7th October 2013: Romain Pilon’s ‘Colorfield’ Worldwide Release Day!!!

Congratulations to Romain Pilon for his worldwide release of Colorfield which is now available to purchase from the WWR Store as a physical CD and downloadable MP3 as well as all good record stores and online retail shops. 

Colorfield is the debut WWR release from Paris-based guitarist Romain Pilon, one of France’s most gifted and lauded contemporary artists. The album builds off the international success he gained from his first solo release NY3 (which features bassist Matt Brewer and drummer Colin Stranahan) and continues his development as both a virtuosic performer and composer of considerable note and conceptual purity. Colorfield also sees him at the helm of an exciting all-star cast in Walter Smith III on tenor saxophone, bassist Michael Janisch and drummer Jamire Williams. The program consists of seven beautifully crafted original compositions and a reworking of Horace Silver’s mystical ‘Lonely Woman.’ Throughout the album Pilon shines with an assured confidence of a seasoned veteran, while demonstrating his fleeting fretwork and notoriously infectious guitar tone.

One of the main influences for Pilon’s compositional approach on this album was the style of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s known simply as ‘Color Field Painting.’ Inspired by European Modernism and closely related to Abstract Expressionism, Color Field is characterized primarily by large fields of flat, solid color spread across or stained into the canvas, creating areas of unbroken surface and a flat picture plane. The movement places less emphasis on gesture, brushstrokes and action in favor of an overall consistency of form and process. Color is therefore freed from objective context and becomes the subject in itself. This visual influence is clearly evident in the overall vibe and sound palette on Colorfield, as if his compositions themselves are audible paintings, where lush, drawn out harmonies and driving ostinatos become the focal point as much as their complimenting melodies.

 To purchase the new release please head to the album page.