With this new album, Ellen Giacone and her quintet Body & Soul Consort explore early music through the lens of water, bringing voices and instruments together in a consort where the body and breath play a central role. 
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Following their debut album I Put a Spell on You, released in 2021, which brought together baroque and jazz repertoire, Ellen Giacone and her quintet Body & Soul Consort release Water Music. The album revives nine pieces selected from the early music repertoire, composed from works by Dowland,
Handel, Purcell, Melli, Brossard and Tessier, in a flow of influences ranging from jazz, bossa nova and minimalism to Balkan music. Water Music is conceived as an aquatic reverie in nine scenes, where styles mingle like currents to explore the mysteries of water: mirror of the soul, reflection of passing time and human passions, tomb of life, or even nourishing water, as theorised by Gaston Bachelard in Water and Dreams (1942).
The nine selected pieces undergo a total metamorphosis thanks to the rewriting and composition work of Srdjan Berdovic, Adrien Alix and Ellen Giacone, in the manner of water, an ambivalent and protean element that takes on the forms it flows through.
This musical programme will be accompanied by a stage production scheduled for release in 2026/27. At the heart of this production is a play between darkness and light, the depths and the open air, where the baroque imagination, populated by nymphs, goddesses and simple humans tormented by their passions, will encounter more contemporary representations, evoking musicals, cabaret and the cinematic world of the 1960s.
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