Philippe B

Three years after the appearance of his second effort, Philippe B is back with Variations Fantômes, the fruit of an intense introspection, out on Bonsound Records. For this third opus, the singer-songwriter drew his inspiration from a number of classical composers. Robert Schumann, at the end of his life, claimed that the voices of past composers were instructing him what to play. As Philippe tells it, I tried to listen to what these famous ghosts - of Ravel, Strauss, Schubert, Vivaldi - had to say.