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Le tissage des rêves: Collaboration Album by Toàn & Francis Gri

I’m very happy to introduce my first collaboration with the French composer Toàn available now in digital and physical format.

When I approach a collaboration, I always feel a mix of curiosity and fear. Working remotely, it’s not easy to communicate your thoughts with your collaborator, and often the risk of misunderstandings or tensions can lead to ruining the simple initial idea of blending your musical worlds together. 
In recent years, I’ve been fortunate to work with people who share the same way of experiencing music, and I must say that this new collaboration with Anthony Elfort is part of this positive trend. “Le tissage des reves” is the first collaboration with the sound of Toàn, whom I got to know by publishing his album Phonolite for Krysalisound in 2022. I consider Anthony one of the most talented musicians I have met so far, with an ability to create musical collages of infinite beauty and extraordinary compositions, and I feel extremely honored to have had the chance to enter his world. 
It’s an album of a dreamy nature that blends electroacoustic, ambient, jazz, and electronic sounds in nine medium-length tracks to accompany the listener to those delicate and suffused territories that only dreams can offer. 
I don’t know if there will be new chapters with Anthony in the future, but for sure, “Le tissage des reves” will remain for a long time among my most successful collaborations.

Release date: June 7, 2024 

– All music by Anthony Elfort and Francis Gri 
– Recorded between Cruguel (FR) and Milan (IT) in 2023-2024 
– Mixing & Mastering: Francis Gri 
– Artwork and design: FG

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Lull

I’m happy to share this little sound miniature called “Lull”

“Lull” is the first in a series of micro-albums that I will release in the future. The main characteristic of these works is to focus the essence of an album into the duration of an EP. Each track will be conceived as small musical haiku, compositional sketches aimed at the search for purity and poetry. I like the idea of ​​working by enhancing the small, the little, and spontaneity, in a world where instead the exact opposite is desperately sought. “Lull” is a dedication to my daughter and her first months of life, when sleeping was still her primary activity. Thanks to anyone who desires to be lulled by this first sound miniature.