“I am a 50+-year-old musician who loves to experiment with sound and music. I made this album as a birthday gift to myself and to my listeners.”
Franck Martin
Simple, plodding synth lines, minimal and always evolving, make up the entirety of the new album Je me Souviens (“I remember”) by Franck Martin. Inspired since the late 1970s by the groundbreaking electronic work of Jean-Michel Jarre, Martin says this latest work is an experiment in using a quadraphonic Eurorack modular synthesizer, a “complex and unpredictable” instrument which the artist wields to the best of his ability to ruminate on his own emotions at midlife. As suggested by Martin’s own amateurish photo of Mont Saint Michel in France which serves as artwork for the piece, the album is a modest, personal work, a small monument to memory, looking back on 50 years of life experiences, friends and family loved and lost. For a special treat, the album is also available in spatial audio on Apple Music, Tidal, and Amazon Music.
