Louis Sclavis

Louis Sclavis – Les Cadences du Monde (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 47:43 minutes | 906 MB | Genre: Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz, Modern Creative
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © JMS Productions

The Ariadne’s thread unwound by Louis Sclavis throughout his travels and musical adventures naturally leads him to write original melodies, nourished here and there by a sonic audacity and a timeless aesthetic well known to the public. His new album, ‘Les Cadences du Monde’, is a sort of bubbling case of imagined music inspired by the photographic work ‘L’Usure du monde’ by Frédéric Lecloux.
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Louis Sclavis – Les Cadences du Monde (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 47:43 minutes | 906 MB | Genre: Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz, Modern Creative
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © JMS Productions

The Ariadne’s thread unwound by Louis Sclavis throughout his travels and musical adventures naturally leads him to write original melodies, nourished here and there by a sonic audacity and a timeless aesthetic well known to the public. His new album, ‘Les Cadences du Monde’, is a sort of bubbling case of imagined music inspired by the photographic work ‘L’Usure du monde’ by Frédéric Lecloux.
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Louis Sclavis – Characters On A Wall (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 43:56 minutes | 807 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM

Louis Sclavis’s 13th ECM recording finds the French clarinetist drawing inspiration from two sources – the street art of Ernest Pignon-Ernest, and the interpretive originality of a splendid new quartet. Pignon-Ernest’s works were previously the subject of Sclavis’s highly acclaimed 2002 recording Napoli’s Walls. This time Sclavis looks at a broader range of the artist’s in situ collages from Ramallah to Rome, in search of “a dynamic, a movement that will give birth to a rhythm, an emotion, a song.” In the Sclavis group, gifted bassist Sarah Murcia and expressive drummer Christophe Lavergne join inventive pianist Benjamjn Moussay (a key collaborator on Sources and Salt and Silk Melodies) making this the first time Sclavis has explored – in characteristically individual fashion – the classic jazz format of reeds, piano, bass and drums on an ECM disc. Recorded at Studios La Buissonne in the South of France and produced by Manfred Eicher, Characters on a Wall is issued in vinyl and CD formats.

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Louis Sclavis – Asian Fields Variations (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 45:33 minutes | 767 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM

Asian Fields Variations marks the first time that clarinettist Louis Sclavis, violinist Dominique Pifarély and cellist Vincent Courtois, long-time colleagues, have recorded as a trio. Sclavis summoned the project into existence, but this is a democratic group of creative equals: “I proposed that we make a real collective, and each of us composes for the programme”. All three are major figures in contemporary French creative music: this is a new group with a lot of history. Sclavis and Pifarély have played together in diverse contexts for 35 years, Sclavis and Courtois for 20 years, but they retain the capacity to surprise each other – and their listeners – as improvisers. Alertness and freshness are key qualities here. “We’re always drawing also on a lot of different playing experiences. And those experiences are reflected in what we write, and what we play. We’re continually bringing new things to the project, and we keep going deeper”.

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