JAD SALAMEH TRIO : Recording of the 1st album - "We Lunatics Run the Asylum"

RECORDING OF THE FIRST TRIO ALBUM OF JAD SALAMEH We made it this far, but we need your support to go a little further ! Everything is explained in the video Up Above :) For several months, Jad Salameh and his musicians, Arthur Henn on upright bass and Kevin Lucchetti on drums, have been preparing the recording of this album through long studio work sessions (Prado in Paris and the Quai-Son near Fontainebleau). The album was finally recorded and mixed at the Studio de Meudon last April. At this stage of the project we are very proud of what we have accomplished and we lack the funds to be able to press the album and work on its promotion until the release in March 2023. The grants we received from the "Centre National De La Musique" (CNM) and "Société Civile des Producteurs Phonographiques" (SCPP) allowed to get this far. We are quite grateful for their support, however we need yours too to go reach the finish line ! The Trio Jad Salameh Trio proposes jazz music that is transcended by pop incursions through which are built, rebuilt and deconstructed the preconceptions of jazz. The trio plays with our emotions through a piano that is sometimes minimalist and ever- expanding, sometimes raging, washing everything away, all while the drums and the upright bass cement the foundations of Jad Salameh's compositions. At the crossroads of The Bad Plus and E.S.T., Jad Salameh Trio explores the gentle madness of a post-apocalyptique instant. The album “We Lunatics Run The Asylum”, a concept album Note of intention The creation of the album “We Lunatics Run the Asylum” is a means of expressing in music the omnipresent dichotomy in our current state : this state of tugging between a slow madness which settles in our daily life of post-apocalyptic reality and the need to find reason in the escape and refuge of our art. Each composition of the album represents a stage of humanity, illustrating our past, present and possible future, passing through the "passive" observation of our current situation, the denial of it, the point of no return, the regret, the last effort of resistance, abandonment and acceptance. Fragility, beauty, anger, nostalgia and disappointment, we find the chromatic spectrum of our human emotions, illustrated musically and conceptually through each title of the album. The album echoes who I am, as a Lebanese-Canadian citizen residing in France : As a migrant, I am a powerless observer in the face of the dramatic man-made humanitarian, political and economic collapse of my native country and its acceleration exacerbated by the explosion of the Port of Beirut on August 4th, 2020. It allows me to take back the narrative of an unbearable story and to create an outlet for this bit of madness which is slowly settling deep inside me. Jad Salameh Growing up in Beirut, the piano was omnipresent in Jad Salameh’s early life. Whether listening to his father’s Lebanese folk songs at night, hiding his favorite toys in the underbelly of the instrument, he developed a deep connection with the piano that became a central part of his life. At the age of 17, Jad moved to Montreal to study molecular biology and eventually fell in love with jazz. Since then, the music has been both thoughtful and exploratory, introverted and explosive. Along the way, he meets Tigran Hamasyan, Racha Rizk, Aaron Parks, Baptiste Trotignon and finds his own way through trio and solo projects. Now based in Paris, Jad has performed at prestigious events in France, including Jazz à la Villette, Jazzycolors Festival or at Sunside in Paris and has shared the stage and studio with other brilliant artists. https://www.jadsalameh.com/