Chimaera (24bit Hi-Res 96khz), by SYLVIE COURVOISIER feat. Wadada Leo Smith, Christian Fennesz, D. Gress, N. Wooley, K. Wollesen

Chimaera (24bit Hi-Res 96khz)

by SYLVIE COURVOISIER feat. Wadada Leo Smith, Christian Fennesz, D. Gress, N. Wooley, K. Wollesen

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Ralf Wacker Now the Hi-Res download is 24 bit 96 kHz. The wrong zip file was linked at the first days after release. Thanks for the correction.

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1.	Le pavot rouge 21:21	info	buy track
2.	La joubarbe aragnaineuse 13:32	info	buy track
3.	Partout des prunelles flamboient 08:23	info	buy track
4.	La chimère aux yeux verts 15:00	info	buy track
5.	Annâo 08:40	info	buy track
6.	Le sabot de Venus 19:09	info	buy track

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Chimaera is the newest ensemble of pianist and composer Sylvie Courvoisier. The virtuoso band brings together key musical personalities from the New York jazz scene in Wadada Leo Smith, Nate Wooley, Drew Gress and Kenny Wollesen, and features Austrian artist Christian Fennesz, whose ambient textures can be considered Chimaera’s wildcard. Inspired by the fantastic, enigmatic-hallucinatory paintings of symbolist Odilon Redons, the sextet creates an expansive and shimmering soundscape. “The lucid, dreamlike sounds of Courvoisier’s Chimaera album are floating and elusive like shadows on the ocean; the melodic glitter of trumpet, piano and vibraphone on a rolling groove of rhythmic ambience, with Fennesz’s magical guitar clouds enveloping the band,” writes Bradley Bamberger of the music of this new sextet. Another high point in the musical career of Sylvie Courvoisier, about whom jazz journalist Kevin Whitehead said, “Some pianists approach their instrument as if it were a cathedral. Sylvie Courvoisier sometimes treats it like a playground.”

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released October 20, 2023

Sylvie Courvoisier: Piano
Wadada Leo Smith: Trumpet
Nate Wooley: Trumpet
Christian Fennesz: Guitar, electronics
Drew Gress: Bass
Kenny Wollesen: Drums, vibraphone

All compositions by Sylvie Courvoisier (SUISA, ASCAP). Recorded November 17 and 18, 2022, at Oktaven Audio, Mont Vernon, NY, by Ryan Streber. Mixed March 25 and 26, 2023, at Reservoir, NYC, by James Faber. Assistant engineer: Thom Beemer. Mastered on July 4, 2023, at Skyle Mastering, UK, by Denis Blackham. Cover art and graphic design: Fiona Ryan. Lithographic print: Odilon Redon. Liner notes: Michelle Mercer. Photo: David Breskin (group), Georges Braunschweig (portraits). Recording produced by Sylvie Courvoisier and David Breskin. CD produced by Intakt Records. Intakt Records, P.O. Box, 8024 Zürich, Switzerland.

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Pianist-composer Sylvie Courvoisier, a native of Switzerland, has earned just renown for balancing two distinct worlds: the deep, richly detailed chamber music of her European roots and the grooving, hook-laden sounds of the downtown jazz scene in New York City, her home for more than two decades.
– “a pianist of equal parts audacity and poise,” according to The New York Times ... more

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