Choses Clandestines, by L'étau (Keith Tippett/Michel Pilz/Paul Rogers/Jean-Noël Cognard)

Choses Clandestines

by L'étau (Keith Tippett/Michel Pilz/Paul Rogers/Jean-Noël Cognard)

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LP 1 and 2 black vinyl, LP 3 and 4 white vinyl.
8 pages Booklet, 23 x 23 cm.
Co-production: Disques Bloc Thyristors/Trace label
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1.	Sophistiqué barbare 13:57	buy track
2.	Le rideau déchiré 04:34	buy track
3.	Créer l'émotion puis la préserver 04:31	buy track
4.	Trois scripts abandonnés 06:51	buy track
5.	La danseuse blessée 03:08	buy track
6.	Couloir circulaire 05:23	buy track
7.	Projection de la scène 04:56	buy track
8.	Le rectangle de l'écran doit être chargé d'émotion 04:49	buy track
9.	La galerie des murmures 02:55	buy track
10.	Fondus dans l'arrière plan 04:23	buy track
11.	Dipôle 02:36	buy track
12.	L'intrigue devient plus sombre 15:15	buy track
13.	Les idées de la nuit 05:43	buy track
14.	Une enseigne lumineuse faisant la réclame d'une revue musicale (partie 1) 20:18	buy track
15.	Une enseigne lumineuse faisant la réclame d'une revue musicale (partie 2) 20:30	buy track
16.	Plancher authentique permettant de bien entendre le bruit des pas (partie 1) 18:03	buy track
17.	Plancher authentique permettant de bien entendre le bruit des pas (partie 2) 16:28	buy track

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Keith Tippett : piano, prepared piano, maracas
Michel Pilz : bass clarinet
Paul Rogers : seven-string double bass
Jean-Noël Cognard : drums, percussion

Recorded and mixed in 2013 at Pierre Schaeffer studio, Chatenay Malabry (France) by Patrick Müller and live (05/03/2013) at the Instants Chavirés, Montreuil (France)
Graphics : Mika Pusse

After having released Brigantin’s La Fièvre De L’Indépendance Jean-Noël Cognard (drums and percussion), the man behind Disques Bloc Thyristors, invited Great Britain’s top notch musicians Keith Tippet (piano) and Paul Rogers (bass), who have known each other for a very long time, and Luxembourgian free jazz legend Michel Pilz (bass clarinet), with whom he has worked on Binôme and Semelles De Fondation, for a studio session and a concert. The quartet turns out to be an ideal combination of personalities, almost like a band of brothers, a clash of two duos which seem to add up perfectly. Cognard's unusual and risky approach of providing a rhythmic framework combined with Rogers' unique playing on his seven-stringed double bass is used by the two ardent and highly lyrical melodists Tippett and Pilz to explore unknown territories.
The studio album presents the musicians in all possible combinations (quartet, various trios, duos and solos), it is a journey into the acoustic possibilities of their instruments and the whole range this music has to offer – the harsh, energetic and iconoclastic sides as well as the harmonic, intimate and spiritual ones. The studio part develops certain structures and themes which are readopted in the live performance. For instance, parts of "L’intrige devient plus sombre" remind of the legendary David S. Ware Quartet with Matthew Shipp and William Parker and its central motif is used at the end of the first part of the live session again. Other highlights of the studio session are the exhilarating Pilz/Tippett duo on "Créer l’émotion puis la preserver", Paul Rogers’ minimal figures which sound like outtakes of Steve Reich’s "Different Trains", the Erik Satie moments on "Fondus dans l’arrière Plan" and the quartet’s restrained energy on "Fondus dans l’arrière plan".
In addition, the band even excels itself in the concert. "Une enseigne lumineuse faisant la réclame d’une revue musicale" and "Plancher authentique permettant de bien entendre les bruit des pas" display what is possible if musicians have the time to rehearse, to develop and to communicate with each other. Both performances present a rolling steam-engine – and Michel Pilz is the one who is responsible for switching on the turbo. Pilz, a European free jazz musician who has been on board since the beginning, adds wonderful colors to the improvisation with his bass clarinet, he yearns, he moans, he caresses the notes and pushes the others relentlessly – and the listeners are rewarded with real free jazz moments.
I have been listening to L‘Étau’s Choses Clandestines for many weeks, it is an album that doesn’t let me go. However, for a long time I have had no idea how to write about it, how to live up to the music’s expectations, how to put into words what is so fascinating about this record. Recently I thought that the music was so perfect, so immaculate, so coherent, that it actually doesn’t need any words, you just have to listen to it and feel it.
Martin Schray, The Free Jazz Collective

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released December 1, 2013

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Trace Label is an independent record company founded in 1993 by composers / musicians Guillaume Loizillon, Patrick Müller & Laurent Saïet. Its artistic orientation is eclectic : alternative & experimental music, electroacoustic & electronic music, free jazz, soundtracks, sound poetry. ... more

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