I coulf be very long on this one. Because it's a long story, and a long project.

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Of course, everything starts in 2000 with the release of M. Night Shyamalan's movie.
Such a shock.

I saw it four times in theaters, with different friends each time, just to enjoy their surprises at the end (the final twist worked for each of them). And then a few more times on dvd.

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I quickly conceived to compose a personal soundtrack inspired by this movie, as I often do when a film moves me so much. I planned a tracklist (quite close to the final one) and started to write the first themes.

But it was hard. Something was missing.

As I shared the vision of the movie and my enthusiasm about it with many people, I found out that I needed to share the musical accomplishment of this project with someone - well, with Fabien of course, because no one could do that with enough talent and empathy.

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He loved the movie too, of course. And he's been nice enough to grant my offer.

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To make progress in the project, we left for a weekend in a Fabien's familial country house with our keyboards, some sheet of music paper, two copies of the screenplay of The Sixth Sense. Surrounded by spiders and silence, we worked on a few bunch of ideas and themes, adding improvisations and proceeding by trial and error to bring main lines out.

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Then we started to work on our own visions of this material. The only rules were : feeling free to play with our common music without boundaries, and use sound extracts of the movie as parts of the music itself.

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Fabien decided to organize his album in four movements. Feel free to listen to it right here : https://fabienlabonde.bandcamp.com/album/the-sixth-sense

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As for me, I kept a ordinary fifteen-part tracklist and used every material we put in common, mixing it with a "classical" approach of the music - piano, harp, strings and so on, added to voices and stranger electronic sounds for the supernatural sequences.

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I really enjoyed this experience. I think it's one of my better works, highly sensitive and consistent. It sounds like a musical movie, where the actors' voices and the words they say are as important as the notes which surround them.

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I've really dreamt of achieving such a piece of musical writing for a long time. I've tried that for the cd version of Jurassic Park, then for Le Retour.

But I think I've fully succeeded in it with The Sixth Sense, and I'm quite happy with that.