats have definitely lost their way and the weirdos who kept the psychobilly alive almost all died “electrococaine”… Richard Hawley therefore keeps the lantern of tradition lit. The Englishman from Sheffield, friend of Jarvis Cocker (and briefly guitarist of Pulp), forgot his past in Brit pop (with Longpigs) and invented a second career as a rock crooner.

In this role, taking on dreams powdered with nostalgia, he prefers ballads halfway between Elvis and Sinatra, but does not disdain some more stormy forays. Here at least is the rather languorous cocktail of its latest addition, after having already delivered several successes in the genre such as “Truelove’s Gutter” in 2009 and “Standing at the Sky’s Edge” in 2012, the latter even having become a musical in 2019 , currently taken up at Gillian Lynne Theater London until August 2024. (BSE)

Progressive rock progresses

Rock It is reassuring to note that time dulls neither desire nor talent. Among the Swiss groups flying high the flag of post-hardcore that the finest music lovers had drifted into the waters (long hated by themselves) of progressive rock, Brazen had seduced far and wide with “Aura, Dora” , in 2006.

Almost twenty years later, the Genevans pick up the story where they left it, on the terrain of rock whose instrumental complexity serves an ultramelodic ambition. The voices, the guitars, the rhythm mix together to produce a heady, captivating music, where Pink Floyd is louder than Fugazi. Produced by the impeccable Serge Morratel, this “Distance” does not betray any shortness of breath and ensures beautiful domestic flights, eyes closed on the sofa, ears and imagination wide open. (FBA)

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