Your upcoming album ‘Gear(s)’ is a collaborative intertwining between Jeanne Briand and Franco-Italian instrumentalist, composer, and producer Romain Azzaro. Tell us about your first encounter. What sparked the harmony, and what differences did you both have that somehow complemented the vision?
Romain: We met with Jeanne in 2006 in a concert in Paris, and had a love story for 10 years, during these teenage times we where both artistically evolving on each side, Jeanne was exploring the realm of making glass at the Beaux arts of Paris and i was in the end of my Punk bands era (as a Guitarist and Singer) and started to discover the beauty of electronic music.
When we were both discovering nightclubs and dance music, we dreamed of making music together.
The tracks on ‘Gear(s)’ embody a maximal exaltation of nature and evoke a sort of meditation practice, with the ability to estrange from the external world. Was this the core of your work, or what sensations do you seek to evoke?
Romain: After moving to Berlin in 2011, we separated. We both had a big artistic evolution, Jeanne still with her Glass and contemporary art works, and myself with experimental music… After couple of years, we got back artistically together with our first album “A Gamete Glass Tale” in 2016, it was part of Jeanne’s exhibition “Gamete Glass” for her final exam at Les Beaux Arts of Paris. This first album was the testimony of our mutual love for music, so we filtered instruments (Guitar, Piano and Voice) into the Glass to make a very melodic and emotional, yet experimental album.
Gear(s) is part of another exhibition for the FTMA festival in Paris. We decided to invert the concept of the first album, it is more mechanical, so the Glass sounds filter through instruments and machines. The album is now being released on Paris-Venice-Berlin based Fluxus Temporis, a multidisciplinary platform bridging the gap between sound, spaces & arts.