#chassol

► LISTEN to this Playmoss playlist: Good Fridays by Chassol Pianist, composer, arranger and musical director (he has worked with artists such as Phoenix, Sébastien Tellier and Frank Ocean), Cristoph Chassol is author of five brililant LP and dozens of original soundtracks: a proof of his talent to compose playful, magnetic and enigmatic sketches, halfway between jazz, contemporary music and pop. He’s also the inventor of the “ultrascore”: compositions that, by combining voice, music, sounds and images of every day life are transformed into new audiovisual objects. 

Chassol is one of the best and most inventive jazz creators of our generation, following on the footsteps of Steve Reich and similar composers, while also adding so much more.

Words: Andy Hughes (Photo Credit: Louis Canadas) As snow settles throughout the land and the Christmas deccies go up in every other house on the street, we eschew the festivities of the month and crack on with our regular monthly playlist! For those not in the know – every month we focus on twenty tunes as part of our ‘Listening Post‘, compiling a list of the very tracks that have had us all…