Fougère is the project of London based pianist and composer Jamie Norton. We introduced him with the track “Movement”; now he has announced the release of the debut album called Still Life which will be out on May 7th via Studio Fougére. We already shared “Elder” and “Leap of Faith”; “Still Life” is a new excerpt. He explains:
“A few years ago I became really interested in the work of Italian artist Giorgio Morandi, “a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquility and privacy.” I was looking for this same sense of stillness and minimalism within this music; To try and capture a mood or moment, as if it were a still life painting.”
According to the press release, As a work of ten piano-only pieces, ‘Still Life’ sits within the same musical canon as Nils Frahm and Max Richter, but is truly his own, guided by his own unique inspirations. Having composed under his birth name for so long, Norton took his moniker ‘Fougère’ from one of his passions: smell. It’s the term for one of the main fragrance families, one that tends to have sweet lavender top notes with woodier, oakmoss undertones. He wanted his music to occupy a space and give a floating sense of calmness in the same way a fragrance would: “That’s why I sit at the piano. It’s meditative for me.”
Listen below and check the list of 5 tracks which have inspired his music.