Quentin Sirjacq

far islands and near places

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Quentin Sirjacq, a French pianist-composer, releases his third original album.
By comparing with the piano-focused previous album “Piano Memories”, more rhythms can be heard through this entire album, by adding more polyrhythm patterns into music using percussions such as marimba, vibraphone, and glockenspiel.
The tone color is selected from piano, fender rhodes, or synthesizer according to composition style, and also jazz and classical music composition style is combined into electronic music with a mixture of various rhythm and genres, which will bring a new interpretation to the music.
Hoping to release an album from a faraway land Japan, then he began to explore for chances how the music can be accepted in the different culture. The music was written with his new sense by sharing the story, surrounding, and reality experienced in Japan.
Quentin Sirjacq continues searching for what “music” should be, and all the possibilities are contained with disorder in this piece of album.

quentin sirjacq - piano, fender rhodes, percussions, synthetiseurs
arnaud lassus - marimba, vibraphone, glockenspiel

recorded and mixed by vincent taurelle at a.l.b.e.r.t studio in pantin
july 2015
mastered in tokyo by hiroshi iguchi
october 2015

all music composed by quentin sirjacq
a&r : akira kosemura
art work - les fruits du dessin #6 by jerôme zonder
art direction : shin kikuchi
production management schole inc.

Since the release of the first album "La Chambre Claire" in 2010, Quentin Sirjacq has regularly toured Japan as solo pianist, and has made two other solo albums (Piano Memories and Far Islands & Near Places). In addition, he works energetically as a composer for Theater plays, dance choreographies, radio plays and most notably for films.

In Sirjacq's music, the emotional touch of the piano, merged with the elements of French Impressionism and its classical roots, combines wonderfully with elements influenced by contemporary music, American minimalism, jazz and electronic music. .

For several years he has been a traveling companion and regular collaborator of Chris Hooson (Dakota Suite), he also played with Meredith Monk, Fred Frith, Shazad Ismaily, William Winant ....