Photons @ Blues'n'Jazz Rallye

One night, the basses hit you in the gut, rattle your bones, creep up your spine, and unsettle your brains until they finally give in – that’s the sort of trance electronic music can produce. For Gauthier Toux, the revelation came one evening in 2016 at a club in Lausanne officiated by a techno DJ. A classically-trained pianist, then an adept of cerebral jazz, he was struck physically by the synthetic sounds and the pace of the machines, to the extent that the experience fractured the whole edifice he had built up as as an academic instrumentalist. And that’s how the Photons project began.

Photons embrace it all, from IDM, intelligent dance music, intended for home listening, to tech-house, to be experienced in the clubs, while respecting the markers of electronic music, with a strongly contrasting production at the mixing stage. The performance is astonishing, coming from an organic quartet, adding to its array of talents jazz improvisation, guiding the solos and collective digressions.

Artists

• Gauthier Toux - keyboards
• Giani Caserotto - guitar
• Samuel F’hima - double bass
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• Julien Loutelier - drums

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