On November 12, Belgian jazz vocalist David Linx, Parisian by adoption, is releasing a new album, Be my Guest (“You are my guest”), one year later Skin in the Game. For his new musical project, the singer has recorded fifteen unreleased duets with guests such as guitarists Nguyen Lê and Marc Ducret, Brazilian mandolinist Hamilton from Holanda, flutist Magic Malik, pianists Ran Blake and Gustavo Beytelmann, German singer Theo Bleckmann, among others …
In preview, he unveiled on October 22 on Youtube the night and dreamlike clip of the first single from his album, Round Midnight (1944), one of the most beautiful jazz themes, composed by the American pianist Thelonious Monk (and which was completed with lyrics by Bernie Hanighen). For this monument, Linx teamed up with Armenian pianist Tigran Hamasyan. A beautiful musical encounter, that of two personalities as strong and brilliant as they are singular and indomitable.
At the beginning of the piece, behind the scat of the Belgian vocalist, a youthful and vibrant voice accompanies the first notes, played on the piano, of the famous theme: that of Tigran Hamasyan. Then the two voices intersect before we come to the theme sung by Linx in a very slow tempo. In the image, restless sleeps, bodies that duplicate themselves, reflections, perhaps, of conflicts, of dualities of the unconscious. In the last minute of the piece, Tigran Hamasyan plays delicate notes on the piano, melancholic motifs from his native Armenia.
A very promising first title while waiting to discover the other duets of the album Be my Guest which will be released on the Cristal Records label. “These duets are a way of continuing to evolve again and again and remind me of my youth, when I rushed on everything I did not know, with a curiosity that is still intact”, David Linx explains in a text accompanying the press release. “This project came to me very naturally like an inventory that calls for itself, a little as if I were going back to school. It is a tribute to transmission, to the spirit of inseparable curiosity and essential to this self-learning. same.”