Andy Emler, Claude Tchamitchian & Eric Echampard - The Useful Report

Cat. no: RJAL397041
Format: CD
Barcode: 3770010548225
Release Date: 18 Mar 2022
Genre: Jazz

Twenty years ago, the core players of the MegaOctet Andy Emler, Claude Tchamitchian and Éric Échampard created this trio, a parallel project to the full orchestra, as a way to deepen and create their own sound 

The Useful Report is the trio's fourth album and is a little more written than usual. When one writes about a trio that mixes composition and improvisation, it is common to speak of "complicity", especially when the musicians have been playing together for twenty years. It is a little less common to say that within the Trio ETE, the listener is not really hearing a dialogue between three individuals, but rather a polyphonic monologue. No one plays a solo per say, as Andy Emler would say, the trio is the soloist. The result: the trio becomes an independent musical entity, with its necessary organic cohesion.

In this new repertoire, we find the useful mix of improvisation-landscape, research on rhythm which flirts with contemporary music and hypnotic dynamics anchored in rock music - it is not for nothing that Andy Emler is fan of rock bands such as Led Zeppelin or The Police. Moreover, the album is intended to be listened to at a high volume, as one would listen to a rock band or a symphonic orchestra. In brief, it still is not jazz (missed the mark again!), but it is not something else either. The Trio ETE achieves the dream of a music that simply is.

Andy Emler: piano
Claude Tchamitchian: double bass
Eric Echampard: drums

Tracks: The document / The real / The fake / The lies / The worries / The resistant / The endless hopelude / Indecisions (Part 1) / Indecisions (Part 2) / Broken glace / No return

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