nicolas godin interview and photography by OLIVIER ZAHM a musician’s apartment in the 7th arrondissement, redesigned by mathias kiss, with soft acoustic comfort, moody bourgeois interiors, and a tenebrous elegance OLIVIER ZAHM — Your second solo album is about to be released. What’s the story behind that? NICOLAS GODIN — To begin with, it was a commission linked to contemporary art. Something the artist Xavier Veilhan put to me three years ago. He asked me to produce music for the different exhibitions he was doing in famous houses designed by modernist architects all around the world. There are three of them in Los Angeles (by Pierre Koenig, John Lautner, and Richard Neutra), one in Russia by Konstantin Melnikov, the Barcelona Pavilion by Mies van der Rohe, and the church by Claude Parent in Nevers. I love architecture. I studied architecture for six years, between 1989 and 1995. I brought these pieces together to make…