Alexandra Grimal

Alexandra Grimal - Bambu (2017) {Ayler Records}  Music

Posted by tiburon at May 13, 2018
Alexandra Grimal - Bambu (2017) {Ayler Records}

Alexandra Grimal - Bambu (2017) {Ayler Records}
EAC 1.3 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 300dpi | 310MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 157MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Avant-Garde Jazz

An unusual and captivating work from the trio of saxophonist Alexandra Grimal, double bassist Benjaim Duboc, and cellist Valentin Ceccaldi, leading their album with tracks from "Respirer l'ombre" by Giuseppe Penone "spontaneously used without permission but with great admiration," leading to powerful and unpredictable directions in free improvisation; excellent.

Alexandra Grimal - Kanku (2017) {ONJ Records}  Music

Posted by tiburon at May 1, 2018
Alexandra Grimal - Kanku (2017) {ONJ Records}

Alexandra Grimal - Kanku (2017) {ONJ Records}
EAC 1.3 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 300dpi | 293MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 154MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Avant-Garde Jazz, Fusion

Cette suite d'environ 55 minutes est une sorte d'opéra de poche pour trois musicien(ne)s, issu(e)s de l'Orchestre National de Jazz dirigé par Olivier Benoit. Elle avait été créée en avril 2016 dans le cadre du festival 'Jazz Or Jazz' d'Orléans, et commandée par la scène Nationale d'Orléans, dans les locaux de laquelle elle a été enregistrée l'année suivante pour ce disque (publié avec le concours du label MFA-Musique Française d'Aujord'hui). La forme générale mêle des espaces écrits et des plages improvisées, entre lesquels le tuilage se fait en une sorte de fondu-enchaîné. La voix d'Alexandra Grimal paraît être à la fois le déclencheur du discours et de la forme, tandis que les appeaux, les effets électroniques, et surtout le saxophone en seraient la substance matérielle, l'horizon concret où l'abstraction prend corps.

Alexandra Grimal & Joëlle Léandre - Désordre (2019)  Music

Posted by Domestos at July 13, 2020
Alexandra Grimal & Joëlle Léandre - Désordre (2019)

Alexandra Grimal & Joëlle Léandre - Désordre (2019)
WEB FLAC (tracks) ~ 215.09 Mb | 54:19 | Cover
Free Improvisation | Label: Montagne Noire (France) - MN 1

A playful, thoughtful, and quick witted encounter between Egyptian saxophonist Alexandra Grimal and French double bassist Joelle Leandre, at times each on voice, emphasizing a "desired disorder" in their approach to instant composition and declaring that neither determines the course of the music, but that they follow it simply as the music decides; wonderful.

Movézom - Revisiting The Trane (2018)  Music

Posted by El Misha at May 9, 2018
Movézom - Revisiting The Trane (2018)

Movézom - Revisiting The Trane (2018)
Jazz | FLAC (tracks) | Cover | 43:13 | 272 MB + 5% Recovery
Label: Futura & Marge | Tracks: 11 | Rls.date: 2018

Re-weaving link blesses between the jazz and the hip-hop, Movezom explores the furrow draw by John Coltrane by conferring on him an urban and current dimension. Voices and texts of MC' S here come to resound in the quoting of saxophones, ropes, of battery and of machines by embracing big themes with mark the work of the saxophonist. Compositions, sailing between beats hip-hop, Free jazz and contemporary music, are so much occasions to discover or to rediscover the most emblematic pieces of Coltrane, those notably last period of its life. Revisiting The Trane is vibrating homage to one of the biggest musicians of last century. It is also a disc which questions the today's jazz across its filiation with the rap and tries to give sense to the cultural inheritance of a music resolutely turned to future.
Olivier Benoit, Orchestre National De Jazz - Europa: Paris (2014) [Official Digital Download 24/88]

Olivier Benoit, Orchestre National De Jazz - Europa: Paris (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2kHz | Time - 92:48 minutes | 1,73 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

To inaugurate his urban investigations Olivier Benoit naturally chose Paris, a city he knows intimately for having lived and worked there for twenty years; the musicians in his orchestra have an intimate knowledge of Paris as well, most of them being Parisians by adoption. In this sense, EUROPA Paris intends to be a “manifesto” for the French capital’s artistic effervescence, as Paris continues to attract artists of all horizons (both geographical and aesthetic) who dissolve into a crucible whose diversity and inventiveness are extraordinary. Creating EUROPA PARIS unquestionably put the seal on the new group, bonding its members together in a symbol of the capital’s vitality!
Olivier Benoit, Orchestre National de Jazz - Europa: Oslo (2017) [Official Digital Download]

Olivier Benoit, Orchestre National de Jazz - Europa: Oslo (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time - 69:03 minutes | 762 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Whether appearing solo as a guitarist or leading orchestras whose personnel and size couldn’t vary more — they range from the quartet to the big-band —, Olivier Benoit’s sole obsession has always been to further his explorations of territories still barely represented on the official map of contemporary music.
Olivier Benoit & Orchestre National De Jazz - Europa Rome (2016) {ONJ Records 444444}

Olivier Benoit & Orchestre National De Jazz - Europa Rome (2016) {ONJ Records 444444}
FLAC (tracks) - 16bit/44.1kHz - Official Digital Download (qobuz.com) -> 372 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 155 Mb
Full Artwork (jpg+pdf) -> 22 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 2016 Onjazz Records | 444444
Jazz / Modern Big Band / Progressive Jazz

The third album of the ONJ offers an exciting foray into contemporary music. Through two original pieces written specially for the Orchestra, Benjamin de la Fuente and Andrea Agostini deliver a highly personal vision of Rome that borrows from souvenirs and reawakened emotions, and from their own intimate rapport with the city. Two contrasted works that oscillate between high-voltage outbursts, irresistible orchestral masses, and more melancholy, intimate passages, improvisations and rock explosions included… EUROPA ROME, a new album guaranteed to muddy the trail of music genres!

Isabelle Olivier - Don't Worry, Be HaRpy Vol. 2 (2016)  Music

Posted by Domestos at Feb. 27, 2019
Isabelle Olivier - Don't Worry, Be HaRpy Vol. 2 (2016)

Isabelle Olivier - Don't Worry, Be HaRpy Vol. 2 (2016)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue, log) ~ 285.74 Mb | 48:39 | Covers
Modern Creative, Contemporary Jazz, Fusion | Label: Enja Records/Yellowbird - enja 9743

Isabelle Olivier Professional musician for more than 20 years, performing and recording with many great musicians such as Beñat Achiary, Michel Bénita, Thomas Beuf, David Binney, Marc Buronfosse, Tommy Crane, Tam de Villiers, Catherine Delaunay, Jacques Dor, Peter Erskine, Alexandra Grimal, Brigitte Jacquot, David Linx, Didier Lockwood, Fabrice Moreau, Louis Moutin, Eivind Opsvick, Monica Passos, Joe Quitzke, Johan Renard, Olivier Sens, Sébastien Texier, David Venitucci, Norma Winstone…, and many other in more than 20 countries.
Orchestre National de Jazz & Olivier Benoit - Europa: Berlin (2015) [Official Digital Download]

Orchestre National de Jazz & Olivier Benoit - Europa: Berlin (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44.1 kHz | Time - 73:37 minutes | 844 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital Booklet

After Paris, Olivier Benoit turned to an exploration of Berlin for the second chapter of Europa. Paying even more heed to its architecture, this time the composer centred his efforts on history and memory of the city with a population that was young, creative and cosmopolitan. Declined in dense compositions with lyrical imprints, this shimmering portrait questions the various manners in which the Germans have confronted their recent past. Olivier Benoit captured the heterogeneous spirit of the city with contrasted music that makes brilliant use of all the orchestra’s resources. Faithful to his singular compositional methods associating the dynamics of timbres with a true “feel” for architecture in motion and a hypnotic rhythmical pulse, with Europa Berlin the composer opened up new perspectives in both sound and form, and which drew on the different musical currents that “inhabit” the German capital: minimalist music, free jazz, progressive rock and electronic music.