Kham Meslien

DIGIPACK EDITION

The first-ever album of solo bass work from Kham Meslien – a player whose contributions have graced a number of different groups in recent years, but who maybe sounds even more powerful here on his own! There's a warmth to the music that makes the solo bass performance very different than the sort of set you'd hear on ECM – a lot more like French material of the 70s, especially some of the music of bassist Henri Texier in his youth – with colors and feelings that come from beyond the boundaries of jazz, but worked together with a warmth on the instrument that balances improvisation with a subtle sense of structure.

TRACKS:

• 01. Ta confiance
• 02. Mauza
• 03. The Alarm
• 04. La couleur (Elbows of the land) feat. Anthony Joseph
• 05. Kar kar kar
• 06. Gnawen
• 07. Le saule Pleureur
• 08. F Comme
• 09. Á travers les Orages
• 10. Fantômes Futurs