After in Paris

Time Cycle with Paolo Fresu and Dave Liebman (OTN005)

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Time Cycle with Paolo Fresu and Dave Liebman

After in Paris

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Time Cycle with Paolo Fresu and Dave Liebman

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French jazz /electronica trio After in Paris draw on the formidable resources of American sax master David Liebman and the Miles Davis-steeped Sardinian trumpeter Paolo Fresu on this ambient soundtrack for an imaginary movie. There are quotes from sources including Citizen Kane, The Maltese Falcon and The War of the Worlds, with singer Claire Michael breathily intoning fragments of lyrics against her own overdubs, Liebman's muscular rhapsodising, and percussion grooves that sometimes have a drum'n'bass chatter, and sometimes a hard-swinging jazziness. Some episodes find Liebman's sound against keyboard tapestries reminiscent of In a Silent Way-era Wayne Shorter, and Fresu is sumptuously incisive over careering rhythms and inventive in overdub duets (his muted horn in dialogue with his open one). Liebman is superb over the bumpy swing of What Is a Lie? What Is the Truth? around Mary Astor's delivery of the same question from The Maltese Falcon. Fans of electronica, ambient and chillout music might be fascinated to discover this, but for jazzers it might all be a bit soft-core.
- John Fordham, The Guardin.com

Personnel:

CLAIREN MICHAEL, vocal, saxophones, flute
JEAN-MICHEL VALLET, acoustic piano, keyboards
PATRICK CHARTOL, bass

Special guests:
PAOLO FRESU, trumpet on tracks 2 & 7
DAVE LIEBMAN, soprano & tenor sax on tracks 5 & 10

Recorded in Paris, January & June, 2010.

Tracks:

01. Time Cycle
02. Short Cuts
03. Emotions Are So Strange
04. It's Halloween
05. Mind, Body & Spirit
06. The Clock
07. Up Town
08. What Is A Lie ? What Is The True?
09. Typical
10. Inexplicable
11. Missing Piece
12. Infinity of Life
13. Osmosis