Featuring: Daunik Lazro
Daunik Lazro - baritone saxophone
Jouk Minor - contrabass sarrusophone
Thierry Madiot - bass trombone, telescopic tubes
David Chiésa - 5 strings double bass (left channel)
Louis-Michel Marion - 5 strings double bass (right channel)
Franpi Barriaux - Citizen Jazz
Entirely dedicated to sound, the quintet that recorded Sonoris Causa almost nineteen years ago plunges us into abysses of sensations where the swollen, rumbling and moving bass like thick waves is at the center of the debates. Better than at the center, in fact: at the controls, even at the epicentre. While the two double bass players Louis-Michel Marion and David Chiesa each occupy a channel, Jouk Minor 's double bass sarrusophone rumbles alongside Thierry Madiot 's trombone . Sarrusophone? The Aveyron saxophone has a sound apart, hoarse, pinched, and this figure from the beginnings of French free with Vitet ( La Guêpe ) and Portal ( Splendid Yzlment ) is one of its rare masters. In a unique piece - although here divided into three parts - where the offset of the double basses creates a permanent movement, it is this completely unique sound which gives Sonoris Causa all its originality.
Jouk Minor can count at his side the baritone of Daunik Lazro, who one could not imagine far from these musicians. If he does not have the role of pugnacious architect that we know him for in recent years, his saxophone is a powerful ally in this alliance of basses. His breath causes tangents in the path drawn by the double basses. When the wave rises while Marion's bow, a powerful earthquake, shakes all the roots, it is Lazro who offers a deviation, a bridge thrown towards the other double bass. As for Madiot, he builds fleeting constructions whose frame paradoxically offers new reliefs; we do not know where to listen, which allows us to wander alongside the musicians, until the saving stridencies. Whistles welcomed by a rhythm captured by Madiot and engraved in marble by the two double basses.
This is a piece of freedom that NoBusiness Records invites us to, captured almost naturally by Jean-Marc Foussat. Very quickly, we recognize his skill, especially in the immense spectrum offered by the quintet. Sonoris Causa is a record that requires deep listening for all the finesse of the musicians to appear, well trained in the echo chamber of the double basses; the record is a skein that we never tire of unraveling. And which offers some very nice surprises.
