The duo was born in the summer of 2020 duringan improvised concert at the last minute, on the island of Paros in Greece, crystallizing the desire to make music for an audience hungry for sounds and vibrations. The magic immediately worked and convinced them to continue this duetand thus to consider this common album project.
Lynn and Marc decided to record their duet during the winter of 2021. From the outset they wanted to name the album “Nearness”, which means proximity, in this climate of confinement and isolation that we lived then, where we had the feeling of moving away little by little from each other.
In order to enrich this duet on some titles of the album, Lynn and Marc have invited other musicians : Jasser Haj Youssef on the viola d’amore, Rishab Prasanna on the bansouri flute and Mosin Kawa on the tablas, as well as the male choir Antifoniko Melos, one of the most renowned Byzantine choirs in Greece.
For this album, Lynn and Marc have set themselves multiple goals : be close to each other, touch the soul, enlarge the space… The voice and the bass combine, orient and jazz speak to each other.
From personal compositions sung in Arabic, Syriac and Greek with the Byzantine choir Antifoniko Melos, to two covers by Joni Mitchell and Radiohead, and two jazz standards sung in Arabic and English, the album ends with a composition by Lynn Adib sung in French.