bruno duplant, guitars(most old & sometimes prepared), homemade lap steel, balalaïka (with banjo strings), double bass, cheap violin, old tenor banjo, clarinet, harmonica...
+ people who want to play with me like Rachael Wadham, Kevin Cosgrove, Lee Noyes, Phil Hargreaves, Paulo Chagas, Qai Fi, Phillipe Lenglet, Massimo Magee...
Here my first trio with the great Phil Hargreaves & Lee Noyes, just out on www.insubordinations.net/releases cdr07.html and free to dowload or buy
two great reviews on http://grisli.canalblog.com/ by Pierre Lemarchand :
"Malachi, c’est Malachi Favors, contrebassiste de l’Art Ensemble of Chicago depuis sa création en 1967 jusqu’à son décès en 2004. Ce disque est donc un hommage au musicien disparu. Mais le propos n’est pas tant d’emprunter les voies musicales arpentées par Favors que de perpétuer son esprit : celui de la recherche d’un fragile équilibre, d’une musique sur le fil. Il s’agit avec Favors, comme ici avec le contrebassiste Bruno Duplant et ses compagnons, de tenir le jazz à distance mais de rester en son champ, de rester exigent en même temps qu’accessible. Ici, comme là, le contrebassiste est à la fois celui qui emmène les autres musiciens dans des directions aventureuses tout en demeurant un point de repère, un pivot. Ici, c’est lui qui créé le climat, donne le « ton » de chacun des morceaux de ce disque, refusant souvent à sa contrebasse toute résonance, la rendant sèche, acérée, vacillante en même temps que déterminée.
La musique jouée par Bruno Duplant, Phil Hargreaves (saxophones) et Lee Noyes (percussions), est une musique de suspens, où les sons émis ne semblent prendre toute leur valeur qu’en tant que signes annonciateurs de ce qui va suivre. En témoignent les titres des morceaux qui, lus à la suite, offrent un poème. Les trois hommes donnent vie à une musique de l’oubli du monde présent et du temps qui passe – musique de l’intériorité, tout en retenue, à la manière de fantômes ou de lambeaux de mélodies convoqués par cette configuration en trio vieille comme le monde : peaux + souffle + cordes. Elémentaire."
and a second one on the great http://freejazz-stef.blogspot.com/ by Stef :
"This is a piece of modern jazz that I really like. A sax trio that improvises freely, without melody and rhythm, yet with a very controlled and sensitive approach to their music. It all sounds vulnerable and hesititating, which is surprising for musicians that have their background in experimental electronic music and punk, but who play purely acoustic here. The trio consists of Phil Hargreaves on sax, Lee Noyes on percussion and Bruno Duplant on bass. All pieces fall within the same mode of playing: soft, slow, with lots of open spaces and with the three instruments filling the open space with pointillistic phrases and sounds, but sufficiently extended to create a great sense of lyricism. Total free form often leads to a level of abstraction that makes listening difficult, but that is less the case here : the music flows organically, through very concentrated interaction, with lots of respect for each other and the fragile music they create. Yet it intense throughout, and that's possibly the greatest result of the music : the slow tension full of contradictions between freedom and form, between openness and density, between avant-garde and sometimes simple phrases. But it works. It works really well.
This album is available for free download on the internet, or in hard copy in limited edition. In my humble opinion, this again demonstrates the lack of knowledge of many labels. This trio deserves to be officially released. While the summer jazz festivals are crammed with commercial artists who are hard to classify as jazz, the real creative jazz artists are kept far away from the undiscerning multitudes. Too bad, too bad. How can we bring the new and creative jazz under a broader attention? It was the objective of this blog, but we're preaching to the converted..."
Listen and download from Insubordinations.
here my new project, a duo with kevin cosgrove just out on ikuisuus label !!!
HOBO DUO: Across Great Distances - CDR (Ikuisuus, 2009)
1. ask the dust
2. now, listening to the world
3. things like this and like that
4. up before dawn
5. forget the time
6. thinking about nothing
7. you can't always be on top!
8. listening carefully
[total: 42:59]
"The spirit of Derek Bailey with Han Bennink sending each other their
two “Post Improvisation” duos on old tapes by mail,
The spririt of the great & forgotten Harry Partch
with all his custom-made instruments sounding so strange & so well to my ears,
especially the first time,
The spirit of the Blues, not the Delta one, a French one & an Indian
one maybe,
The spirit of some writers, Conrad, Kerouac, Camus, Toole, Volodine,
Ogawa, etc.
The spirit of the Instruments in my hands,
The spirit of the living & the dead and much more still..." - Bruno Duplant
also a new cd out, my duo with lee 'the master' noyes on a beard of snails label
ABOS2-006 Lee Noyes & Bruno Duplant "This is Our Post-Exoticism" CD-R
A stunning long distance (New Zealand/France) collaboration, spanning aleatoric acid blues, to deconstructed rustic folk, to jagged-edged unrock 'n' roll, of an almost acoustic-White- Light/White-Heat-for-the-21st-Century variety. Comes in a 13x16½ cm envelope with ol' time artwork. (Can you get high smoking palm leaves?)
bruno duplant is also 'a man & a guitar' a folk solo project...
Here, 2 pieces made with the great Kevin Cosgrove on percussions 'ask the dust' & 'thinking about nothing' (from a new cdr on http://www.ikuisuus.net/ as HOBO DUO)...
New tracks here, one made with the exceptional Rachael Wadham 'one more twist...' & 'scribblers', two other, a duo with the wonderful Lee Noyes 'difference 4' & 'no master, noservant' (an album just out on http://www.bsbta.com/). two new pieces made on http://www.cadavreesquis.whi-music.co.uk/, one with Massimo Magee on sax, Qai-Fi on cello & I on prepared guitar, the second with The Boo on strange percussion, Lee Noyes on drums & I on electric guitar...
PEACE & ENJOY!!!
Merci pour le lien, super Malachi ! Beau projet, bon son ! Je vais écouter le reste. Pas d'enregistrement solo pour le moment, mais j'y pense sérieusement, je te tiendrai au courant. à bientôt jean
Merci d'être venu faire un tour sur notre page. Bravo pour la plastique sonore et la corporalité musicale de vos oeuvres, avec en prime la délicieuse impression d'être suspendu à un fil, qui pourrait se rompre à chaque instant.
Hi Bruno! Long time didn't keep in touch! I just post a new prelude recently, now prelude set has been complete, you may listen to the whole thing without stoping now. I hope you like it. Cheers!
Hey man, how's it going? The button's not working at all it would apear, just trying to get it sorted at the moment... I'll let you know when it's done!
Yes, let's make some music. If you want to send me some high quality MP3's of some ideas, it's probably best to send them to kabrummer@live.co.uk
Merci beaucoup Bruno! You are such a creative composer, I found an interesting sound and idea from your music! I'm planning to attend the "Acanthe" composition workshop next year, maybe we can try to meet that time! ^^!
Hi, great idea! I might just attack some of the banjo track with my mandolinbanjo :-) We'll see, time will be compressed now in the beginning after the holidays at work.... And yeah, I listened to those track with Lee and the saxplayer at insubordination. Nice sort of free jazz flow of that old melodic sort. Not many do that anymore. You guys did it online?
Soloalbum (Blowing the Wind) will be released as the video edition online by Compost & Height just soon. I will have a go at releasing the CD version myself. probably in tandem with new stuff I've been doing the last month and maybe a compilation of colabs over the last years....
Keep up and I'm sure we'll have the opporrtunity to play some day!
Bonjour my friend..i like really more Malachi..u never stop to surprise me..all the best to u and hugs from the desappeared man(..i'm near to return..)!!
J'ai l'impression que je n'ai pas fini d'écouter "Malachi". je suis heureux de découvrir, ici, tes autres projets. A bientôt et merci pour cette aventureuse musique,
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