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Christophe Monniot & Le Grand Orchestre du Tricot: Jericho Sinfonia
ByMonniot's brainchild merges experimental episodic motifs with modern jazz and even a few traces of trad jazz, as the improvisational quotient looms large throughout. Here, the orchestra builds upon layers along with subsets of performers re-engineering a given theme. Think of expansion and reduction tactics complete with regimented horns arrangements, staggered detours, circular patterns and forceful plot developments. Indeed, it's an agile band that works through manifold song-forms, injected with winding trajectories, false endings and ominous events in parallel with spoken word exchanges.
"Paix Nombres" includes a fractured rock pulse amid quietly soaring horns and orbital phrasings via complex unison choruses, chameleonic colorizations, Guillaume Aknine's distortion-tinged guitar riffs and drummer Adrien Chennebault's hard-hitting grooves. But there's so much happening on each track, it's hard to get a firm grasp on the big picture after only one or two listens. And while Monniot is teeming with clever ideas, complemented by his strong soloing, the musical paradigms occasionally spawn a sense of neuroticism. However, the orchestra does a nifty job of using melody as a framework for blazing improv activities.
The musicians tone it down a few notches on "Hymne 3," where ethereal interludes and Aknine's atmospheric guitar lines present the listener with a brooding sense of uncertainty as they casually reenergize with simmering crescendos. But the orchestra bounces back with a dynamic outbreak as the tempo seldom sits still, leading to stoic and malleable charts, uplifted with scorching odd-metered cadences. No doubt, Monniot is onto something truly special here. But the program warrants the audience's astute concentration and it's by no means an easy listening, finger-snapping jazz production.
Track Listing
Veni Veni Emmanuel; Pré-Hymne; Hymne 1 - Fil Rouge 1; Paix Nombres; Hymne 2 - Fil Rouge; Sonne, Heure!; Hymne 3; Fil Rouge 3; Ultime Atome; Dans Cité.
Personnel
Christophe Monniot
saxophoneChristophe Monniot: sopranino & alto saxophones, composition; Sylvie Gasteau: sound design & libretto; Roberto Negro: piano; Valentin Ceccaldi: cello, electric fretless bass, percussion; Adrien Chennebault: drums; Florian Satche: drums, percussion; Guillaume Aknine: electric guitar; Quentin Biardeau: soprano & tenor saxophones; Gabriel Lemaire: alto & baritone saxophones; Jean-Baptiste Lacou: trombone; Alexis Persigan: trombone; Yoann Loustalot: trumpet, cornet; Alan Regardin: trumpet.
Album information
Title: Jericho Sinfonia | Year Released: 2018 | Record Label: Ayler Records
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About Christophe Monniot
Instrument: Saxophone
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