Guillaume Perret & the Electric Epic – Open Me (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 47:55 minutes | 548 MB | Genre: Jazz, Jazz Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Kakoum Records
Guillaume Perret & The Electric Epic is a French jazz fusion band, founded in 2008 by composer and sax player Guillaume Perret. “Open Me” is the quartet’s third full-lenght album.
At the helm of his cyber-tenor sax driven by a floor pedal, Guillaume Perret Electric Epic captain of his Quartet, transports us into a stunning visual and aural spectacle. The confines of a multisensory universe made of frenzied improvisations and striking reminders, near a jazz universe transgender exhilarating influences master New York John Zorn are felt…
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Guillaume Perret – Free (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 49:47 minutes | 486 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Kakoum Records
A saxophone, the desire to unravel a new kind of sound. Guillaume Perret is a sound explorer. He plays the wa-wa pedals and electric effects to elevate his notes to a new and surprising universe, one that makes you dream, distorting sounds to make them strangely more musical. His music doesn’t belong to a specific genre, rather it calls upon our senses. It is an innovative mixture of contemporary Jazz, funky grooves, screaming metal… a hybrid sort of music, troubling, bewitching, that evokes sensations and imagery. Designed as a movie soundtrack, Free aims to be a free path through different landscapes, different emotion.
The choice of this charged word for the title of his new album will surely nourish the already lively debate on the nature of Guillaume Perret’s brand of jazz. Just what exactly is it, anyway ? „Composed like a film score, FREE is a winding course ranging through various musical landscapes and emotional states“, explains the saxophonist, inviting us in for a glimpse of his deepest artistic convictions: „I had to abandon some of the slick licks and sure-fire chops. Hard as that was, it freed my playing up and offered something better – artistic honesty… I don’t need to please an audience to feel confident on stage anymore, and I feel so much freer to play what I want to“.
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Guillaume Perret – A Certain Trip (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 57:58 minutes | 671 MB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © French Paradox
This album is a cinematic journey, a step into enhanced reality. I wanted to create music which is captivating and which connects our deepest inner self to the outside world. Whatever the images and the sounds that surround us, I made sure that they always blend well with the sound adventure offered in these long compositions, so that we feel like in a movie, between reality and fiction.
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