An album is a testimony. It captures who you are at the moment you write it. Your understanding of life, the discoveries that transform you, the trials you go through. You don’t really choose what an album contains. You think you choose the tracks, the keys, the tempos. But life dictates. An album is a photograph of who you are becoming. And once it exists, it doesn’t move. It stays there, anchored in time, faithful to the person you were when you wrote it or listened to it.
I feel like I can’t move forward until I’ve put down the notes that match my reflections on life, my emotional states. As long as what I carry inside hasn’t found its form in music, I can’t turn to the next chapter of my existence.
PLANET, LETTER, NOCHE. Three solo piano albums. Together, they form a trilogy.
PLANET is a reckoning. My first album, the one where I wanted to present the world with an identity worth hearing. To find it and to find myself, I traveled the world. Each track carries the name of a place, but secretly, each place carries a feeling. Le Caire is a love story. Seoul, revenge. La Havane, a seduction. Medellín, a proud declaration. Ocean, a sense of peace. PLANET is everything I had been up until that point, gathered in one place for the first time.
LETTER is an encounter. My second album. I met you. You were there, in front of me, in packed venues, in messages, in your lives where my music had started to exist without me. That changed everything. The essential word of this album is LOVE. The relationship between an artist and an audience is that of a love letter. We write to each other. Me with my music, you with your emotions. You receive these notes and bring them to life in your own stories. And the love you’ve given me by truly bringing my music to life, I try every day to give it back by rising as an artist, a performer, and a composer. By offering you new emotional paths.
NOCHE is a contemplation. My third album. The most faithful to a single state: that of the night, mysterious and poetic. I wanted no track to break from that atmosphere. Everything suspended in a gentle darkness. NOCHE closes the first trilogy of my career.
Three albums, three versions of myself. I didn’t know, when I was composing PLANET, that I was starting a trilogy. I didn’t know that LETTER would answer the solitude of PLANET, or that NOCHE would come to ease the intensity of LETTER. It’s only looking back that the design appears. In the moment, you move forward blind. You compose what you carry. And it’s only after that you understand the path.
The fourth album, which you’ll discover in two months, opens the doors to a new era. New perspectives. A new adventure.
Music creates anchors in a time that slips through our hands. It sets markers that help us locate the passing of time, to make sense of it. The image that comes to mind is that of a birth. A newborn you watch grow, who makes you rediscover life year after year, as their relationship with the world unfolds. For a newborn, every minute matters. Then every day. Then every week, every month. This difference in time between a child and an adult has always stunned me. We live in the same time, but it doesn’t hold the same meaning. Childhood years last centuries. Adult years pass like seasons.
To this time that disappears, music is a remedy. An album freezes a moment. It says: here, I was. This is what I felt. You can listen to it again in ten years, in twenty years, and that moment will be intact. Music doesn’t age. It waits. And when you come back to it, you’re the one who’s changed and it’s precisely that gap between who you were and who you’ve become that gives music its power.
PLANET, LETTER, NOCHE. Three testimonies.
And soon, the beginning of a new era.
Sincerely,
Sofiane Pamart
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The three best piano solo albums from one single comp… magician. You’re truly writing piano history 👏
i like how everything he says here is so tru
Sofiane, ur music always resonates with how i feel, and for that
thank u