Birdsong, everyday conversations, street performances by street musicians, children's choruses, drums beating at carnivals, etc. . Chasseur is a brilliant French musician who finds melodies in field-recorded travel sketches, layers melodies on the keyboard, and creates a magical sound world by adding loops, harmonies, drum beats, and other elements.
Born in 1976 to parents from Martinique, a city known for its elegant French Caribbean music, he has been active as a keyboardist and arranger in the early 2000s, touring with the world-famous French rock band Phoenix and Sébastien Tellier. He has been active as a keyboardist and arranger for French rock bands such as Phoenix and Sébastien Tellier since the early 2000s, but it was the advent of YouTube that gave him the opportunity to develop his current solo style. Chasseur became fascinated with freely viewing and editing countless videos posted from around the world, and eventually "came up with the idea that I could make my own music through the music used in the videos" (*from an interview in the July 2015 issue of "LATINA"), . In 2006, he created "Russian KIdz" using sound images of Russian children singing innocently as material. Using this work as a starting point, he began to produce his own videos around 2008, and has since been creating his own pop works that fuse elements of field recordings, music concrete, minimal music, hip-hop, contemporary jazz, and world music in his own unique pop style. Chasseur's music is a fusion of elements of field recordings, music concrete, minimal music, hip-hop, contemporary jazz, and world music in a unique pop form.
Music concrete is a method of contemporary music that uses concrete sounds such as recorded natural sounds, environmental sounds, and noise, rather than musical sounds, as the name implies. It has been applied to pop music such as hip-hop and electronica as a matter of course, thanks to the development of sampling equipment and the like.
Chasseur's music has elements of hip-hop in the way he creates loops and layers breakbeats, but there is nothing similar to the way he creates melodies and harmonies from miscellaneous field recordings, and then composes an album as if it were a grand symphony. The compositional method and product is what one might describe as "new music concrete pop" born out of the post-YouTube environment. Chasseur cites the brilliant Brazilian multi-instrumentalist Hermeto Pascoal, who has been active since the 1960s, as one of his musical influences, but his music is also inspired by animal noises, presidential speeches, soccer games, and even the "banana-selling" bananas of Tokyo's Asakusa district. It is interesting to note that Hermet's music, which draws fantastic melodies from the mouths of "banana whackers" ("Feira De Asakusa"), is very similar, not only in technique but also in the mysterious melodies derived from them. Chassol has published a work on the web titled "Obama Harmonized By Chassol," which is based on a video of a speech by U.S. President Barack Obama. If you find this album interesting, please also take a listen to "Festa Dos Deuses" (Festival of the Gods), a masterpiece released in 1992, in which Hermeto even musicalized the sounds of birds and pigs in the speeches of the Brazilian president at the time.
At the Billboard Live concert scheduled for August, Chasseur is scheduled to perform songs from "Indiamore," released in 2001, which is based on sounds and images shot in India, on the first stage, and songs from his latest work, "Big Sun," released last year, which is based on his parents' hometown of Martinique, on the second stage. On the second stage, he is scheduled to perform songs from his latest album, "Big Sun," released last year, which is based on his parents' hometown of Martinique.
Indiamore" is a reconstruction of vivid footage shot in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), the second most populous city in India after Mumbai and Delhi, and Varanasi on the banks of the Ganges River, known as a sacred Hindu city. The film is an excellent work that invites the viewer to an unexperienced sound trip with the addition of skillful editing and harmonization using Chasseur's keyboard. As for his motivation for using Indian music as the subject matter, he says that he was attracted to the fact that there was space between the drones and high notes for Western musical elements, but the cool perspective that distinguishes this work from those simply devoted to Indian music and the coexistence of different cultures in a unique style is what makes it It's brilliant.
Big Sun" is a work that revisits his own roots, and features the soothing chirps of birds that can be likened to ambient music, a reading by Joby Bernabé, a master Creole poet who represents Martinique, and the stylish singing and whistling of Pipo Gertrude, a member of the Maravois band, also a treasure of Martinique and a favorite of world music fans in Japan. Pipo Gertrude, a former member of Maravois, a band that has been loved by world music fans in Japan, sings and whistles in a dazzling "Island Symphony" in three parts, with rap music by young local musicians and upper percussion rhythms played at carnivals. The work is a three-part epic that also makes full use of visuals. While the performance is highly multi-media, making full use of video, Chasseur's music, filled with a purity and humor that somehow seems to approach the roots of music, will surely open the door to a new sensibility.
Chasseur's sound world is steadily gaining wider attention, as his music was used in the "Paris in Rome" 2015-16 Métiers d'Art collection by the famous brand Chanel late last year. In September, Chasseur will release his new album "Ultrascore II," a collection of songs and remixes written for the soundtrack, which is already available digitally, on a limited analog vinyl edition.
Text_Hidesumi Yoshimoto
Chassol Billboard Live In Japan
Billboard Live Tokyo
Date: Monday, August 29, 2016
Time: 1st doors open 17:30 / Concert begins 19:00 , 2nd doors open 20:45 / Concert begins 21:30
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Billboard Live Osaka
Date: Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Time: 1st doors open 17:30 / Concert begins 18:30 , 2nd doors open 20:30 / Concert begins 21:30
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