Circles and Calligrams Benoît Delbecq

• 1 Circles and Calligrams 06:02
• 2 Ando 09:12
• 3 Meanwhile 04:53
• 4 A Lack of Dreams 06:11
• 5 Alpha 01:28
• 6 Flakes 01:19
• 7 BioBeat 08:56
• 8 Le sixième saut 03:44
• 9 Fireflies 06:54
• 10 Mille Nandie remix 05:14
• Total Runtime 53:53

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Es ist das zweite Solopiano-Werk Delbecq´s bei Songlines, und wieder ist es ein Füllhorn voller musikalischer Ideen. Wie zuvor baut er das Klangspektrum des Klaviers aus, indem er zahlreiche mechanische Veränderungen am Instrument vornimmt, hier dämpft, dort die Saiten mit Stäben und anderem Zierrat belegt, percussiv die Holzverkleidung bearbeitet usw. Auf mehreren Spuren eingespielt und übereinander gelegt, ergibt sich dann auch der Klangeindruck eines größeren Ensembles. Jazz, Avantgarde, Neue Musik reichen sich die Hand.

'Intelligent, einzigartig in seiner Vision und Konzept, fesselnd und von einer unglaublichen Leichtigkeit. Eine absolute Freude für das Ohr und die Sinne.'

Benoit Delbecq, Piano

Auszeichnungen:
THE NEW YORK TIMES Critic's choice Oct.2010
Critic's choice 2010 - AllAboutJazz New York
Best of 2010 - The Georgia Straight - Vancouver
Best of 2010 - France Musique
Best of 2010 LE MONDE

Hinweis: Track 10 wurde in 48kHz aufgenommen, in 96kHz gemixt und gemastert.

Benoît Delbecq - Piano
Born in 1966, Parisian pianist Benoît Delbecq gures today among the innovators of the international contemporary jazz scene. His reputation and in uence have been growing steadily since the early 90’s, and the New York Times recently described him as « an original and unconventional pianist » who « expertly » invents a « serene » music. An inspired adventurer, a goldsmith of prepared piano and a visionary poet in the art of electronically recycling his own statements, he actively participates in the new aesthetic breakthroughs of today.
A former student of Mal Waldron, Alan Silva, Muhal Richard Abrams and Steve Coleman among others, Benoît’s international pro le took o around 1992 from appearances at Paris’s cutting-edge club « Les Instants Chavirés », in parallel with the founding of Kartet, The Recyclers and the Hask Collective, all of which helped revitalize the Paris creative music scene. Since then Benoît has been touring around the globe. He performs solo piano and solo electronics, leads or co-leads a number of bands from duos to quintets, and is involved in many multi-disciplinary productions of theater, dance, the visual arts, cinema etc. His music features mesmerizing grooves that shake out ashing, lunar melodies. An invitation to a voyage into a magic land (in Le Monde).

« Prix de la Sacem » in 1995 (with the collective Kartet), Benoît was awarded the « Prix de la Villa Médicis Hors les Murs » in 2001, and received the prestigious fellowship of the Civitella Fundation New York (2009). His last CDs, The sixth Jump (trio with bass player Jean-Jacques Avenel et drummer Emile Biayenda) and Circles and Calligrams (solo) both received the « Grand Prix International du Disque Charles Cros » 2010 and are part of the ten albums of the year for the New-York Times and Le Monde

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