Cortex

𝘾𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙚𝙭’𝙨 𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝟭𝟵𝟳𝟵 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙠𝙨, 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙖 𝙗𝙖𝙧𝙣-𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙞𝙤 𝙣𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙋𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙨, 𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙮𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙨 𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧—𝙛𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙚𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙨𝙖𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙮 𝘿𝙖𝙢𝙨𝙤 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙒𝙪-𝙏𝙖𝙣𝙜.

In 1977, it was love at first sight when Mireille and I bought a long 18th-century farmhouse in a remote hamlet in the Seine-et-Marne department called Noisement.
The barn, with its majestic secular exposed beams, became an original recording studio where Alain Gandolfi settled behind the console.
Free of any contractual obligations, between two advertising commissions, a regular jazz program on a Radio France FM station, and the recording of jingles and a few albums by neighboring musician friends such as Siegfried Kessler, Rosalie Dubois and Claude Giacomi, we recorded some twenty CORTEX tracks here, which would remain unreleased long after our separation in 1981.