Hello people, today I come back with a treat !!
A brand new song, separated in 2 parts, that will hopefully be featured in my next album (in a few years, you know the drill...), but this time I share it with a full live band, and finally PROPERLY RECORDED AND CAPTURED LIVE
(video here : youtu.be/SKpz0vp3t0o
and here : youtu.be/fHyXgu0racQ )
This track was first composed in 2021 in my homestudio, when I still had hope to release an album within the same year lol, that changed and I decided to play it and record it with friends and musicians.

The title, "2 chords", is simply because the whole track is based on two chords, Abmaj9 and Gmaj9. It started as a test or an exercice to prove that with good arrangement, you don't need much to start a track. Just 2 chords are enough, then you introduce some transitions, melodies, variations, and try to make all that mess flow well together.

in 2021 after the first full mockups and preprod were done, I thought I would do differently than my previous releases. Like instead of insisting of doing it all by myself like a maniac, I would delegate as much as possible to my friends and musicians that I've met during the last few years. So I started by recording Benjamin on drums, summer 2021. Benjamin is also the pianist of my other band Itzamna. Can you imagine that, another multiinstrumentalist at my disposal...
Yes, in a perfect world, every single one of my clones would be replaced by a better and real musician and I wouldn't even play in it lol.

The difference the actual drums recording made was enough to convince me I needed to replace more of my own performances and programmations. Yes at the risk of loosing a bit of my very personal flavour and colour and diluting somehow the essence of my music by letting other people enter, but that's what I want to try now. I think I'm mature enough to know where to let go and where to retain, it's a thin balance between control and guiding the performances and still letting the possibility of unexpected surprises.

Hope you enjoy !!