Romain Pilon
Falling Grace
Jazz&People, 2022

 
March 8, 2022

Falling Grace is Romain Pilon’s latest album which is completely dedicated to standards.

A very brilliant and original French guitarist, I was particularly impressed with Romain Pilon’s 2018 album “Copper”. With “Falling Grace”, the seventh album of his career, Pilon presents a record filled with “standards” that, in fact, are not standard! These are songs written by artists such as Herbie Hancock, Steve Swallow, Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis but the songs themselves are not particularly well known (with the possible exception of “Golden Earrings” and “Horace-Scope”) which is rearranged and revisited.

 

The guitarist trio features Yoni Zelnik on double bass and Jeff Ballard on drums. The wonderfully recorded record is characterized by the excellent interplay of the musicians and by the beautiful choices of a minimalist sound in performances and arrangements. Pilon is a personal guitarist who, assisted by Zelnik and Ballard, is able to explore fascinating sound worlds not often frequented by guitarists.

The best moments are the most languid and lyrical ones (“Lament”, “Golden Earrings”, “Nicolette”) but there is no lack of more aggressive and incisive songs (“Side Car”, “Bye Ya”), funk attitude (“Interlude”) , swing (“By Myself”, “Horace-Scope”). Falling Grace is an interesting album in many respects: repertoire, arrangements, musical poetics of the three protagonists, sounds that recall both tradition and the contemporaneity. A great album, particularly recommended for guitar lovers but that will be appreciated by everybody. (EM)

 


 

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