LUSSIER, RENE: Au Diable Vert

For René Lussier, le diable vert is “a withdrawn place where Nature has kept or regained its rights; a place where you find yourself lost without really knowing when exactly you lost your bearings. I suppose this definition could also apply to my music. I would add a dimension of freedom: the joy of moving forward blindly and holding on until the end of the journey.”
The project started with new compositions for the guitarist’s quintet, with accordion, tuba, two drums and more, featuring Luzio Altobelli, Julie Houle, Robbie Kuster and Marton Maderspach. And then the pandemic struck and nothing went as planned.
Lussier says, “As the months of digital correspondence went by, the lineup changed to include new players: Guillaume Bourque and Alain Trudel. I also invited Koichi Makigami and Takashi Harada with whom the quintet had played in Tokyo, asked my friend Chris Cutler to read me one of his poems on the state of the world, recorded the musicians’ voices the first time we met in the studio in 15 months, my therapist’s and my own voices at our 13th session, the purr of the wandering tomcat coming to ask for kibble, and the bewitching songs of frogs when spring finally this remote place I call home.

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