jean-luc fafchamps: back to...

For me, to write for the piano, the instrument that led me to a career in music, is always to 'get back to' something: back to my first musical feelings, but also my first writing techniques, which were quite remote from my current aesthetical concerns. Back to the music pieces engrained in my fingers through practice; finally, back to the numerous hours of free improvisation of my lazy youth. In my case, the piano, this old buddy of mine, is not the medium through which I hoped to shine in front of other people. It is the tool I keep using to meet the music of my mentors and the music of my peers. Therefore, in essence, these Back To... are works about memory." --Jean-Luc Fafchamps