The bass player KERECKI plays a tribute to the electronic French Touch music (Daft Punk, Air, …) with his quartet. The new album "FRENCH TOUCH" will be released in September 18 (Incises), it follows "Nouvelle Vague" (2014,) the previous award-winning album of the band now featuring saxophonist Emile Parisien (winner of Victoires du jazz and ECHO Jazz 2017), drummer Fabrice Moreau and pianist Jozef Dumoulin.
French bassist Stéphane Kerecki, who launches this album at London’s Pizza Express Jazz Club on 15 June (featuring his trio with the excellent guest Tony Malaby as an extra sax), is one of the fascinating European jazz prospects of the 21st century.
We have decided to choose PARIS, glorious & mysterious, as a starting point of our compositions. The omnipresence of rhythm in the sounds of the city made us want to base this record on original grooves of drums & percussions, and then to give free rein to our impressions and images of PARIS. We have thus rendered 24 hours of the life of an imaginary observer in PARIS into music.
A belated follow-up to bass clarinettist Thomas Savy’s earlier album Archipel with the same line-up released by the Nocturne label eight years ago it’s an immersive listen with the emphasis firmly on highly structured broadly thematic compositions with an ultimately sunny disposition that allow the players to stretch out. With guitarist Michael Felberbaum, who takes a peach of a solo on the third track ‘Archipel Bleu’, pianist/Rhodes player Pierre de Bethmann the first input we hear at the beginning of the brooding ‘No Time, No Time’, bassist Stéphane Kerecki, and drummer Karl Jannuska there’s plenty going on here with lively tempi, strong interpretative resource on Savy’s part (roughly in the Klaus Gesing domain) on a selection of compositions that include Savy’s own tunes.