Fantômes... Futurs, by Kham Meslien

Fantômes... Futurs

by Kham Meslien

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Pilot Fish Love this. Such soul and incredible musicianship! Check out some of his live performances on YouTube. Can't choose a favourite track - they're all engaging and inspiring in their own way. Thank you Kham <3

kurotaito This is such a great album! I am still trying to learn these basslines on my bass guitar. The complexity over top each string pull and harmonic touch is something that your ears will gravitate towards and thank you for the listening. Favorite track: Kar kar kar.

Buisson Guérisons garantie. <3

David Smith Such a warm rich sound, and nice rhythms with lyrical touches. Fantastic cover art too. A delight all round. Favorite track: Ta confiance.

mcdan77 Lovely record for deep listening. I guess the obvious comparison would be Henri Texier - and there is something of that vibe - but this is different: more jazz, free-form solo adventuring around more structured/rhythmic sections; even with a touch of 'contemporary classical' at times. The feeling is sometimes hopeful & anticipatory, sometimes more foreboding. I particularly like the tracks with the percussion backing but also the brilliant F comme. Would be amazing live, no doubt Favorite track: A travers les orages.

John Seltenreich this is a lovely, deep, thoughtful exploration by an artist and his instrument. five copies left? just buy one. you'll find no regret in these tracks

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1.	Ta confiance 05:15	buy track
2.	Mauza 01:01	buy track
3.	The alarm 04:34 video	buy track
4.	La couleur (Elbows of the land feat. Anthony Joseph) 05:52 video	buy track
5.	Kar kar kar 02:59	buy track
6.	Gnawen 04:37	buy track
7.	Le saule pleureur 00:42	buy track
8.	F comme 03:56 video	buy track
9.	A travers les orages 04:36	buy track
10.	Fantômes... Futurs 01:00	buy track

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A festival organizer asks for a solo, and it is for Kham Meslien the trigger as much as the revelation. Twenty years of loyal service in a band, and Kham left the artistic direction of his career to the strings of his double bass. From now on, this one should take the less codified road of music where freedom reigns. That of jazz and its improvisations dictated by the moment, that of purely instrumental compositions. Written and honed on stage, Kham's compositions have benefited from an imposed lock down to be refined and immortalized in "Fantômes...Futurs", his first solo album.

Double bass player turned leader, Kham has placed his double bass, a fine mix of power and gravity, at the center of a virtual band in which he occupies all the positions. Percussions struck on the wood of his imposing instrument, discrete brooms or rhythmic double bass have handed over their spells to the printed circuits of a looper. Looped, cadenced, each one was then replayed on itself, the time of several measures. The time for Kham to install the deep tone and the warmth of strings that resonate on the wood to become storytellers. A music with images where the vibrations blacken the first lines, impulse melodies and themes, then leave the solos the freedom to speak to write the following.

An intense, instinctive, emotional speech.

To cross a melancholic storm before finding the immensity of a plain above which to glide. To follow the novel of an Andean charango playing oriental melodies, blurring both places and distances, mixing cultures to become one. Clinging to the suspense of the notes, following the sinuosities that lead to darkness as well as to light. Or go the other way around. To settle down near Anthony Joseph for the attentive listening of a poetry, only vocal title of the album.

On the voluminous body of an instrument in balance on its foot, the climates follow one another, the lively and velocity fingers fade in favor of the bow which will go to seek in the strings dramaturgy and buried feelings. "Ta Confiance", "The Alarm" or "Le Saule Pleureur", each title tells Kham's story as much as it gives the indication of the track to follow. Each one is then free to go where he wants, the paths being different as the listening goes on and especially as the moment passes.

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released September 23, 2022

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Kham Meslien Angers, France

Bassist of the Lo'Jo band until 2016, Kham Meslien has performed on all continents, from the big stages of megacities to the Australian and American deserts. He also plays in the trio Sweet Back and has collaborated with many international musicians. With "Fantômes... Futurs", Kham Meslien embarks on a new adventure, introspective and shared. ... more

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