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- Brain Dance Quintet (The Triton - January 27, 2011)

In recent years, Henri Texier multiplies the name of its formations while still keeping some of the same musicians. This "Brain Dance Quintet" is the "North-South Quintet", renamed on the occasion of this concert as part of the Brain Festival for research on neurodegenerative diseases. This quintet is actually the "Red Road Quartet, plus Bearzatti Francesco (the leader of the Quartet Tinissima saw two days ago ). This "Red Road Quartet" was itself sometimes called "Strada Quartet, as is the famous Strada Sextet, private and Corneloup Kornazov.

short, we Christophe Marguet on drums, sometimes less explosive, more concentrated, but still impressive, able to fire even with mallets. Henri Texier will do little in front, behind leader, offering small moments to Archer, a great play, and a small percussion instrument used on the strings. Manu Codjia is still volatile, liquid sounds here, burning, and we offer a solo electronic sound processing extraordinary inventiveness ("Tormentoso") before a very very rock song ("Mucho Calor"). The two blowers, Sébastien Texier and Francesco Bearzatti play more on the parallel on the complement, thus both on the clarinet, or both on saxophone. They exchange little lines like sax and trumpet can do. Faithful to the way in making Texier, they take solos one after another, spreading their ideas on large periods of time.



The concert features mostly songs from the album "Canto Negro" (sold in preview at the concert). Texier drew on his African inspiration, oscillates between energy and sadness (magnificent "Sueno Canto final). Some older chips ("Sacrifice") round the program.
All this gives excellent jazz, even if we could dream of more surprises, but the failure to have often seen this small group of musicians, a sense of their performance is "excellent as usual" .



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Crispell - Tinissima (Salle Jean Vilar - January 25, 2011)

First visit to this room at Arcueil, which is actually a converted movie theater. Marilyn Crispell

- Solo

Bent above the keyboard, face hidden by hair, it does not communicate with the public, focusing on his music. In a sequence ten minutes separated by short rests, it offers a mixture of three materials: the pointillist abstraction, finding rhythms, play with the silence of processions in which the two hands of a chase across keyboard, sometimes in stages, sometimes in opposition, but more joyful glee in furious frenzy, almost romantic melodies, accompaniment well classic.
This last part I like least, as these songs, which conclude almost every sequence, fail to move me. For cons, the intensity of energetic material is a great surprise, I thought Marilyn Crispell was more or less abandoned this ground in the period from "Braxton" on time "ECM". But
repetitive sequences, thus offering all the same ingredients in varying proportions, eventually tired and disappointed me a bit. Fortunately, the last a, a melody this time more exciting (maybe it written and not improvised?), Concludes with a perfect score.

Tinissima Quartet - Tina Modotti

After I saw this quartet present two months ago their second album on Malcolm X. Tonight, they return on the first, which was christened, dedicated to Tina Modotti, including photographs, superb, are projected above the band.



The group makes me feel much better tonight. Danilo Gallo, who is sicker, alternating between his aggressive and easily tampered with the electric bass guitar, and the more dynamic and warm bass. Zeno De Rossi no longer has to play disco era evoked forces, and offers a layer of rhythm that suits me better. Giovanni Falzone
remains sober in vocal effects, being confined almost to his trumpet. And Francesco Bearzatti always alternates between clarinet and alto saxophone. But between them, understanding and exchanges are more fruitful, perhaps because they are more familiar with these songs which they turn for much longer. Their duels in short phrases exchanged lively and adventurous, and we feel great pleasure that animates them all.
Suddenly, the gimmick "Masada Italian" works better, especially when the beak Bearzatti stridulate detached from his clarinet in acute modulated! They love their
treat for concert. This time, the poem funeral of Pablo Neruda which runs on a heavier music, beautiful tribute.



Elsewhere : Citizen Jazz, JazzMagazine
Spotify: Tinissima is not there, but if Crispell, here are two solo albums, Coltrane For dating from 1993 and Thumbnails 2008.

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Ea Sola - Air Lines (Theatre des Abbesses - January 19, 2011)

"This is a performance more than a" show "the booklet warns. In fact, Sola is presented by the roles of "design, set design, video, lighting and interpretation", a list which contains neither dance or choreography.

representation can be divided into two parts. The first is the most interesting. The scenery there is an important role. Fans raise plastic films in raging waves, and oppose the advance of Sola, who literally has to fight against all odds and attempts to reach a mast which flies a banner promising rest perhaps, it changes repeatedly, Europe, USA, China, decorated with stars.
On screen backdrop parade of names of other countries, other flags. And excerpts from a documentary on refugees Martyrs of the Gulf of Aden. On which she shoots a rifle suckers, I do not really know why ...
It disappears under the waves at times tumultuous, offered to the wind collapses but is recovering.

The second part presents a little dance. But there is a disturbing gap between the violence of what she wants to evoke, refugees chased from one country to another ("bursting with rage, he became an outlaw, turned terrorist", no less!) , and gentle movements and poses, which work to provide a calming, but there was enough before rage or rebellion.

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