David Lacroix - Ils Ont Planté Des Arbres (2025) [Hi-Res]

When we discover the music of David Lacroix (born in 1955), we discover a vast musical garden with original arrangements, flowers and trees with unknown scents and foliage, a garden exposed to several winds at the same time, which would blow from geographies to folklore and unpublished writings.

We discover a completely personal sense of rhythmicity, rethought from one work to another, that is, a sense of the musical phenomenon animated by ideas left as almost underground, which, however, run through his compositions and play with the music lover and his perception of forms, timbre, his own memory.

David Lacroix is an artist whose passionate knowledge of written and traditional music, his instrumental and vocal techniques, and the arts in general, is dazzling.

Guitarist, composer, he rubs shoulders with traditions where invention proves to be very close to improvisation, for example in classical Arabic and Persian music, or even in medieval music, but also the most modern jazz... and it is inexhaustible when it comes to explaining the ideas and forms that led to these centuries-old practices, their relationship to the literature or poetry of the time, languages, legends, arts and philosophers. But it is just as important when it comes to contemporary artistic creation.

This publication owes a lot to the musical energy, fond of new writing techniques, adopted by the formidable Parisian guitarist Caroline Delume, an intrepid and thoughtful performer at the same time, at the center of this disc: I particularly like to discover and study music that challenges and captivates me by arousing in me an interrogation about their musical conceptions, about the techniques that they require to learn or transform, which thus make me want to give them life by interpreting them, as opposed to music that would perhaps fall "better" under the fingers but would not provoke any particular curiosity in me.