Pianist and singer of Madeleine et Salomon, pianist of Malia, composer of the music of Baya Kasmi's latest film Youssef Salem has success (with Ramzy Bedia), Alexandre SAADA is a free mind musician who claims not to belong to a single style. He releases YELLOW HORSES, a pop song album reminiscent of Feist, Sufjan Stevens, Lhasa, and even Leonard Cohen.
“In this new album, I tell successful or failed love stories, I tell how sometimes we can put others before ourselves, I evoke the ecological emergency and the complexity of a world in which sometimes it's hard not to get lost. I do get lost quiet often.
My music is like a plant that grows very quickly in a thousand directions at once, with dense foliage. In this frantic race sometimes a bud appears. If you stop and watch it grow, you can see a song blooming. »
Alexandre Saada started playing the piano around the age of 4 and a half. After ten years of solid classical training at the Avignon Conservatory (south of France), Alexandre discovered rock, pop and jazz. Arriving in Paris at the age of 20, the pianist began his career as a jazz pianist and composer, accompanying numerous artists and self-producing several albums as a leader. Twenty-five years of a professional career punctuated by meetings with exceptionals artists and touring all over the world have opened and shaped the musical personality of the pianist.
Alongside this role of sideman and composer, Alexandre Saada resumes his exploration of classical and contemporary music with Alicia Roque Alsina and with the Argentinian pianist and composer Carlos Roque Alsina. Crucial meeting at a time when Alexandre is turning more and more towards improvisation. 2010 marks a turning point in the pianist's career. He embarked on a series of records of improvised solo piano music, exploring a more personal and introspective language.
At that time, Alexandre began to accompany Malia (they signed several albums together, including a tribute to Nina Simone who won the Echo Award for best vocal jazz album in Berlin). He joined the team of Motown label icon Martha and the Vandellas for ten years of touring around the world. Then came the creation of the duo Madeleine and Salomon and the composition of music for films, documentaries and theater plays.
In response to the Bataclan attacks, in 2015 the pianist initiated the We Free project, a series of concerts aimed at creating meetings and dialogue between people through improvised music concerts. What followed was the album We Free and numerous concerts (Bakas from Congo, Innu from Canada, Israeli desert, ruins of Detroit, Sarajevo, Belgrade and the Le Monde newspaper festival at the National French Library). This project received support from UNESCO in 2019.
Rich in these experiences, Alexandre Saada began writing songs in 2020, thus reconnecting with his first loves (rock and pop) and in order to approach music from a new angle. If improvisation is the very expression of movement, songwriting is, for the pianist, close to the patient and meticulous work of the craftsman. These two approaches feed off each other. YELLOW HORSES is a new step on this unique path.
