Bon Voyage Organisation is a project led by Adrien Durand, renowned Parisian bass keyboard player, composer, producer and mixing engineer having worked with noteworthy projects such as Amadou & Mariam and Papooz among others. He has announced the release of a new album called (Loin des) Rivages which will be out on March 4th. “Le Sentier des Orpailleurs” is the new excerpt.
Listen below.
According to the press release, (Loin des) Rivages was recorded over five days in June 2020 at Studio Atlas, the studio of Air’s Jean-Benoit Dunckel and mixed the following summer by Adrien Durand in his Parisian studio, Bureau 12. It was an orchestrated performance considering that all ten tracks of the album were played live, gathering up to thirteen musicians in the same room. The album follows what was initiated with BVO’s previous album La Course: an entirely instrumental sound free from any constraints.
The close collaboration between Adrien Durand and the members of the ensemble allowed for an exquisite completion. Together, they deliver the incredible energy of Sentier des Orpailleurs, the depth of melancholy of Apacheta, and the originality of Et s’éveillent…
Inspired by the great explorers of the soul: Sun Ra, Moondog and Coltrane – a cover of his Naïma actually opens the album – Adrien Durand mixes humanity’s first instruments (percussion and the wind) with its latest ones (mixing desks and synthesizers).