Back to Bach Jean Baptiste Loussier
Album info
Album-Release:
2025
HRA-Release:
17.10.2025
Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)
- 1 Seduction 03:20
- 2 Dream 03:46
- 3 Faith 03:26
- 4 Sky 03:20
- 5 Sun & Fun 03:59
- 6 Prelude No. 5 02:40
- 7 Time 03:32
- 8 Dancer 03:25
- 9 Fable 04:28
- 10 Nina 03:27
- 11 Prelude No. 2 03:30
Info for Back to Bach
As often happens, the story begins with Bach at the Loussiers' house.
Jean-Baptiste, one of the sons of the famous French composer Jacques Loussier, began learning the piano, music theory and Johann Sebastian Bach at a very early age.
This same Bach played at home by his father in a trio, in the jazz versions of the famous “Play Bach” albums this time, as if to show him that music had many faces.
And these faces become encounters. Not all teenagers are lucky enough to have a father who built the legendary Miraval studio, where Pink Floyd recorded The Wall next to the kitchen, with Sade swimming laps in the pool, and the Cure recording drums in the orchard when you come home from school...
Whenever he could, he would rush to the studio, keep a low profile in the recording booth, and attend the sessions. Enough to feed himself with his ears full of stars.
Later at the Conservatoire National de Musique de Paris and at the École Normale de Musique de Paris, he would have in his relationship with music this appetite for encounters, the curiosity to discover and explore beyond the score.
Pianos quickly became synthesizers, then keyboards, and then computer keyboards. The creative palette offered by digital systems allowed him to explore multiple facets of composition and production.
He composed the launch music for Chanel's Allure Homme perfume, which was included on CD in GQ magazine in Europe.
He produced several film scores such as the acclaimed Soldier's Star by Christophe de Ponfilly, advertisements for Armani and Fendi, and documentaries such as Sergio Leone: A Legendary America.
He accompanied Dani on several concert dates, and produced with her a stunning cover of Bizet's Carmen. The video was directed by Maïwenn with Laura Smet.
He composed a baroque opera around The Little Match Girl...
And that's how he met Jody Sternberg, a delicate singer, former muse of Morcheeba, who scours jazz concert halls from Paris to Melbourne with her warm voice.
He has already immersed himself in Bach, deciding to give his own contemporary vision, electronic and pop. A tribute to the composer and his father, who become one, a timeless guardian figure. Loussier Replays Bach…
She listens. She then writes lyrics that, once recorded, will give them a new dimension. The Aria has never been so sensual. Bach becomes pop again.
Back to Bach…
Jean Baptiste Loussier, all instruments
Jody Stenberg, vocals (tracks 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9)
David Lewis, additional vocals (track 5)
Pierre Loussier, vocals (track 10)
Jean Baptiste Loussier,vocals (track 10)
Recorded at Studio MUSE33, Paris
Mastered by Fab Costello at La Source Mastering
Jean Baptiste Loussier
studied piano with Pierre Sancan at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris and then at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris with Serge Petitgirard and Madeleine Giraudeau Basset.
At the same time, he attended musical analysis and composition classes.
A graduate in piano, harmony and counterpoint, he is also a winner of the Higher Chamber Music Performance Competition at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris.
A great cinema enthusiast, his attraction to music for images was born the day he composed the theme music for an advertising campaign in England.
He is only 13 years old.
This will be his first experience as a professional musician.
His composition will be accepted and successfully recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra for Akaï…
From 1994, he composed for cinema and television, advertising, theatre and song.
Very attracted to the stage, he frequently plays in concert, in particular with the singer Dani in piano-voice duets.
For her, he produced and directed the album “Variations on Love is a Rebel Bird” (2013).
Today, Jean-Baptiste is also devoting himself to the composition of personal projects that are already well advanced: a musical fairy tale, an album (release planned for October 2025)...
Jody Stenberg
Upon her arrival in France, Australian singer and multi-instrumentalist Jody Sternberg worked alongside various artists, including the all-female brass band Les Pepitas, the Marathonians (A Tropical Soul Adventure), Juan Rozoff (AbalorladaKor!), Arthur H (Négresse Blanche), and Olivier Temime (Streetwise). She toured the world with the English trip-hop band Morcheeba, replacing the band's singer to promote the album "The Antidote," for which she co-wrote the single "Wonders Never Cease." She also participated in projects by Marc Collin, Nouvelle Vague, and Hollywood Mon Amour.
Upon her arrival in France, Australian singer and multi-instrumentalist Jody Sternberg quickly found herself working with an array of Paris-based artists, including the all-female brass band Les Pepitas, the Marathonians (A Tropical Soul Adventure), Juan Rozoff (AbalorladaKor!), Arthur H (Négresse Blanche), and Olivier Temime (Streetwise). She then fronted British trip-hop group Morcheeba on their world tour promoting the album "The Antidote," on which she co-wrote the single "Wonders Never Cease." Jody has also performed with Marc Collin's projects Nouvelle Vague and Hollywood Mon Amour.
Jody Sternberg is a rare bird. The type who has lived through ups and downs and from them has found a unique voice, slightly fragile, terribly sincere.
Jody Sternberg is a rare bird. The type who has lived through ups and downs and from them has found a unique voice, slightly fragile, terribly sincere. (Télérama)
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