rogueart jazz

Sylvain Kassap: clarinets | Ramon Lopez: drums | Claude Tchamitchian: double bass | Denis Lavant: voice | Franck Médioni: jazz poem

Recorded on September 2008 at La Muse en Circuit (Alfortville, France) by Julien Guinard. Mixing and mastering: Christophe Hauser. Liner notes: Yves Buin, Christian Désagulier, Christian Tarting. Photographs: Christian Ducasse. Produceur: Michel Dorbon

Tracklist: 1. For John Coltrane (2:58) 2. Le son ? Le souffle ? (0:53) 3. L’infini intérieur (3:53) 4. Buissons sonores (5:15) 5. Prométhée défié (8:38) 6. Instants tannés (4:31) 7. Incantations (0:14) 8. Un beau cauchemar (5:39) 9. Celui qui a vu Dieu mourir (1:31) 10. Tous ces sons volés aux muses (3:11) 11. Tout un monde (9:38) 12. Libre erance (4:19) 13. A l’obscur, à la mort (4:11) 14. Au détour de l’instant (1:40) 15. Contre-jour (9:36) 16. Quelle rive ? (6:14)

…Questions: none of Coltrane’s albums bears this title.

And somehow all of his albums do. All are clearly subjected to the ramified, plural, moving, exuberant, augmentative interrogation, that they left us, as if panicked or distraught. Such trust. A unique manner, always beyond and ahead of itself. A haunted, questioning manner.

Inheriting a question is, in many ways, convenient; it’s called mysticism, and in the end, there’s something in it for everybody. To see oneself or live as the guardian of a range of questions certainly can’t be read on the same stave. It creates different obligations. Requires, in more ways than one, writing – taking part. As, here, Franck Médioni and Lavant’s voice, or Sylvain Kassap and Ramon Lopez, and Claude Tchamitchian… — Chrisitan Tarting, excerpt from the liner notes

Sylvain Kassap

Ramon Lopez | Photo by Helene Collon

Claude Tchamitchian

Denis Lavant

Franck Médioni

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