FONTAMAR CONSORT

RAMOUR

For four centuries, a consort has been the name given to a small number of exceptional musicians who have decided to share the same fate. The same path. The same music.
Fontamar Consort productions are born of songs composed by author and pianist Jean Fontamar for the voice of Laurianne Langevin, his partner.

Having lived and worked in Italy for almost twenty years, the two French artists have brought these songs to life in close contact with some of the finest representatives of the Italian jazz and electro scene, including double bassist Marco Bardoscia, guitarist Valerio Daniele, percussionist Vito de Lorenzi and saxophonist Roberto Gagliardi.

A common thread also unites these six musicians: the figure of Paolo Fresu. The great trumpeter has not only left his mark on recent musical history as an instrumentalist. For the past fifteen years, he has also made his mark as a producer. After participating in the recording of several tracks on Ramour, Fontamar Consort's first album, his record label, Tǔk Music, became the producer.

"A gift... Like a "void" in the midst of the overflow in which we seem condemned to live. I stopped to listen to Ramour. Then I took the time to listen again. Because the passage of time had become beautiful. It was a luxury.”
Claudia Fayenz, Rai music columnist.

"With Ramour, Fontamar Consort has produced a kind of suspended enchantment."
Fabrizio Versienti, Corriere del Mezzogiorno.

"Fontamar Consort has given birth to an album full of grace, the kind that makes you fall in love with music all over again. Ramour is both precise in every detail and bursting with life."
Giuseppe Ceccato, tg com.

"Ramour is half an hour of emotionally intense music."
Ivo Franchi, Jazz Magazine.

"Ramour is a whispered sound, sung as if thought were tiptoeing through it."
Paolo Fresu, musician.

"Ramour, the latest album from Jean Fontamar and Laurianne Langevin, is now available, and once again demonstrates the duo's ability to reinvent jazz, with the help of the extraordinary musicians who have joined the Consort."
Il Cittadino.

"In a happy union of French chanson and jazz, where the two worlds coexist to perfection, Fontamar Consort's Ramour is a refined exploration, full of charm and elegance, of all the facets of love, in which everything becomes poetry."
Giacomo Baroni, Giornale di Brescia.

RAMOUR

Ramour... Relove... 9 love songs, from the harshest to the clearest, whose unique timbre makes them immediately identifiable.
Released on January 24, 2025, the album was presented to a standing ovation at Brescia's Teatro Grande on February 5.

01 Perdue 3.54

02 En Somme 3.20

03 Ravage 3.27

04 Honfleur 2.49

05 Monsieur 2.36

06 Paupières 5.12

07 Le Bout du port 2.44

08 La Mer 3.12

09 Le Faon 3.26

All tracks written and composed by Jean Fontamar
All tracks published by Tŭk Music.

Jean Fontamar piano

Laurianne Langevin vocals