Bright red tones. On stage, an ethereal piano. The silence. The sound reddens. Slowly. Soft whispers. An airy Voice without words. Without sentences. A voice that targets a pure emotional state.

"When a musician talks about his work it's always delicate but necessary. Necessary because it involves choice and artistic preferences which are not clearly recognisable from a few extracts. My music is meant to be purified, naked, intimate, on the basis only of a piano and a voice.

Is it introversion of classical music? Or rather physical expressiveness more rock or even contemporary? I do not know. I only aim to show resonant and raw emotion, literally meaningless. As a result, I sing with no text, no sentences, no words. Everything here is pure sensation. That is my pleasure, with the hope it can be yours."

Guitarist by trade, Rougge first performed in different pop-rock bands before discovering that the piano was in fact to be his instrument. This revelation, which took him to Britain, was without doubt the crucial turning point which made his music sound the way it does today. His voice and his instrument from then on focused on each other and are never going to stop creating and influencing each other. The singing lost any other meaning in order to rediscover the simple pleasure of instrumental improvisations. No texts, sentences nor words. From then on only the emotion produced by the raw sound mattered. The piano part is destructurised, it looks for the murmur, the breath, the cry which this deeply moving voice suggests. From this duality, this particular innovative, supernatural and captivating music was born.

Is it introversion of classical music? Or physical expressiveness more rock or even contemporary? Everyone needs to make up their own mind. His first album Fragments recorded and mixed both in France and England certainly carries his own identity, one which should be discovered.

1. Fragment 1
2. Fragment 2
3. Fragment 3
4. Fragment 4
5. Fragment 5
6. Fragment 6
7. Fragment 7
8. Fragment 8
9. Fragment 9
10. Fragment 10
11. Fragment 11

Listen to: the entire album.

Release date: 10/30/2011
Rougge lives in Nancy France

Tagged as: Classical, Vocal, Neoclassical, Contemporary Piano, Daydreaming, Improvisation, World Influenced

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