French pianist Sofiane Pamart unveils MOVIE. A cinematic piano project merging voice and orchestral scoring into a film-driven narrative.
Set for April 17 via 88 Touches, MOVIE positions Sofiane Pamart as composer and musical director; structured as a scored “film” with 14 collaborators across a piano-led framework. Features include Wyclef Jean, Celeste, Loreen, J Balvin, Rema, FKJ, Christine and the Queens, Sia, and Nelly Furtado. Bridging pop, hip-hop, Afrobeats, and orchestral scoring into a single narrative system. Pamart explains:
I listen for the places in a voice where life has left a mark. Technical perfection doesn’t move me. What moves me is when a voice carries something unresolved, something it hasn’t fully made peace with. Tone matters, character matters, but I’m searching for stories too heavy to live only in the singer’s voice, stories that need sound to hold them.
Production extends into film-score territory with the Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and choir. Locking orchestral scale into a contemporary recording framework designed for cinematic sequencing rather than playlist fragmentation. He adds:
When I watch a film, I have no emotional distance. I follow the characters into their hearts. I feel what they feel.
Positioning carries beyond the record: a headline piano show at Stade de France in 2027 scales the concept into live infrastructure. MOVIE operates as a directed audio project. Less album, more score, where voice, piano, and narrative move inside a controlled cinematic system.