Bleue Quintet Paul Colomb

• 1Colomb: Introduction02:33
• 2Colomb: Lindar02:59
• 3Colomb: Bangalore04:13
• 4Colomb: Beloved03:38
• 5Colomb: Outback04:33
• 6Colomb: Grassland03:53
• 7Colomb: Steppe03:43
• 8Colomb: Mirage04:18
• 9Colomb: Bleue04:09
• 10Colomb: Lowland03:42
• 11Colomb: Punk II03:28
• 12Colomb: Punk03:14
• 13Colomb: R.E.M04:14
• 14Colomb: Berceuse02:21
• Total Runtime50:58

Info for Bleue Quintet

“Ten years ago, when returning from a musical journey through India, I bought my first effect pedal and improvised a long piece for cello and electronics.

I never suspected then that my first melody, ‘Bangalore’, would be on the present record, today, ten years later, performed, on top of it, by cellists of rare generosity.

In 2018, I decided to call on Grégoire Vaillant, an exceptionally creative electronica composer and producer. This is the kind of music in which the cello is stressed to totally unheard sound spheres, becoming edm matter, synth pads and beatbox.

It was almost by accident that the ‘Bleue Quintet’ was born, while in the second lockdown, on the set of the documentary film « Et le violoncelle dans tout ça ? [So where exactly does the cello stand?]». We played « Bleue » together, which marked the beginning of a story of friendship and trust, in the company of such wonderful performers willing to follow me in the long creative process that combines my classical roots with my practice of current and electronic music forms.

As a 13-year old child and a movie-fan, I was first planning to move towards cinema. So it cannot be due to chance if some among you feel they hear ‘film score’ music in this album.” (Paul Colomb)

Paul Colomb, cello

Paul Colomb
evolves at the crossroads of chamber music, jazz and contemporary music.

He grew up on the Atlantic coast, between the small medieval town of Guérande and the industrial port of Saint-Nazaire. It's a setting that reflects his daily life, which he divides between studying chamber music and the rock scene.

His studies took him to Nantes and then to the Haute Ecole de Musique in Lausanne, where he studied with François Salque.

He was awarded the Prix du Public at the 2019 Icarts Sessions, in the programme Ocora couleurs du Monde on France Musique.

His first album, Bleue Quintet, will be released in January 2024, and brings together 5 cellists (Justine Metral, Frédéric Deville, Paul Colomb, Michèle Pierre and Louis Rodde). I blends a melodic narrative inspired by the chamber repertoire with the Berlin sounds of techno and ambient. It plunges listeners into a world of timeless themes, ethereal climates and hypnotic rhythmic frescoes. His first EP, Bleue, will be released in 2021.

Paul co-founded the Duo Brady with cellist Michèle Pierre. Their first album, Plaines, came out in 2020, and their second, La vie d'après, inspired by possible futures, in 2023. During the second containment period, the Brady Duo made the documentary Et le violoncelle dans tout ça (What about the cello?), a collection of testimonies from cellists affected by the health crisis. The film was covered by Telerama, France Musique, Europe 1, Mediapart, etc.The Brady Duo was a finalist in Jazz Migration 2021.Paul Colomb is a member of the trio [Elles] with Sandra Nkaké and Jî Drû, as well as Daniel Mille's quintet, with whom he accompanies Jean-Louis Trintignant. The Trintignant/Mille/Piazzola album won the Grand Prix de l'Académie Charles Cros. He regularly collaborates with François Salque's Orchestre de Violoncelles and has performed and recorded with Diego Imbert, André Ceccarelli, Murcof, Hélène Bohy, Form, Miroirs Etendus, Sophie Alour, Tribe From The Ashes, New, la Comédie Musicale Improvisée, Mathias Duplessy... Paul Colomb tours the four continents and teaches, notably at the Bangalore School of Music in India in 2012. He regularly performs - alongside Concerts de Poche - for audiences far removed from concert halls: EPHAD, prisons, psychiatric hospitals, schools, asylum seekers' centres, etc.

Booklet for Bleue Quintet