For my debut album Sonorités de Paris Hein Wiedijk (Gutman Records), photographer Hans van der Woerd and I traveled to Paris. For two days we immersed ourselves in the city of light, on the hunt for an album cover that could capture the atmosphere of the music of Franck, Fauré, [Lili] Boulanger and Roger-Ducasse.
Accompanied by Beethoven String Quartets, we arrived by car on the afternoon of 7th of July in Paris at the height of its preparations for the Olympic Games. After settling in a hotel with a view reminiscent of Un Balcon à Paris (1881) by the impressionist Gustave Caillebotte, we scouted the city for spots to photograph the following day, making a pitstop in the Jardin du Luxembourg for a quick bite and deciding the starting point of the following day, Trocadéro at sunrise.