Springsong

This new album brings together ten original compositions that once again attest to Maxence Cyrin's penchant for short forms, similar to the pop song, reminiscent of the brevity of Erik Satie.

“My origins are only partly in classical music,” he explains, recalling his career as a partly self-taught musician within pop and electronic music in the 1990s.

Often devoid of any one concept that might prove too stifling, Maxence Cyrin’s albums should be understood as a kind of intimate journal, or a series of short stories which document his day-to-day emotions, as well as the places and landscapes he has gone through.

“With your own music, ultimately you are only talking about yourself, even if you don’t want to convey all your feelings in quite as raw a fashion as you feel them personally,” the artist reveals. “Just like writing, the piano, for me, is a vehicle, a conduit that I use to help me try to channel the sometimes intense emotions that course through me – just in a more serene, softer form. This is why most of the pieces have a single-word title, such as ‘Comet’, ‘Horizon’ or ‘Silence’, which serve as trigger intended to evoke images in the listener’s mind.”