PRESS
Finding Light
Jazz News : "Essential"
Jazz Magazine : 4 stars
Album of the week for NDR (German radio)
Jazzwise (UK), 4 stars and Editor's Choice :
"adventurous and inventive guitar "
Jazzlife (japan) « Jazz guitar trio masterpiece »
Paris Jazz Club : wonderful « dia- logue à trois ».
Jazz Podium (Germany): "A success"
Jazzthetic Magazin (Ger) 4 Stars : « euphoric and playful ».
Télérama TTT : "Romain Pilon continues to air his guitar playing, and to gain in spontaneity, to the point of achieving this undeniable authority, serenity"
Falling Grace
Jazz Magazine, CHOC
"The osmosis with his longtime accomplice Yoni Zelnik and a luminous Jeff Ballard makes all the beauty of Falling Grace...from each note emerges a timeless grace."
Le Soir (Belgium)
"It's happiness. This album is classy, very classy"
Télérama, TTT
"The finesse and authority that Pilon demonstrates in his appropriations is admirable"
Jazz News
"a free and emotional musical universe, where a beautiful trio expresses itself"
Guitar Xtreme
"...a very subtle aerial playing, stating Pilon as one of the most worthy heirs of the contemporary jazz guitarists ..."
France Musique, album of the Week FIP
"State of Grace...One of those rare records where every note feels right"
TSF (Radio), disc of the day :
"A trio of rare elegance"
Couleur Jazz, HIT
"Romain Pilon has no equal in revealing the richness of a melodic line by developing in the most natural way solos built with rigor and logic"
JazzWise (Uk)
« Pilon has a flawless technique and a delicacy of sound that makes his expositions of these familiar pieces about mesmeric »
Copper :
Choc Jazz Magazine:
"A powerful, accomplished, and masterful album."
Citizen Jazz:
"A generous and velvety music, carried by finely crafted melodies and subtle harmonies."
Jazz Podium (Germany):
"A marvel of taste and style."
Jazzwise (UK): "...An impressive eight-cut set."
"Ny3"
" Romain Pilon is a guitarist full of surprises. He has a flawless technique and a great harmonic sense. He is someone to keep an eye on."
Lionel Loueke
"Romain is a monster. A big, scary monster. A killer...and he also sounds pretty damn great".
Lage Lund
Un guitariste à l'originalité merveilleuse “//
“A guitarist with marvellous originality”
JazzClub, France Musique
"...un plaisir d'écoute qui me renvoie à d'autres émois datant de la découverte des disques de Jim Hall... ou au premier Pat Metheny de "Bright Size Life"". Franck Bergerot, "Choc" Jazzman-Jazzmagazine
"...un sens de la respiration rare, un guitariste à l'imagination fluide et exigeante, dont la sonorité sur l'instrument est l'un des plus élégantes du moment". Jazz News
"Romain Pilon plays with a trueness that is missing in a lot of guitarist today. A knowledge of the past, and a foot in the future. Lyrical and conscience of pure sound." Mike Moreno
"This is a beautiful Cd from one of the best guitarists on the scene today !
Romain Pilon is a great player that many people will know more about very soon. His playing and composing reveal a powerfull and personal voice on the instrument " Peter Bernstein
"Romain's new record is wonderful. The compositions are beautiful and Romain's playing, as well as his band-members', is interactive and innovative. Bravo!" Gilad Hekselman
Prez/Pilon, "II"
"Assurement l'un des disques -et des groupes-les plus sincères et les plus enthousiasmants à emerger du jazz hexagonal"//"Surely of the most sincere and enthousiasthic jazz group -and album- to emerge in france" (4 stars)
Jazzmagazine, dec. 2008
“Un guitariste aussi exigeant que talentueux”
Batteur Magazine
"...lorsque le logique naturelle de ses solos va de paire avec l'envie d'en decoudre , mieux vaut se garer! Ca joue, comme on dit, et cela fait plaisir à entendre !...(Prez/Pilon group, II)
Nicolas Bremaud , Jazzman Jazz magazine
"The Magic Eye"
"Du neuf qui retient" Telerama
"...style et maturité y font merveille sur un répertoire qui impressionne" .'
Jazz News "indispensable"
"Romain Pilon affirme une démarche d'une limpidité rare....Son jazz sonne de facon aérienne(...)pour nous ammener sans heurt à l'évidence. Celle du plaisir d'écouter une guitare dense, jouée par un esprit clairvoyant". Guitarist Magazine
"La guitare de Romain Pilon est sans doute la plus subtile que le jazz ait entendue ces dernières années"... Qobuzz
"une rare sensibilité et une intelligence musicale...un travail d’orfèvre et au final une très belle réussite à découvrir absolument."
Les Dnj
"...une sensibilité attachante et une poésie profonde.
France Musique
"une exécution irréprochable...un jazz personnel, intriguant, élégant et efficace..."
Djam
"grande fluidité et lisibilité, jeu moderne, au meilleur sens du terme….le discours de Romain Pilon sait constamment aller à l’essentiel "
Jazz Mag
"Colorfield "
"...an album of smart neo-bop originals and sensitive ballads. Romain Pilon is a quick thinking player with an attractively warm, acoustic inspired tone… "
4 stars, Jazz Wise (Uk)
"A thoughtfully composed and melodic cd...
Pilon is world class "(Colorfield)
4 stars, Financial Times.
"...a sustained aesthetic that makes it a perfect mood piece... In it's own way a quiet masterpiece "
4 stars, the Jazzmann.com
"Un disque profond et équilibré...Romain Pilon déploie son talent dans la composition et dans des solos concentrés et patiemment construits......Un casting irréprochable "
Jazzmagazine, dec 2013
"Pilon plays with a round, soft edged tone, reminiscent of the great Jim Hall and uses absolutely no effects other than his great ear for harmonically acute, melodically elegant, rhythmically fluid improvisation. HIghly recommended."
The Blue Moment.com
"Pilon is without doubt one of the most outstanding guitarists to have emerged in recent years.”
Bebop Spoken Here
"Excellent"
Top 6 albums Nov 2013, Jazz News
"There are no dud moments on this recording. This is not a collection which grows on you; it attaches itself from the start and requires repeat playing."
Wexford Echo
A wonderfully relaxed breath of fresh air. A lovely unassuming album which doesn't need to impress, it's just happy to be, and is all the more fulfilling for it."
The Jazz Breakfast
