D'Agala Sylvie Courvoisier Trio, Drew Gress & Kenny Wollesen

• 1 Imprint Double 07:40
• 2 Bourgeois's Spider 07:32
• 3 Éclats for Ornette 04:14
• 4 Simone 04:01
• 5 Pierino porcospino 04:19
• 6 D'Agala 08:13
• 7 Circumbent 03:54
• 8 Fly Whisk 07:53
• 9 South Side Rules 06:23
• Total Runtime 54:09

Info zu D'Agala

Mit ihrem hochkarätigen Trio mit Drew Gress und Kenny Wollesen legt Sylvie Courvoisier ihr elftes Album auf Intakt Records vor: Intakt CD 300. In Courvoisiers Spiel und in ihren Kompositionen reflektiert sie neoklassische Einflüsse ebenso wie die europäische Improvisationsmusik und den experimentellen Nonkonformismus der New Yorker Downtown-Szene.

Die neun Stücke auf D'AGALA sind Personen gewidmet, die Courvoisier bewundert und beeinflusst haben. Das Titelstück ist der Pianistin Geri Allen gewidmet, ein anderes John Abercrombie und der französische Politikerin, Frauenrechtlerin und Holocaust-Überlebende Simone Veil. „Zwei Stücke sind für den Bildhauer Martin Puryear, der organische und geometrische Formen verschmilzt, und für Louise Bourgeois. Bei ‘Bourgeois’s Spiders’ spielt Courvoisier das ganze Klavier – sie zupft oder schlägt die Saiten im Inneren, spielt mit einer Hand innen und mit der anderen auf den Tasten, oder klappert auf dem Metallrahmen. Manchmal hört sich die Band an wie ein Trio von Schlagzeugern, so rhythmisch präzise", schreibt Kevin Whitehead in den Liner Notes und fügt hinzu: "Manche Pianisten nähern sich ihrem Instrument, als sei es eine Kathedrale. Sylvie Courvoisier behandelt es manchmal wie einen Spielplatz".

Sylvie Courvoisier, Klavier
Kenny Wollesen, Schlagzeug & Wollesonic
Drew Gress, Bass

Recorded June 22,2017, by Ryan Streber at Oktaven Audio, Mont Vernon, New York
Mixed September 25, 2017, by James Farber at Sear Sound Studio, New York City
Mastered by Scott Hull
Produced by Mark Feldman, Sylvie Courvoisier and Intakt Records, Patrik Landolt

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Sylvie Courvoisier
is a pianist, composer and improviser. Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, Courvoisier moved to New York in 1998 and has lived in Brooklyn since that time.

Courvoisier has led multiple groups over the years and has recorded 8 albums as a band leader and 50 albums (25 as a co-leader and 25 as a side-person) for different labels, notably ECM, Tzadik and Intakt Records. .

She has been commissioned to write music for concerts, radio, dance and theater. Since 1996, she has been touring widely with her own groups and as a side person in USA, Canada, Japan, Australia and Europe.

Courvoisier has performed and recorded with John Zorn, Mark Feldman, Yusef Lateef, Ikue Mori, Tony Oxley, Mary Halvorson, Ingrid Laubrock, Tim Berne, Joey Baron, Joëlle Léandre, Herb Robertson, Butch Morris, Evan Parker, Ellery Eskelin, Fred Frith, Nate Wooley, Tomazs Stanko, Susie Ibarra, Wadada Leo Smith and the flamenco dancer Israel Galvan among others.

Since 1998 Courvoisier has performed regularly SOLO and in DUO with Mark Feldman. Currently, she is the leader of her own TRIO with Kenny Wollesen and Drew Gress. Courvoisier is a co-leader of the Miller's Tale QUARTET with Evan Parker, Ikue Mori and Mark Feldman. Since 2000, she has been a member of Mephista, an improvising collective trio with Ikue Mori and Susie Ibarra. Courvoisier regularly performs in a number of John Zorn's groups and compositional projects including Cobra and the Bagatelle Marathon.

Since 2010, she has been working as a pianist and composer for flamenco dancer Israel Galvan's project "LA CURVA" with more than 150 performances around the world. Galvan and Courvoisier are working on a new project called CAST-A-NET with Evan Parker, Mark Feldman and Ikue Mori which will debut in the summer of 2018.

Her most recent albums include her trio D'AGALA on Intakt (2018) with Kenny Wollesen and Drew Gress; her duo with Mary Halvorson CROP CIRCLES on Relative Pitch Records (2017); MILLER'S TALE, a collective quartet with Mark Feldman, Ikue Mori, and Evan Parker on Intakt (2016); and SALT TASK a collective trio with Chris Corsano and Nate Wooley on Relative Pitch Records (2016).

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