Alexandra Grimal Trio - shape (June 2021)

"(...) mystère reste entier nous rassure quand à l'impalpable de la musique. Ce qui se passe, ce qui se joue alors est très beau, très profond. Ceci pour dire l'essentiel de l'honnêteté, l'humilité et l'humanité d'un trio plus que prometteur" Luc Bouquet, Improjazz

"(...) Un trio exemplaire et organique, qui raconte la même histoire à plusieurs voix et dans le même espace-temps en approfondissant constamment le discours à travers la matière et la texture sonore (...) Un voyage expérimental et jusqu'au-boutiste qui envisage le jazz avec un esprit d'indépendance et une intégrité totale." Audacieux Jazzmagazine Lionel Eskenazi

1. mouvances 15:20

2. en silence 01:06

3. le sang n'est pas bleu 19:51

4. forêts aléatoires 05:19

5. petite plage 05:36

6. texture 01:40

7. suite du temps absorbé 21:41

Marge 42

Alexandra Grimal - tenor and soprano saxophones

Antonin Rayon - organ and clavinet

Emmanuel Scarpa - drums

shape / Live at the Sunset

Recorded live, June 30, 2008 Paris

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Dominique Pifarély Quartet - Nocturnes April 19, 2021 clean feed records)

Any new recording by French violinist Dominique Pifarély is good news. Being his quartet with Antonin Rayon,Bruno Chevillon and François Merville his more enduring band, this former companion of the also French reedist Louis Sclavis benefits from the maturity of this project, gained through the years, but also from an attitude of always reinventing itself, going to places that we not explored before. Interesting would be to compare this “Nocturnes” with “Tracé Provisoire”, the album recorded by the Dominique Pifarély Quartet for ECM. If this previous one had the undistinguishable mark of Manfred Eicher’s production, the first evidence of difference when listening to “Nocturnes” is in Sound.

More is to come, even if there’s similar poetic atmospheres and, as a composer (and particularly brilliant at that task), Pifarély continues to put his writing at the service of the collective and of their improvisational work, be it the ensemble or the individual solos. Besides the pleasure these four exceptional instrumentalists give to our ears, the way in which the composed and the improvised intermingles in this collection of pieces is a very strong factor of enthusiasm.

1. Nocturne 1 02:56

2. La nuit ravie (part 1) 02:36

3. La rumeur qui vient (part 1) 08:16

4. La rumeur qui vient (part 2) 05:00

5. Nocturne 2 02:09

6. Nocturne 3 02:20

7. Les ombres (part 1) 07:25

8. Nocturne 4 01:33

9. clean feed - La nuit ravie (part 2) 02:29

10. Ad augusta 05:32

11. Ad augusta 05:34

Dominique Pifarély violin

Antonin Rayon piano

Bruno Chevillon double bass

François Merville drums

All compositions by Dominique Pifarély except 1, 5 by Dominique Pifarély and Antonin Rayon and 6, 8 by Dominique Pifarély and Bruno Chevillon

Recorded on Dec. 5-6-7, 2017 by Gérard de Haro, assisted by Anaëlle Marsollier, at Studio La Buissonne (France) Mixed by Gérard de Haro on Sept. 7-8, 2020 | Mastered by Nicolas Baillard, Studio La Buissonne

Produced by Virginie Crouail / Archipels-Cie Dominique Pifarély | Executive production by Pedro Costa for Trem Azul | Design by Travassos | Cover photo by Ricardo Leiria | Photos by Jean-Baptiste Millot

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