Jericho Sinfonia, by Christophe Monniot

Jericho Sinfonia

by Christophe Monniot

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Dr. "Buzz" Frenzy (Matthew J Hesse) Compelling work that resists easy classification. Progressive in a way that jazz, classical and performance art lovers should connect to. It somehow reminds me subtly of both Escalator Over the Hill and Der Mann im Fahrstuhl, with a sizeable ensemble (13 musicians) and spoken nearly entirely in French (and a touch of German). Captivating and engrossing: it first secured my attention, then held it, in both intellectually fathomable and then utterly mysterious ways. An hour I'll easily repeat.

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Can This Even Be Called Music? Through spoken excerpts (in French) and a multitude of avant-garde jazz compositions, the album conveys a story that is not clear from the start, but that gets clearer as it goes, until the eventual climax and end of everything. That album was fascinating!
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	1.	Veni Veni Emmanuel 03:16
	2.	Pré-Hymne 03:03
	3.	Hymne 1 - Fil Rouge 1 09:03
	4.	Paix Nombres 08:05
	5.	Hymne 2 - Fil Rouge 2 08:07
	6.	Sonne, Heure ! 05:43
	7.	Hymne 3 07:42
	8.	Fil Rouge 3 01:10
	9.	Ultime Atome 09:05
	10.	Dans Cité 11:21

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Christophe Monniot, sopranino & alto saxophones, composition
Sylvie Gasteau, sound design & libretto
Roberto Negro, piano
Valentin Ceccaldi, cello, electric fretless bass, percussion
Adrien Chennebault, drums
Florian Satche, drums, percussion
Guillaume Aknine, electric guitar
Quentin Biardeau, soprano & tenor saxophones
Gabriel Lemaire, alto & barytone saxophones
Jean-Baptiste Lacou, trombone
Alexis Persigan, trombone
Yoann Loustalot, trumpet, cornet
Alan Regardin, trumpet

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released April 12, 2018

Recorded at "La Fabrique", Meung-sur-Loire, France,
December 27-30, 2015. Produced by Christophe Monniot.
Recording, mix and mastering by Matthieu Pion.
Cover artwork: Stéphane Berland.

This recording is a real novelty. Not only chronologically. This is a novelty in the purest sense, in the sense of a genuine rarity. Here Christophe Monniot tries and succeeds in what has been little attempted in recent years in the world of jazz. What does this singularity consist of? We can mention three aspects that characterize it: a concept album, very rich materials and the spiritual dimension.
Inspired by an inner necessity, Christophe Monniot and his collaborators have elaborated a very personal music, even revolutionary, and as such disturbing. It is a music that resists its own reification, it refuses to be an object and presents itself to us as a subject. It engages in an interaction, it solicits an answer and constitutes, by this personal challenge and this respect of the listener, a prophetic and essential voice in jazz today.
(from Michel Petrossian’s liner notes)

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