Styles: Trumpet Jazz
Year: 2014
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 59:01
Size: 135,4 MB
Art: Front
( 7:13) 1. Stratosphere
(10:45) 2. Volcano
( 1:17) 3. Courant D'Air
( 9:13) 4. Tumulte Et Fracas
( 1:22) 5. Lunaire Part 1
( 1:11) 6. Lunaire Part 2
( 8:31) 7. Lunaire Part 3
( 8:09) 8. Bulles D'Amour
(11:15) 9. Boules De Neige
After the album " Lights " in which Nicolas Folmer inviting Daniel Humair had begun to explore a path where it was not expected, the trumpet player with this new album composes a music with forms even more open, more suggestive than frozen, still more mobile and flexible. The musicians who accompany Nicolas Folmer have an important role in this evolution, Daniel Humair, already present on the previous album has made him give up the comfort of a game too predictable, the guests of this new album did not to reinforce Nicolas Folmer's attraction to turbulent shores, Dave Liebman, Miles Davis' fellow-traveler with the spirit of Coltrane, and Michel Portal, European songwriter of improvisation. And for playgrounds at these beautiful meetings, the Opera de Lyon which for several days hosted Nicolas Folmer and his guests resulting in a superb concert / album which, once again, will leave us to think that jazz is always alive ...
What Vincent Bessières, journalist at Jazz News, says ..."It's the art of great artists not to be where we expect them. To give us to see, to hear, to read, to contemplate, works that we did not suspect they could create. Capable not in the sense of competence or technique, but in the sense of the disposition of mind, mental representations: those which make it possible to project oneself elsewhere, that one manages to draw from oneself something of new, unexpected, sometimes unexpected, a new form in which one reveals oneself to be different.
In jazz more than in any music, this ability to be in the becoming of oneself has become almost a categorical imperative since Miles Davis established the principle. Miles Davis, a musician who, with time, Nicolas Folmer seems to get closer insensibly. Not in sound, nor in style, but in attitude towards music, its nuances, its circulation, its provocation. It is likely that Sphere will be a surprise for those who have not heard Nicolas Folmer for a long time. A good surprise, that goes without saying. The brilliant instrumentalist, whose mastery earned him the esteem of colleagues of Wynton Marsalis' caliber, eclipsed it in front of the musician in search, on the lookout for new sensations. The talented conductor and arranger, a lover of slender melodies and funky spinners, gives way to a composer with open forms, more suggestive than fixed, mobile and modular, who does not matter what is noted on the score that this that his partners are doing in the moment of improvisation. We must salute this metamorphosis, which is not a radical revolution but the natural evolution of a musician who, after having assimilated a lot, feels ready to dispose of himself and his knowledge.
The musicians who accompany Nicolas Folmer in this adventure are not for nothing in this evolution. Daniel Humair, drummer with whom he laid the foundation of the group, strongly encouraged this desire for change, breaking his last reluctance to release the bridle, encouraging him to give up the comfort of a game too predictable and engage in these new directions for which his attraction was growing. Waves that did not cause that the two guests of this real fake "live" disc (recorded on several days but mounted like a single concert, without false connection), David Liebman and Michel Portal, which are like the poles of this Sphere to which the album owes its title. On the one hand, Liebman, companion of Miles Davis, saxophonist marked by the spirit of John Coltrane, and who carries in him all the legacy of modern jazz, even in its innermost depths; on the other, Portal, which for several decades has been the instigator of another way of apprehending the gesture of improvisation, attentive to what the urgency of the moment can bring forth as spontaneous sources of music. . Between them, basically, less differences than kinship and, above all, a way of being constantly on the brink, to bend to the demands of the interaction, without false pretense, which gives to this album a part of its coherence and his inspiration. Faced with such partners, Nicolas Folmer has rebuffed the cards of his game to give free rein to his expression but also to reposition himself inside the music and match with those he invited to explore with him. In this configuration, Emil Spanyi at the piano and Laurent Vernerey at the double bass find their place brilliantly, whether they contribute to defining the perimeter of evolution of the music or that they intervene directly in his heart. With a success that will bluff more than one, Nicolas Folmer wins on a territory where we did not expect, shaking our prejudices, sweeping our certainties. Sovereign of his instrument, as formerly, but rising to the challenge of music, collective play, endangering. What, once again, invite us to consider jazz as the space of all reinvivations. " http://nicolasfolmer.com/js_albums/sphere
Personnel: Trumpet, Composed By – Nicolas Folmer; Bass Clarinet, Soprano Saxophone – Michel Portal; Double Bass – Laurent Vernerey; Drums – Daniel Humair; Piano – Emil Spanyi; Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone, Flute – David Liebman
Sphere
