It is during a residency from February to April 2020 at the Domaine de Kerguéhennec, in Brittany, that saxophonist and composer Baptiste Boiron composed and created the repertoire of the trio “Là”.
As a saxophonist, Baptiste Boiron has been navigating between jazz and contemporary music that he studied with Jean-Yves Bosseur. He has performed with many improvisers as much as he has interpreted the scores of Jean-Sébastien Bach, Claude Debussy, Edgard Varèse, Georges Aperghis and many others ...
From the first track, our ears are caught by the superposition of ostinatos and proposals, as much as by the polyphonic abundance and the multiplication of modes of play, conventional or alternative. This diversity is only matched by the multiplicity of writing processes emanating from an artist whose pen, like saxophones, testifies to a long experience in the classical and contemporary field. These processes are relayed here by his two fellow musicians who, in addition to the spaces left to their own initiatives as improvisers, have contributed to the completion of these scores in which the boundary between the premeditated and the ‘impromptu’ blurs.
The repertoire – all originals, except for three titles – is dedicated to various artists (musicians or not, "who helped me build myself" says the composer) whose names are only delivered to our perspicacity in the form of anagrams. They say something more about this music where the narrative qualities and emotion show through beautiful instrumental and compositional techniques.
1. MAlin né délivré 04:22
2. Là 05:54
3. J’étais cet homme 03:14
4. trace de Fard Gris 06:11
5. Fleurette Africaine 04:21
6. nus, MonoliThe ok 05:06
7. B- Choir nu, l’envol 07:45
8. hAt noyant Bronx 07:48
9. avec StyLe 06:35
10. Bander brutaL 05:16
11. Prayer 03:30
12. Dur trac Mec 14:54
13. Le sourire à travers les larmes 06:39
14. Lonnie’s Lament 07:18
Baptiste Boiron - Soprano, alto & tenor saxophones
Bruno Chevillon - Double bass
Frédéric Gastard - Bass saxophone
All music composed and arranged by Baptiste Boiron
at Centre d’Art de Kerguéhennec, Bignan, France, except
#5 by Duke Ellington, #11 by Keith Jarrett & #14 by John Coltrane
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Fred Woff
Cover photo by Baptiste Boiron
