Ingrid Laubrock+Tom Rainey+Stéphane Payen+Chris Tordini & Mika Kallio+Verneri Pohjola

INGRID LAUBROCK / STÉPHANE PAYEN / CHRIS TORDINI / TOM RAINEY "ALL SET" + MIKA KALLIO & VERNERI POHJOLA "ANIMAL IMAGE"
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"ALL SET"
If the two saxophonists have been watching each other for about fifteen years, it will have taken until today for this meeting to take place. The musical pretext at work is not the least of it and sends us back to 1957 when the George Russell and Günther Schuller Orchestra featuring Bill Evans (the disc is called Bill Evans and Orchestra!) "created" the piece "All Set" by composer Milton Babbitt for a jazz combo. We are in the midst of the "3rd trend" and the borders between jazz and contemporary music are already being demolished. If this work is written for a byte of jazz, it will be evoked and extended here in quartet only, as a work in progress held on fire by four unique voices of contemporary jazz, one jazz listening to the other and the multiple currents that have emerged over the past sixty years.

France - United States (creation) - Ingrid Laubrock, saxophone / Stéphane Payen, saxophone / Chris Tordini, double bass / Tom Rainey, drums
 
"ANIMAL IMAGE"
Si this project was born from the creation of an improvised soundtrack for the documentary film "Animal Image" by the Finnish visual artist Perttu Saksa, the music exists alone and evokes in turn the icy and ancient landscapes of the Finnish forest, the human and animal quest for a shared world in symbiosis, a search for infinity, purity. To discover.

Finland - Mika Kallio, drums, gongs / Verneri Pohjola, trumpet, electronics