Fred Pallem’s road movie & The Rite of the Tympanum

The adventure is long and beautiful, strewn with multiple caustic stories. Led by composer and multi-instrumentalist Fred Pallem, it has never been repeated. At the same time complex, fluid and joyful, the retro-futuristic orchestra’s sound and cinematographic crossing takes us happily between popular and scholarly music, between jazz, folk, pop, rock, funk and groove.

The tenth album of Fred Pallem & Le Sacre du Tympanum, named “X” has been conceived, specifies a press release, “ with a stubborn resistance to the desire to do less well, with fewer people “. It is therefore no less than twenty-five instrumentalists who perpetuate the singular history of a group with variable geometry whose mission is to restore its letters of nobility to great orchestral music but with humor and lightness. We revel in the clip and the title L’Amour du Disque, “Major chords on a punchy and positive melody to express the joy of conceiving a new album for Le Sacre du Tympan. A piece that is in itself a kind of carefree fiesta where you imagine yourself “running naked on a beach to go for a dip in a lagoon!” said Fred Pallem.

After, SoundTrax which paid homage to the great composers of the 1960s, revisits to the repertoires of François de Roubaix, blaxploitation soundtracks, cartoon credits or even The Odyssey started in 2018, the album x, recorded and mixed at the Juno studio by Bertrand Fresel (except for the strings captured at the legendary Ferber studio) is even more flamboyant than the previous ones, because ” each title is like a potential tube, each instrument has its theme, its gimmick ” and ” where all the compositions are inspired by very personal facts, where each solo is carried by stories and emotions “.

release concert Xon December 6 at the Café de la Danse in Paris