Bruno Chevillon (double bass)

Recorded over two days in the Lutheran church of Bon Secours in Paris, États de lieux finds Bruno Chevillon in dialogue with a space — the resonance of old stone, the hum of the city outside, the physics of a double bass pushed hard against silence. It is only his second solo album in four decades of playing, and it arrives with the quiet authority of someone who rarely speaks alone but knows exactly what he wants to say. The church is a full participant here: sounds boom, circle back, and dissolve in ways no studio could replicate. Spontaneous and cohesive, abstract and deeply felt, États de lieux is a record that trusts the listener to follow it wherever the room leads.