Jérôme Lefebvre FMR Orchestra - Jérôme Lefebvre FMR Orchestra (2024)

FMR Orchestrâ by guitarist Jérôme Lefebvre brings together six strong personalities from the French jazz scene for “How Far Does Music Evaporate?” ".
It is their richness and their open-mindedness that guided Jérôme Lefebvre in his choices, each member of the orchestra developing other musical adventures with open and original aesthetics. The multiple possibilities offered by this sextet allow him to develop and expand his work as a composer. This palette of timbres and tessituras stimulated his imagination and pushed him to explore new directions. In addition to the heritage of jazz, we hear in this album the echo of popular, classical, contemporary and improvised music.
With this new musical suite, Jérôme Lefebvre plays with the listener and his relationship to music. It is a journey into what we could call “emo-sound”. Here, we cross multiple aesthetics which question the ways of receiving music: what is the part of the body and that of the intellect? “How far does music evaporate? » rethinks the notions of the forms and dynamics of musical objects. The diversity of styles, orchestrations, variations, improvisations exploit without prejudice the relationships between melody and harmony, range and timbre. This original writing is enriched by the remarkable contribution of the six musicians who make the orchestra sound with sensitivity at the same time as they brilliantly develop talent and originality. Notes, rhythms, noises and flows are expressed with humor and finesse and this joyful sextet is the new place of joyful eclecticism which allows us to be in the world, together, free and now. All the precious beauty of the ephemeral...