Characters On A Wall - Vinyl Edition - ECM: 0804585 - Vinyl Record

This latest work casts a wider net in terms of location, though sonically it gets definition from its carefully restricted chamber music-style set-up. ‘L’heure Pasolini’ takes life from a Pignon-Ernest... — Jazzwise, February 2020, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 25th Oct 2019
Catalogue No: 0804585
Label: ECM

L’heure Pasolini

Shadows and Lines

La dame de Martigues

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Esquisse 1

Prison

Esquisse 2

Darwich dans la ville

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Louis Sclavis’s 13th ECM recording finds the French clarinetist drawing inspiration from two sources - the street art of Ernest Pignon-Ernest, and the interpretive originality of a splendid new quartet.

Pignon-Ernest’s works were previously the subject of Sclavis’s highly acclaimed 2002 recording Napoli’s Walls. This time Sclavis looks at a broader range of the artist’s in situ collages from Ramallah to Rome, in search of “a dynamic, a movement that will give birth to a rhythm, an emotion, a song.”

In the Sclavis group, gifted bassist Sarah Murcia and expressive drummer Christophe Lavergne join inventive pianist Benjamjn Moussay (a key collaborator on Sources and Salt and Silk Melodies) making this the first time Sclavis has explored - in characteristically individual fashion - the classic jazz format of reeds, piano, bass and drums on an ECM disc.

Recorded at Studios La Buissonne in the South of France and produced by Manfred Eicher.

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February 2020

This latest work casts a wider net in terms of location, though sonically it gets definition from its carefully restricted chamber music-style set-up. ‘L’heure Pasolini’ takes life from a Pignon-Ernest image of the Italian filmmaker carrying his own body, Pietà-like, while ‘Darwich dans la ville’ has as its inspiration a picture of the Palestinian poet displayed in Ramallah. It’s an album full of atmosphere and invention.

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