Album lore

Monades, issued in December 2020 on iMD-Laboratoire d'Exploration Musicale, finds Julien Bigorgne navigating a confluence of jazz and French instrumental idioms with the oud as a central voice. The fourteen tracks, including “Murmures,” unfold with an impressionistic delicacy, balancing lyrical flute lines and subtle harmonic shifts. Bigorgne’s composition style here leans toward intricate interlacings and a nuanced exploration of timbre, evoking the album’s titles like “Entrelacs” and “Lune cendrée.”Though modest in circulation, the record’s quiet resonance rewards attentive listeners drawn to the fringes of contemporary jazz and chamber music. The label’s experimental bent complements Bigorgne’s deft command of form, making Monades a noteworthy artifact for those tracing the lineage of French jazz-inflected oud performance in the early 21st century.

Album lore

Monades, issued in December 2020 on iMD-Laboratoire d'Exploration Musicale, finds Julien Bigorgne navigating a confluence of jazz and French instrumental idioms with the oud as a central voice. The fourteen tracks, including “Murmures,” unfold with an impressionistic delicacy, balancing lyrical flute lines and subtle harmonic shifts. Bigorgne’s composition style here leans toward intricate interlacings and a nuanced exploration of timbre, evoking the album’s titles like “Entrelacs” and “Lune cendrée.”Though modest in circulation, the record’s quiet resonance rewards attentive listeners drawn to the fringes of contemporary jazz and chamber music. The label’s experimental bent complements Bigorgne’s deft command of form, making Monades a noteworthy artifact for those tracing the lineage of French jazz-inflected oud performance in the early 21st century.