Trained in jazz piano and fond of synths, Mélissa Fortin, member of Bon Enfant, launches a delightful first solo album of original instrumental compositions whose dependence grows with each new listen. It is, at first listen, the soundtrack of a melodrama from the 1980s, with the pure tone of its piano (a change from that of the pianos arranged in neoclassical fashion!) matching those, outdated, of his synths. Past the ostentatious opening, a battery installs a groove on the exciting Septagon, which displays a jazz fusion color in its chord changes; the tempo slows down on the most contemplative Cosmic flowerand returns to romantic and acoustic scenes on Clouds. And so, for eleven compositions, Fortin takes us on a tour — with the help of brilliant friends, Guillaume Éthier, Miles Dupire-Gagnon and Aubert Gendron Marsolais on percussion, Jason Kent on bass, François Lafontaine on keyboards, Emmanuel Éthier on production — in this mixture of jazz-pop-rock-classical with sophisticated melodic phrases.
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