Antony Soler - Melody to My Skull (2019)

First album of Antony Soler, (drummer and bearer of this project) who surrounds himself with a shock team (Laurent David: electric bass, Thomas Puybasset: saxophones, and Alexandre Saada on piano and Fender Rhodes) to record some pearls; popsongs, french songs and other wonders gleaned here and there, who rocked his youth so much and so much, to the point of printing the inside of his skull, irremediably.

Unpublished raw materials for many of these pretexts to improvisation as well as to the excellent surprises which, through the masterful play of the four musicians particularly invested, renew without affeter with the best of the contemporary jazz.
It will also highlight the presence (and relevance) of the electric bass (who else better embodies it than Laurent David today?) In a jazz combo - because it is all about this - a jazz quartet, sometimes sensitive, sometimes powerful and often jubilant whose energy that crosses the album from one side to the other dispenses with beauty.
We are taken, piece after piece, into the artistic world of Antony Soler, inexorably and certainly for the best.
Thomas Puybasset (who was heard in the band M & t @ l in a much more electric record), remarkable soprano saxophone (here in a more acoustic context), finds in Alexandre Saada, pianist of a rare elegance, a comrade game with inexhaustible resources.
Finally, a superb pouch, with the clearly psychedelic stances dear to the Fab Fours, signed Arnaud Gosset, also enlightens us as to the musical and artistic influences of the young leader impregnated with the sounds of the seventies ...
A first album for Antony Soler, Melody To My Skull is certainly, already, a very beautiful success.