Michel Edelin

…The accent is put on the song, on melodic fluidity and rhythmic scansion, on the exactness of the narrative architecture, and one always keeps a respectful distance with large lyrical effusions and the emphatic expression of emotions. Michel Edelin, Jacques Di Donato, Jean-Jacques Avenel et Simon Goubert know how to calculate their phrases, sometimes as far as ellipse, they know how to delicately retie them, to proceed by allusions, sudden cuts, amused ruptures, leaps, tensions, parenthesis. One reaches an instant plenitude («A line, a few summary vibrations, and everything becomes clear», as Mallarmé wrote) irresistably seductive while, paradoxically, the improvisations flee the affected poetic style and take a malicious pleasure in thwarting the discourse which, by the rhythm and range would ring too pure, too beautiful… Bernard Aimé, from thr liner notes

PERSONNEL:

MICHEL EDELIN, flute, alto flute alto, bass flute
JACQUES DI DONATO, bass clarinet, soprano saxophone
JEAN-JACQUES AVENEL, double bass
SIMON GOUBERT, drums

La Muse en Circuit, Alfortville, France, May 26th and 27th 2011

TRACKS:

01. Simon's Bubbles (4:53)
02. Danse avec l'Ours (4:49)
03. Old and Beautiful Story (6:45)
04. Tristezza Della Diva (4:10)
05. Listen an excerpt
06. Le Chat et la Souris (2:00)
07. Errance Carminée (6:18)
08. Jet Lag (5:50)
09. Tales of Seven Lizards (5:09)
10. Bailes de Tango (4:25)
11. Witches (4:18)
12. Listen an excerpt
13. Black Snow (4:01)