ANATOLE MUSTER

“A FEW SONGS IN… SO AWESOME! THE ALBUM SOUNDS GREAT.” – LOUIS COLE “HIS EFFERVESCENT PLAYING REALLY SHINES.” – JAZZWISE “HE KNOWS HOW TO COMMUNICATE JOY.” – UK JAZZ NEWS ANATOLE MUSTER IS IN THE PROCESS OF RE-DEFINING WHAT THE ACCORDION CAN DO, AND IS ACTIVELY BRINGING THE INSTRUMENT TO A WIDER AUDIENCE. THE MOST OBVIOUS SIGN OF THAT DESIRE TO EXPERIMENT AND INNOVATE IS WHAT AUDIENCES SEE AT HIS LIVE SHOWS: HE PLAYS NOT JUST THE TRADITIONAL BUTTON ACCORDION, BUT ALSO TWO ADDITIONAL INSTRUMENTS: A LAPTOP KEYBOARD, AND MIDI-CONTROLLED “BREATHALYZER” SYNTH, A BRAND NEW INVENTION THAT HE HAS CO-DEVELOPED WITH ENGINEER ELIO FISTAROL. HE IS ALSO BUILDING A GLOBAL NETWORK OF CLOSE COLLABORATORS WITH A WIDE RANGE OF MUSICAL LEANINGS, FROM LA HEAVYWEIGHTS KIEFER AND LOUIS COLE TO TENNYSON FROM CANADA AND MATTHEW FIELD (BEATENBERG, M FIELD) FROM SOUTH AFRICA, WHILE ALSO KEEPING A FOOT IN JAZZ AND FUSION THROUGH LEADING BASSISTS SUCH AS HADRIEN FERAUD FROM FRANCE AND FEDERICO HELIODORO FROM BRAZIL. MANY OF THESE IMPORTANT AND FORMATIVE CONNECTIONS HAVE COME FROM MEETING PEOPLE VIA INSTAGRAM MESSAGING, AND THEN DISCOVERING AND GRADUALLY DEVELOPING SHARED MUSICAL ENTHUSIASMS – “INTERNET CULTURE SHAPED ME,” SAYS ANATOLE MUSTER. HIS TWO ALBUMS HAVE SEEN A RAPID PROGRESSION AND A STRENGTHENING OF HIS MUSICAL IDENTITY: AFTER THE RELEASE OF “WONDERFUL NOW” IN EARLY 2024, MUSTER FOUND THAT IT WAS THE SECTIONS WHERE HE HAD BEEN BOLDEST IN EXPERIMENTING THAT RECEIVED THE MOST ENTHUSIASTIC RESPONSES, WHICH ENCOURAGED HIM TO GO FOR “THE SOUND I REALLY WANT TO HEAR”. SO THE 2025 ALBUM ‘HOPECORE’ IS A VERITABLE TOUR DE FORCE. HE SKATES EFFORTLESSLY THROUGH HYPERPOP, 80S JAZZ FUSION, MIDWEST EMO, PLUGG, BRAZILIAN JAZZ…AND YET THE STYLE, THE VIBE WHICH EMERGES – UPLIFTING, OPTIMISTIC, MAKING LIGHT OF COMPLEXITY – IS UNMISTAKABLY ANATOLE’S.
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