Joëlle Léandre & Pascal Contet - 3 (2014)

Ayler Records: aylCD-137
http://www.ayler.com/joelle-leandre-pascal-contet-3.html



* Joëlle Léandre: contrebasse (contrabass)
* Pascal Contet: accordéon (accordion)

http://www.joelle-leandre.com/
http://www.pascalcontet.com/

Recorded at Carré Bleu, Poitiers, 12 April 2012.
Engineer: Miké Goupilleau.


Reviews

By Stef
http://www.freejazzblog.org/...e-pascal-contet-3-ayler.html

In 1994 French artists Joëlle Léandre and Pascal Contet recorded their first
album, then some ten years ago they released their second album (on Clean
Feed), and now, twenty years after their initial collaboration, the third album
is released.

If you have any idea of what a duo between a double bass and an accordion
sounds like, think again ... and listen. Both musicians know their instruments
and their possibilities to perfection, so much so, that it allows them to
create a sonic universe of tight, fragile and lyrical interaction, sometimes
joyful, with folk elements intervening, sometimes dramatic, with classical
gravity, sometimes free as the wind, with European improv influences, and more
often than not a combination of moods and influences, full of paradoxes and
tension that keep the listener's ears glued to the sound, enjoying the
precision, the sensitivities, the beauty of sounds, the possibilities of the
instruments, the possibilities of the interaction, the surprises that come up
all the time, especially in the atmosphere that is subdued and calm, with some
wildness in between, for contrast, with deep emotional power both in the quiet
and more voluminous parts, with two musicians whose ears and minds are also as
one to the music and its possibilities, listening and creating instantaneously,
and if for lesser musicians this may sound like a recipe for chaos, in the hand
of masters this turns into magic, the magic of creating an atmosphere that is
alien and deeply familiar, of mystery and comfort.

Enjoy!

--

By Massimo Ricci
http://www.squidsear.com/cgi...ews/newsView.cgi?newsID=1732

By Eyal Hareuveni
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/...review-by-eyal-hareuveni.php

By Grego Applegate Edwards
http://www.gapplegateguitar....leandre-pascal-contet-3.html

Par Julien Héraud (fr)
http://www.improv-sphere.blo...leandre-pascal-contet-3.html

Par Jean Buzelin (fr)
http://www.culturejazz.fr/spip.php?article2506

Par Luc Bouquet (fr)
http://grisli.canalblog.com/...ves/2014/04/11/29638869.html

Par Franpi Barriaux (fr)
http://www.citizenjazz.com/J...e-Pascal-Contet-3470205.html

Por Pachi Tapiz (es)
http://www.tomajazz.com/web/?p=13174