Hi friends,
Following the communication from the Luxembourgish Government announcing the ban of all events/ activities with more than 100 attendees on Luxembourg territory until December 31st 2020, Chassol’s show, initially scheduled to take place at Opderschmelz on November 21st 2020, has had to be cancelled.
Unfortunately, there is no replacement date at this time.
Refunds are available at the point of purchase.
Together with the artist, we very much regret the cancellation and we thank you for your understanding!
Kind regards,
The A-Team
Presale can be found under this link : https://www.atelier.lu/shows/chassol/
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Bio
Born in 1976, Chassol discovered music at the age of four. Son of an amateursaxophonist father, this “black kid” joined the Conservatory as others join the army. He would spend sixteen years there, starting out by learning harmony, scales, and melody as essential illumination for what would follow. Traumatized at a very tender age by the soundtrack for the film The Towering Inferno, the young Chassol quickly understood that he would not release his first album at 20. No, indeed. His initial ambition was to compose for the cinema, covertly uniting sound and image in order to produce movie music of great elegance in the tradition of Jerry Goldsmith, Michel Magne, and Quincy Jones, among others. In the mid-1990s, Chassol practically disappeared. He headed for darkly-lit movie houses with immediate boarding for fifteen years of composition for the big screen, television, and advertising. Between advertising jingles, Chassol found the time to become an orchestra conductor from 1994 to 2002 and then discovered the world of pop music while accompanying Phoenix and Sébastien Tellier on Politics (2004), for which the young double of Jean-Michel Basquiat did most of the arrangements. One of the quirks of such shifts is the confusion they create between the avant-garde and one’s own ambition. “I am a musician who makes serious and accessible music in a pop-music format,” Chassol says in order to pull himself out of ghetto niche markets, where so many others bask. As much a disciple of the Minimalist school of music (Steve Reich, John Adams) as he is a passionate enthusiast for pop culture, this Parisian loves to wander off the beaten path, as is shown by his “ultrascores” (“absolute film music” composed on the basis of a film’s sonic elements) for Nola Chérie (the latter of which accompanies this first record “X-Pianos” as a DVD supplement), Indiamore (his second DVD/CD project) or the coming Big Sun (third and final part of the trilogy coming in 2015).
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