Pierre Jacquot and his team have been my studio recording and mastering partners since the album DARK at KOKA MEDIA/UNIVERSAL, in 2003.
Since then, we have continued to deepen a relationship that goes beyond professionalism to be nourished by a common research.
I am passionate about sound, since my beginnings this dimension is part of my writing. Pierre is in this field an outstanding midwife.
For the recording of BLUE SONGS, for example, I was looking for a truly original sound that would best reflect these intimate ballads, while being truly immersed in the piano sound. Pierre responded by removing the cover and placing three beautiful Neumann microphones over the soundboard in a “Decca Tree” fashion. The result is really out of this world.
I really like the dialogue we have – on each project we look together for the best option.
With their project “Offtrax” Pierre and Olivier are betting on the future: the image has made its technical revolution, the sound is in the process. A new sound is to be invented, which magnifies the reliefs of the material, and Pierre Jacquot and his accomplice are already on the road to this invention. The presence and the depth that they have obtained in the recording of my Tombeau de Gesualdo for counter-tenor and twelve mixed voices (Musicatreize) are quite astonishing.