Between the release of "Heritage", his previous album and today, 10 years have passed just interspersed with the release of an EP ("EPilogue" in 2016) and remixes of the SHAZZer Project produced with his long time partner Jean-Marie K! There is no doubt that Shazz has the art of kindling desire. He’s finally back with his 5th studio album recorded "at home", in Normandy, just like when he started off.
For Shazz it all began in 1992 with Fnac Music Dance division then with F.Communications and the historical epic of what we will later call the French Touch. Despite his collaborations with Laurent Garnier or Ludovic Navarre and his various more personal projects, Shazz has always stayed in the periphery, beyond the commercial limits of the genre.
Eclectic, open to all genres of electronic music, Shazz has always known how to take us into his melancholic universe.
His new solo album "Transition To Disorder", conceived as a global sound work, is a real return to the sources of Shazz's first productions but remains paradoxically well anchored in the current era. Mastered by Chab (Grammy Awards for “Random Access Memory”), TTD is a true electronic music producer album without the usual concessions imposed by the record industry. With powerful, almost physical songs, such as "My Love" or "Our Kingdom", boosted by sequences of techno-influenced synthesizers, alternates the soft down-tempo tracks like "Ondulatoires", "Nexus", “My Baby” or "Ryuichi", through the deep vibing “Yeah! " or the dreamlike and hypnotic side of "Drive", “The Line” or "Voyage".
Order and disorder follow each other in this album in a subtle balancing act between strength and serenity. "Transition To Disorder" immerses us in a retro-future idealized universe tinged with a hint of pop that makes Shazz's music so unique and recognizable. And in this transitioning world, facing an uncertain future, tempted by withdrawal into oneself and fear of the other, with "We Are One" Shazz reminds us that music knows no frontiers since it connects us all to one other.
For Shazz it all began in 1992 with Fnac Music Dance division then with F.Communications and the historical epic of what we will later call the French Touch. Despite his collaborations with Laurent Garnier or Ludovic Navarre and his various more personal projects, Shazz has always stayed in the periphery, beyond the commercial limits of the genre.
Eclectic, open to all genres of electronic music, Shazz has always known how to take us into his melancholic universe.
His new solo album "Transition To Disorder", conceived as a global sound work, is a real return to the sources of Shazz's first productions but remains paradoxically well anchored in the current era. Mastered by Chab (Grammy Awards for “Random Access Memory”), TTD is a true electronic music producer album without the usual concessions imposed by the record industry. With powerful, almost physical songs, such as "My Love" or "Our Kingdom", boosted by sequences of techno-influenced synthesizers, alternates the soft down-tempo tracks like "Ondulatoires", "Nexus", “My Baby” or "Ryuichi", through the deep vibing “Yeah! " or the dreamlike and hypnotic side of "Drive", “The Line” or "Voyage".
Order and disorder follow each other in this album in a subtle balancing act between strength and serenity. "Transition To Disorder" immerses us in a retro-future idealized universe tinged with a hint of pop that makes Shazz's music so unique and recognizable. And in this transitioning world, facing an uncertain future, tempted by withdrawal into oneself and fear of the other, with "We Are One" Shazz reminds us that music knows no frontiers since it connects us all to one other.
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