on the well-tempered clavier new solo album, Contrepoint text by NICOLAS GODIN portrait in his Paris apartment by GIASCO BERTOLI Sometime during my fourth world tour with my band, AIR, I observed the following: Music was taking up only a small part of my daily life. I had become what Glenn Gould called “a traveling monkey in the concert circus…” Glenn Gould. A mythical name. A musician friend had told me about the two documentaries Bruno Monsaingeon had made about him, Hereafter and The Alchemist, so of course I watched them. Right from the beginning of each film, we understand that we are watching one of the greatest musicians of all time (Gould), playing the most beauti- ful music of all time (Bach). The extremely personal way Gould interprets Bach goes against all the normal rules of performance, such that a new art form appears before our eyes. It…