L'imparfait des langues (豆瓣)

表演者: Louis Sclavis
流派: 爵士
专辑类型: 专辑
介质: CD
发行时间: 2007
出版者: ECM Records
唱片数: 1
条形码: 0602498778975

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　　“Confronted with the new generation, master of ceremonies Sclavis gave of his very best. We await, impatiently, this group’s ECM disc.” Philippe Robert, Jazz Magazine, November 2006
　　Louis Sclavis’s newest album has an unusual history. The French reedman/composer/ improviser had received a commission to premiere a new project at Monaco’s Festival Le Printemps des Arts in... (展开全部) 　　“Confronted with the new generation, master of ceremonies Sclavis gave of his very best. We await, impatiently, this group’s ECM disc.” Philippe Robert, Jazz Magazine, November 2006
　　Louis Sclavis’s newest album has an unusual history. The French reedman/composer/ improviser had received a commission to premiere a new project at Monaco’s Festival Le Printemps des Arts in Monte Carlo, in April 2005. Wanting to challenge his own working habits as a composer, to bring unpredictable elements into play in the improvising, and “a new syntax” into his musical language, Sclavis decided to build a new ensemble with young players. Firebrand altoist Marc Baron for instance, a mere 23 years old at the time, came into the project as a hot tip from cellist Vincent Courtois, who had just begun working with the sax player. Keyboardist Paul Brousseau had, barely weeks before, been added to another Sclavis group, Big Napoli, (the expanded edition of the Napoli’s Walls ensemble which has recorded for ECM) and was still feeling his way into the Sclavis soundworld. With Maxim Delpierre, Sclavis had jammed just once, as a guest of the guitarist’s trio. “It was precisely because I wasn’t sure if I would be able to incorporate his way of playing that I wanted to try. He has a very unusual approach to the guitar...” As French magazine Jazzman observed: “Delpierre has certainly heard Sonny Sharrock, Glenn Branca and Sonic Youth” – overdriven, saturated guitar sounds are part of his palette.
　　Sclavis: “So, with the exception of (drummer) François Merville, who I’ve worked with often, these were not only players quite new to me, but musicians who did not know my work in detail either. They are all of them working in all kinds of different contexts, including experimental music and rock. None of them is a ‘pure’ jazz musician – but then, neither am I.” Sclavis sketched his compositions for “L’imparfait des langues” in ten days, leaving plenty of space for improvising, and began rehearsing his new crew in earnest. “Some of the basic musical ideas were very simple, sometimes as little as an eight- bar or sixteen bar phrase for two instrumental voices... In preparing music for this group I am definitely interested as much in sound and texture as in the melodies... Anyway: it was soon quite clear to us that we had something special with this group of players.”
　　Then, the day before the concert, Prince Rainier of Monaco, longest-reigning European monarch, died at the age of 81, the nation was plunged into mourning and the Sclavis performance cancelled! Primed to play and abruptly deprived of an outlet, Louis took his musicians instead into Studios la Buissonne in Pernes-les-Fontaines and recorded the music in a single day. The freshness of the results is unmistakable.
　　The Monte Carlo festival appearance was rescheduled for April 2006. Since then the group has been playing widely, and Sclavis is steadily writing new material for the ensemble. “The level of enthusiasm in the ensemble is very high: I think you can hear that on the CD. These are guys who really want to play. Small clubs, concerts, festivals – we don’t care – we’ll play anywhere! And the music is changing... Paul Brousseau is bringing in new colours all the time with his sounds and samples, and there is more improvising. I see a lot of development possible with this quintet, and the potential to work with these players for several years.”
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　　Marc Baron was born in Paris in 1981 and has been playing saxophone and improvising from the age of 10. Currently in two of Vincent Courtois’s bands, the quartet What DoYou Mean By Silence and the sextet Rose Minvelle, Baron’s experience ranges from free improvising to playing contemporary composition; he has collaborated regularly with composer Bernard Cavana – as well as multi-disciplinary performances with dancers, video artists, theatre groups... In recent years he has also worked with, amongst others, Sylvain Kassap, Sylvie Courvoisier, Seijiro Murayama, Thierry Madiot...
　　Maxime Delpierre was born in Nantes “in the mid 1970s” and was first inspired by the electric guitar sounds of rock and pop in groups including the Ventures, the Pink Floyd and the Jimi Hendrix Experience. After a brief detour into classical piano he proceeded to study jazz guitar, at the same time immersing himself in the music of Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and Ornette Coleman. In Paris from ’93 he absorbed bebop and standards. At the decade’s end he met and played with Médéric Collignon, Sunny Murray, Mark Turner and many others. Currently leads two bands of his own, Trio Mutatis Mutandis and Trio Limousine.
　　Paul Brousseau was born in 1976 in Poitiers. A self-taught multi instrumentalist, he plays piano and prepared piano, synthesizers, various keyboards, guitar, basses and percussion, and moves easily between genres. A creator of sounds, ambiences, ideas, he played with guitarist Marc Ducret before joining Sclavis’s groups.
　　Drummer François Merville studied classical percussion and piano and has worked with the Ensemble Intercontemporain under Pierre Boulez. Since 1993, however, he has devoted himself exclusively to jazz. He has played in many of Sclavis’s groups over the last 12 years and has worked, furthermore with Ray Anderson, Michel Portal, Martial Solal, Dave Douglas, Django Bates and many others. Also leads his own quartet.
　　Louis Sclavis, born 1953 in Lyon, has brought new impulses to jazz in Europe. His recordings include the ECM discs “Rouge”, “Acoustic Quartet”, “Les Violences de Rameau”, “L’Affrontement des Prétendants”, “Dans la nuit” and “Napoli’s Walls”. Sclavis has always fielded several projects concurrently. In addition to the quintet L’imparfait des langues, he can be heard in 2007 with the group Big Napoli, and with the long running trio Sclavis/ Romano/Texier. He also continues to give concerts with the Dans la nuit ensemble which plays music to the silent film of Charles Vanel.

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Premier imparfait « a »
L’idée du dialecte
Premier imparfait « b »
Le verbe
Dialogue with a dream
Annonce
Archéologie
Deuxième imparfait
Convocation
Palabre
Le long du temps
L’écrit sacrifié
Story of a phrase
L’imparfait des langues