Une Maison avec un Piano Dedans

This is not a ‘piano solo’. Anything but that! Babx has far too much respect for real pianists who have been wearing out their knuckles for hours and years trying to squeeze every combination out of this great black killer whale. None of that, in his case. The great killer whale is part of the family. Like the family dog. It is this intimacy with the music that he wanted to capture on this record. Like a bootleg recording. He didn’t have any score to settle with the pianist he is or, more importantly, the pianist he is not. Playing the piano is what he does. The kind of thing you do every day without even realising it. Just as a pizza maker prepares his dough or a bricklayer his cement, he plays the piano. But he doesn’t play at being a pianist. These gestures come from far away. They are passed on to us, imitated and become our own. The whole history of so-called “traditional music starts with that. Babx history, too.