Michel Portal

Michel Portal - MP85 (2021)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at March 4, 2021
Michel Portal - MP85 (2021)

Michel Portal - MP85 (2021)
FLAC tracks | 49:51 | 298 Mb
Genre: Jazz / Label: Label Bleu

Un album impressionnant de bout en bout, et totalement inattendu après un peu plus de dix ans de silence de cet excellent saxophoniste à l’illustre carrière. Mais il est important de savoir comment est né ce nouveau quintet…
Cela s’est passé en 2018, dans le cadre de l’Europa Jazz, ce festival où l’on a souvent retrouvé les mêmes invités d’années en années, ce qui a permis de tisser des liens forts entre les artistes et de proposer en 2018 à Michel Portal une “Carte Blanche”.Sur MP85 les arrangements sont particulièrement soignés, la rythmique envoûtante et les claviers remarquablement festifs. Le tromboniste Nils Wogram est au sommet de sa forme et le batteur juste totalement incroyable!

Michel Portal - MP85 (2021)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Nov. 29, 2022
Michel Portal - MP85 (2021)

Michel Portal - MP85 (2021)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 298 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 114 Mb | 00:49:53
Jazz, Post-Bop | Label: Label Bleu

This record was made in very peculiar conditions, after two long months of lockdown. With the members of the new quintet eager to play music but with mixed feelings of joy, fear of the virus and unvoluntary distrust of the other one suddenly thrown back to their state of "menacing stranger".
Michel Portal & Michel Dalberto - Berg - Brahms - Poulenc - Schumann: Sonatas for Clarinet and Piano (2024) [24/88]

Michel Portal & Michel Dalberto - Berg - Brahms - Poulenc - Schumann: Sonatas for Clarinet and Piano (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88,2 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 69:51 minutes | 1,1 GB
Classical | Label: La Dolce Volta, Official Digital Download

This album takes us on a journey through several different eras of Romanticism, from its origins to its twilight, from Schumann to Poulenc by way of Brahms and Berg. It is also the story of a long friendship and artistic collaboration . . . A declared enemy of anything that smacks of routine, the clarinettist Michel Portal looks after his unpredictability the way an astronaut looks after his oxygen supply. His almost organic curiosity, his need for exchange, reacts here to an exciting encounter with the pianist Michel Dalberto. The clarinet sonatas by Brahms and Poulenc, Schumann’s Phantasiestücke and Berg’s Four Pieces are all seen in a new perspective at La Dolce Volta. Every Michel Portal recording is a passport to wisdom, a term that for him goes hand in hand with speed, joy and exultation. Eternal youth!
Michel Portal, Cherubini-Quartett - Mozart: Quintette avec Clarinette, K.581, Trio "des Quilles", K.498 (1995)

Michel Portal, Gérard Caussé, Jean-Philippe Collard, Cherubini-Quartett - Mozart: Quintette avec Clarinette, K.581, Trio "des Quilles", K.498 (1995)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 196 Mb | Total time: 52:17 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI Classics | # 5 55389 2 | Recorded: 1995

La clarinette, instrument de prédilection de Mozart lui a inspiré deux partitions de chambre exceptionnelles, dont "Le Trio des quilles". La légende veut que Mozart l'ait conçu pendant qu'il jouait aux quilles avec quelques amis. Dans cette oeuvre, on atteint la plus haute conception de la musique de chambre : un équilibre parfait entre les parties, une grande homogénéité de timbres. Cette version interprétée par des artistes de renommée internationale est vraiment très expressive.
Michel Portal, Michel Dalberto - Berg ∙ Brahms ∙ Poulenc ∙ Schumann: Sonatas for Clarinet and Piano (2024)

Michel Portal, Michel Dalberto - Berg ∙ Brahms ∙ Poulenc ∙ Schumann: Sonatas for Clarinet and Piano (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet | 1:09:52 | 295 Mb
Genre: Classical

This album takes us on a journey through several different eras of Romanticism, from its origins to its twilight, from Schumann to Poulenc by way of Brahms and Berg. It is also the story of a long friendship and artistic collaboration . . . A declared enemy of anything that smacks of routine, the clarinettist Michel Portal looks after his unpredictability the way an astronaut looks after his oxygen supply. His almost organic curiosity, his need for exchange, reacts here to an exciting encounter with the pianist Michel Dalberto. The clarinet sonatas by Brahms and Poulenc, Schumann’s Phantasiestücke and Berg’s Four Pieces are all seen in a new perspective at La Dolce Volta. Every Michel Portal recording is a passport to wisdom, a term that for him goes hand in hand with speed, joy and exultation. Eternal youth!
Michel Portal, Stephen Kent, Mino Cinelu - Burundi (2000) {PAO Records}

Michel Portal, Stephen Kent, Mino Cinelu - Burundi (2000) {PAO Records}
EAC 0.99pb4 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 300dpi | 421MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 180MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Ethnic Fusion

Cette année là, notre compteur affiche un nombre vertigineux d'heures passées à nous laisser bercer par le bourdonnement du didgeridoo de Stephen Kent. Si certains morceaux comme impro évoquent inévitablement le carnet de route de Romano, Sclavis et Texier, la nature même de la section rythmique (percussions, didgeridoo) permet à l'ensemble de s'en émanciper. Michel Portal retrouve ici un vieux complice: Mino Cinelu (turbulence, men's land).

Michel Portal - Minneapolis (2001) {Universal}  Music

Posted by tiburon at Jan. 20, 2021
Michel Portal - Minneapolis (2001) {Universal}

Michel Portal - Minneapolis (2001) {Universal}
EAC 1.0b1 | FLAC tracks level 8 | Cue+Log+M3U | Full Scans 300dpi | 604MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 165MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Jazz, Post-Bop

A Minneapolis, Michel Portal a osé. Osé comme bien peu de ses confrères improvisateurs hexagonaux – et même américains ! Rendez-vous compte : pour la première fois, ce poly-souffleur virtuose doublé d’un bandéoniste attachant a confronté ses chants à la beauté tourmentée aux éclectismes en tous genres d’une joyeuse bande de créateurs non profilés : Vernon Reid (ex-Living Colour, Tony Hymas, ex-Jeff Beck, Sonny Thompson et Michael Bland, ex-compagnons de roots du NPG de Prince).

Quatuor Ebene feat. Michel Portal - Eternal Stories (2017)  Music

Posted by SERTiL at May 5, 2017
Quatuor Ebene feat. Michel Portal - Eternal Stories (2017)

Quatuor Ebene feat. Michel Portal - Eternal Stories
Classical, Jazz | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 68:45 min | 159 MB
Label: Erato | Tracks: 12 | Rls.date: 2017

Eternal Stories might just turn out to be one of the best albums that Portal has ever recorded. He could well have been thinking of his beloved Charlie Parker, who in 1949 realised his dream of making a recording with a string section. Eternal Stories is not some kind of attempt at a remake, but comprises completely new pieces and two new arrangements of classic Portal numbers, a late work by Piazzolla and astonishing contributions from members of Quatuor Ébène itself.

Michel Portal - Dejarme Solo (1979) {Dreyfus Jazz}  Music

Posted by tiburon at March 30, 2018
Michel Portal - Dejarme Solo (1979) {Dreyfus Jazz}

Michel Portal - Dejarme Solo (1979) {Dreyfus Jazz}
EAC 0.95b4 | FLAC Image level 8 | Cue+Log | Scans 600dpi | 163MB + 5% Recovery
MP3 CBR 320 Kbps | 75MB + 5% Recovery
Genre: Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz

Dejarme solo! est un album de Michel Portal, sorti en 1980 et comportant 8 morceaux. Pour cet album, il a utilisé la technique du re-recording : Michel Portal est le seul musicien de tout l'album, il s'est enregistré sur plusieurs pistes pour à la fin toutes les mixer. Sur cet album, il joue du saxophone alto, du saxophone ténor, de la clarinette, de la clarinette basse, de la clarinette contrebasse, du tenora, du soprano, du sopranino, du bandonéon et des percussions.
Quatuor Ébène & Michel Portal - Eternal Stories (2017) [Official Digital Download]

Quatuor Ébène & Michel Portal - Eternal Stories (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44.1 & 48 kHz | Time - 68:45 minutes | 791 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

The New York Times has described the French ensemble as “a string quartet that can easily morph into a jazz band” and its recordings of Haydn, Bartók, Brahms and Schubert have been praised all over the world. Portal and the Ébène first played together in Paris in 2013, where Piazzolla’s compositions were also on the programme, prompting Le Monde to speak of “a significant lesson, a superb encounter, a real conversation.”