Athome – A return to the roots, an invitation to journey inward, a need to reconnect with the self and to share that connection.
Athome – A return to the roots, an invitation to journey inward, a need to reconnect with the self and to share that connection.
Trained in jazz and improvised music, Alexandre Millet has spent the past fifteen years collaborating with artists such as Oumou Sangaré, Gaël Faye, Mai Lan, and Madjo. With Athome, he steps forward as a composer and lead musician in his own right. With honesty and sensitivity, he offers a deeply personal odyssey at the crossroads of jazz, pop, and world music.
“In 2019, a vital impulse led me deep into the Amazon jungle, where I sought healing from Peruvian shamans. That journey took me to the very depths of my being, to the discovery of my essence – the atom.
In March 2020, almost exactly one year after returning from Peru, we found ourselves in lockdown. All of us, ‘at home’. It was a time of intense emotion that opened up a new space for creation.
The eleven tracks on this album speak to trauma, heritage, intergenerational memory, and the loved ones we’ve lost. Our lives are shaped by these inheritances – some we long to break free from, others we wish to live with peacefully.
Athome is the expression of all this legacy – everything that makes us who we are.
Athome is the outward expression of what I discovered within.”
In collaboration with the Festival JazzContreBand and Jazz Sur La Plage Festival.
