This 6th album is a series of jazz-ish improvisations recorder in the last month (except a couple piano pieces), in the sense nothing was planned, I just improvised each part in a first take. An exercise I'm not really used to.
Those first takes were less than drafts, with many hesitation, notes that shouldn’t be there, various imperfections. Instead of rewriting, re recording and correcting everything, I just did a few rehearsals before recording a second take. Still far from perfect, but it sounds cleaner while keeping the spontaneity of each music.
This is not background music or easy listening.
The drafts are on my Youtube channel.
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This album is the map of a creative mind in motion, drawn in real time. "Second Takes, 11 Steps to Madness" documents a deliberate exercise in spontaneous combustion: a series of jazz-inflected improvisations where the first, raw take was not a draft to be discarded but a truth to be clarified.
Each piece began as an unplanned spark: a melody, a rhythm, a feeling captured in a single, imperfect take. The hesitations and the "wrong" notes were left intact. Instead of erasing them, the process was to understand their energy, to rehearse that initial chaos, and then to step back to the microphone for a second pass. The goal was not clinical perfection, but a cleaner translation of that original, impulsive idea: a way to keep the frantic heartbeat of the first thought while letting the muscle memory of the hands catch up.
From the subterranean echoes of "Leaving the Sewers" to the disquieting lullaby of "Spiders Singing in My Head," these eleven steps trace a path through a landscape of industrial acoustic jazz. Detuned pianos, restless samples, and unwavering bass lines build an atmosphere that is immersive, unsettling, and deeply human in its embrace of creative risk. This is not background music. It is a front-row seat to the moment where instinct meets intent, and where the road to a peculiar kind of madness is paved with second chances.
