Lazro, Daunik / Benjamin Duboc / Didier Lasserre

Pourtant Les Cimes Des Arbres

Label: Dark Tree Records Country: France

"BENJAMIN DUBOC

Early on, in his family, he would hear music - jazz. He attends conservatory and is taught piano and clarinet, then double bass under the direction of Jean-François Jenny-Clark and Bernard Cazauran.

Out of adolescence: "Music and arts as a way of being". He's working with Gaël Mevel and Thierry Waziniak before joining Octopus with Benoist Raffin and Jobic Le Masson whom he meets in 1993 in Slovakia. From then on, he will relentlessly go from a project to another, from a meeting to another with numerous musicians: free jazz, european improv... In his works, he intends to shape time. He's known today as a very active improviser and composer of electroacoustic music in various contexts, medias and means of expression (music, dance, theatre, image...).

Improvised in France and Europe with... (among many) Jean-Luc Guionnet, Edward Perraud, Tom Chant, Bertrand Denzler, Michel Doneda, Oliver Lake, Didier Lasserre, Stéphane Rives, Joëlle Léandre, Henry Grimes, Roy Campbell, Jean-Luc Cappozzo, Mario Rechtern, Eric Zinman, Jobic Le Masson, Sunny Murray, Daunik Lazro, Itaru Oki, Hasse Poulsen, Makoto Sato, Rasul Siddik, Christine Wodrascka, Hilary Jeffery, Jack Wright.http://benjamin.duboc.free.fr/

DIDIER LASSERRE

Born in Bordeaux, France, march 1971. Started the drums at the age of sixteen, in order to live "something else ". After learning some drums rudiments in the local music school, he works essentially in autodidact, in order to find his own voice, based on a poetic approch. He teaches drums & leads improvision' workshop & master-classes. Works with painting, poetry, dance, super8 movies, photography. Co-creates Amor fati label with Mathieu Immer.

He uses to play with Beñat Achiary, Benjamin Duboc, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Seijiro Murayama, Laurent Pascal, Steve Dalachinsky, Joëlle Léandre, Michel Doneda, Mathias Pontévia, Niklas Barnö, Joel Grip, Daunik Lazro, Jobic Le Masson, Abdelhaï Bennani, Alan Silva, Edward Perraud, Sylvain Guérineau, Jean Rougier, Eric Zinman, Jean-Luc Capozzo, Itaru Oki, Rasul Siddik, Makoto Sato, Sabir Mateen.http://didierlasserre.free.fr/

DAUNIK LAZRO

The French saxophonist Daunik Lazro combines a tart, piercing tone with a quick mind, and flexible philosophy of music-making. His professional start was in the bassist Saheb Sarbib's orchestra, a relationship he maintained through most of the '70s, including three recordings.

His first steps playing his own music involved a radical resizing of the cast on stage, going from orchestra playing to solo saxophone concerts and duets. In the '80s he busily played with many on the European improvised music scene, including bassist Jean-Jacques Avenel, cellist Tristan Honsinger, violinist Carlos Zingaro, drummer Christian Rollet, saxophonist Evan Parker, trombonist George Lewis, bassist Joëlle Léandre and pianist Irène Schweizer.

In the mid '80s Lazro expanded his partnerships to include dance and theatre projects. He formed a particularly fine trio in 1987 with fellow saxophonist Michel Doneda and the brilliant percussionnist Lê Quan Ninh, playing at many of the major European festivals and also touring in Canada.Duets with the American free improviser Joe McPhee are a 1991 discographical highlight. In 1993 he started a quartet called Outlaws in Jazz with Jac Berrocal, Didier Levallet and Dennis Charles.

In 1995 he toured Europe in a triple threat combination with both McPhee and Parker, and the former artist also joined him in a quartet the following year with the superb British bassist Paul Rogers.

In 2000, he recorded " Zong Book " a solo album on alto and baritone saxophones. During the last decade he recorded and performed with the electroacoustic duo Kristoff K.Roll, vocalist Phil Minton and with different quartets: Aérolithes (Michel Doneda, Michael Nick and Laurent Hoevenaers), Rekmazladzep (Thierry Madiot, Dominique Répécaud and Camel Zekri), Qwat Neum Sixx (Sophie Agnel, Michael Nick and Jérôme Notinger)."

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