• DIGIPACK EDITION

Led by the French pianist Eve Risser, the Red Desert Orchestra is a hybrid formation in which musicians from Europe and Africa rub shoulders in the service of music resolutely haunting, magnifying the polyrhythmic intertwining to the point of vertigo through a writing as demanding in its form as resolute in its ambitions. Stakeholder of ten different configurations, from solo to large ensemble, Eve Risser develops in this context her talents as a composer by adding the sounds of balafons to her orchestra, djembes and bara, from West Africa. Lines and sounds weave in tireless hypnotic loops that lead the listener to a spiritual and nomadic experience, from which brilliant soloists emerge.

PERSONNEL:

• Eve Risser - (composition, piano, voice)
• Antonin-Tri Hoang - (alto sax, analog synth)
• Sakina Abdou - (tenor sax)
• Grégoire Tirtiaux - (baritone sax, qarqabas)
• Nils Ostendorf - (trumpet, analog synth)
• Mathias Müller - (trombone)
• Tatiana Paris - (electric guitar, voice)
• Ophélia Hié - (balafon, bara, voice)
• Mélissa Hié - (balafon, djembe, voice)
• Fanny Lasfargues - (electro-acoustic bass)
• Oumarou Bambara - (djembe, bara)
• Emmanuel Scarpa - (drums, voice)

TRACKS:

• 01.INTRO
• 02.SO (horse)
• 03.SA (snake)
• 04.DESERT ROUGE (red desert)
• 05.GÄMSE (chamois)
• 06.HARMATTAN (dry wind from Sahara)
• 07.PETIT SOIR (twilight)
• 08.SOYAYYA