{"product_id":"chassol-reich-chassol-cd","title":"Chassol - Reich Chassol (CD) PREORDER","description":"\u003ch1\u003eEnsemble Miroirs Étendus pairs Steve Reich's City Life with Christophe Chassol's new Paris Noir: two cities, two composers, one shared portrait.\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003cp\u003eAt the crossroads of jazz and classical music, Ensemble Miroirs Étendus stages a dialogue between Steve Reich, the founding figure of musical minimalism, and the restless mind of Christophe Chassol. In echo of City Life - Reich's 1995 landmark, a musical reportage built from the sampled sounds of Manhattan: engines, horns, brakes, alarms - the Ensemble invited Chassol, a devotee of captured voices, birdsong and street noise, to turn the same lens on the city of his everyday life: Paris. The result, Paris Noir, sits alongside City Life as two sound-portraits of restless, changing cities, joined by a shared social conscience and an appetite for music that speaks to its moment. Born in New York in 1936, Reich is one of the pioneers of musical minimalism; his early work is often described as 'phasing music', after his signature technique of phase-shifting, before his writing turned toward rhythm, pulse and multimedia composition. City Life, for ensemble and samplers, marked a technological turn - two keyboardists trigger sampled fragments of speech and urban noise live within the piece. Christophe Chassol is a French composer, director and musician known for a singular method he calls the 'ultrascore' - filming and recording speech and everyday sound, then composing music around it. His journeys have taken him to the United States, India, Martinique and Japan; his fifth album, Funny How?, was released in May 2026. He has collaborated with Frank Ocean, Solange, Sébastien Tellier and visual artists Sophie Calle and Xavier Veilhan. Ensemble Miroirs Étendus, based in the Hauts-de-France region and directed by violinist Fiona Monbet, is devoted to the music of today, moving between the written and the improvised, the acoustic and the electronic. On stage, Chassol brings his own musical alchemy to a luminous concert punctuated by a piece from his album Big Sun, Reich \u0026amp; Darwin - a personal tribute to the composer who first sparked his fascination with repetitive music.\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003ch2\u003eTrack Listing\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cul\u003e        \u003cli\u003eCity Life I – Check it out\u003c\/li\u003e                  \u003cli\u003eCity Life II – Pile driver – Alarms\u003c\/li\u003e                  \u003cli\u003eCity Life III – It's been a honeymoon – Can't take no mo'\u003c\/li\u003e                  \u003cli\u003eCity Life IV – Heartbeats – Boats \u0026amp; buoys\u003c\/li\u003e                  \u003cli\u003eCity Life V – Heavy smoke\u003c\/li\u003e                  \u003cli\u003eParis Noir I – Présentation Répétition\u003c\/li\u003e                  \u003cli\u003eParis Noir II – Césaire raconte Sib\u003c\/li\u003e                  \u003cli\u003eParis Noir III – Himes, Baldwin, Wright\u003c\/li\u003e                  \u003cli\u003eParis Noir IV – Césaire raconte Do\u003c\/li\u003e                  \u003cli\u003eParis Noir V – Sorbonne\u003c\/li\u003e                  \u003cli\u003eParis Noir VI – Césaire raconte\u003c\/li\u003e                  \u003cli\u003eParis Noir VII – Césaire raconte zeuhl\u003c\/li\u003e                  \u003cli\u003eParis Noir VIII – Rubato\u003c\/li\u003e                  \u003cli\u003eParis Noir IX – Le Paris Noir contemporain\u003c\/li\u003e          \u003c\/ul\u003e  \u003ch2\u003eAdditional Details\u003c\/h2\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLabel:\u003c\/strong\u003e Matière Noire\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGenre:\u003c\/strong\u003e Jazz\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e English  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRun Time:\u003c\/strong\u003e 47 mins\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRegion:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0       \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e 12\/11\/26\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUPC:\u003c\/strong\u003e 3521383506981\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"LAUTRE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67337404317945,"sku":"MN001","price":11.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0815\/4889\/files\/MN001.jpg?v=1791735132","url":"https:\/\/mvdshop.com\/products\/chassol-reich-chassol-cd","provider":"MVD Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}