ARFI - À la Recherche d'un Folklore Imaginaire

LabelCalamity roll in the dark

Calamity roll in the dark

Christian Rollet solo

CC02

"A solo album on drums, why on earth? Probably an intimate necessity, which offers the chance to play music that doesn't have the time to appear in the other groups I participate in, as the timing there is subject to more collective structures.
Designed as an adventure, a solitary, nocturnal, and insomniac reverie, I did not do any re-recording, but rather chose an order of improvised pieces that undoubtedly form a narrative where the interior and the surrounding nature meet in the softness of the dark and silence.
Self-taught, I only had access to clear musical answers when the musical questions—whether technical or otherwise—imposed themselves, and I had to face them. But I was never alone… accompanied by all the diurnal and nocturnal presences that have been part of my life as a drummer, they infused, for my benefit, their living mastery of music and the meaning that each chooses to give it.
Without them, this album would not exist."

Christian Rollet