Results for "Ultrabolic"

Hubert Dupont, Antoine Berjeaut, Steve Arguelles: Trio Kosmos

by Emmanuel Di Tommaso
February 3, 2021

Tre improvvisatori indomabili tra ritmi siderali e dolcezza dell'acustico spezzata da espansioni elettroniche che sondano l'infinito. Hubert Dupont, Antoine Berjeaut e Steve Arguelles fondano il Trio Kosmos e danno vita a un long playing d'esordio basato sull'improvvisazione illuminata e sulla convergenza fra sonorità acustiche ed elettroniche. Dodici tracce che avvolgono, fanno sognare, ipnotizzano, si dispiegano senza ...

Trio Kosmos

Label: Ultrabolic
Released: 2020
Track listing: Bathyscaphe; Kunning Place; Diodes; Reckon; Not Jazz; Héliogravure; Free and Blue; Immersion; Upfront; Roads; Do Up; BusyB.

Smart Grid

By Hubert Dupont

Label: Ultrabolic
Released: 2018
Track listing: Greed; Eoliane; Helliptic; Wonder; Recondition; Pendulair.

Hubert Dupont: Smart Grid

by Don Phipps
October 14, 2018

Recorded live at the Salle Jacques Brel, in Fontenay-sous-Bois, Paris, France, Hubert Dupont's Smart Grid offers up a complex and challenging set of modern cool, hard bop, and funky jazz. All six of the album's compositions were penned by Dupont, and share an emphasis on angular phrases and odd meters. The result is an engaging affair ...

Hubert Dupont: Smart Grid

by Samuel Stroup
September 13, 2018

Hubert Dupont's new live album, Smart Grid, finds the seasoned French bassist in good company. With the assistance of saxophonist Denis Guivarc'h, pianist Yvan Robilliard, and drummer Pierre Mangeard, Dupont manages to give the set's six original tunes the utmost life. The exceptional work of the quartet makes itself known in not only their improvisation and ...

Hubert Dupont: Smart Grid

by Karl Ackermann
July 16, 2018

French bassist and composer Hubert Dupont has been mixing music and political activism since his Sabil Trio played at the Institute of the Arab World in 2013. That event served as the inspiration for Golan/Al Joulan Vol. 1 (2016) and Golan/Al Joulan Vol. 2 (2017), both on the Ultrabolic label. His blend of Arab music and ...

Golan/Al Joulan Vol. 2

By Hubert Dupont

Label: Ultrabolic
Released: 2017
Track listing: Tusi; Accept the Changes; Furatain; Midday Promise.

Hubert Dupont: Golan/Al Joulan Vol. 2

by Karl Ackermann
May 8, 2017

French bassist, composer and activist Hubert Dupont had been touring with a trio called Sabil, playing their initial concert at the Institute of the Arab World in 2013. It was there that he formulated the concept for his multi-cultural, genre-bending Golan/Al Joulan Vol. 1 (Ultrabolic, 2016). In biblical lore, Golan is described as “a city of ...