L'Orphéon de Corentin Rio - Au milieu des choses (2019)

Corentin Rio is part of the rising generation, as we usually say. We had met here and there this drummer freshly thirty. With In the middle of things and a formation identified under the term "Orpheon", it comes in the big leagues, and it is very happy because this album is delicious. There is a lot of elegance, chic, sensitivity. All seven tracks are superbly licked. The tessitura, the melodies - which are queen here - the chorus - as evidenced for example by Romain Cuoq and Leonardo Montana on "Suddenly, yesterday" - everything is exquisite.

The icing on the cake, the album is both eclectic and homogeneous. Eclectic because between "Does the Moon Also Fall" dominates the voice - superb for the rest - Ellinoa as well as Leonardo Montana's Fender Rhodes and "Dear Clara Freud" which ends the album in a melancholy, almost dark, there has a big gap. And yet, a red thread leads us from one end to the other of this beautiful record. Difficult to define but it undeniably has to do with delicacy.