Du cortex à l’iris, a new album recorded for his label Versatile Records, extends the balance that defines Jaumet’s signature: a constant tension between hypnotic abstraction and an almost animal groove. “Reducing the distance between my cortex and my senses in order to compose mental images with sounds,” he says. A desire to make people dance, but with hints of EBM, bursts of cinematic landscapes, and that singular way of slowly installing the trance rather than proclaiming it.
Saxophone, synths, analog drum machines: the arsenal remains familiar, but the approach is more direct. Playing fast, composing in the moment, letting the hand move before thought can intervene. Capturing something primal, spontaneous, almost raw—as if the sound were truly passing, this time, directly from the cortex to the iris.