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Eve Risser / Benjamin Duboc / Edward Perraud: En Corps Generation
by John Sharpe
The eponymous debut En Corps (Dark Tree, 2012) by the French triumvirate of pianist Eve Risser, bassist Benjamin Duboc and drummer Edward Perraud made several year-end lists, and Génération belongs in the same category. Les Deux Versants Se Regardent (Clean Feed, 2016) by Risser's White Desert Orchestra revealed her as a composer of note, as well as an innovative pianist, who resides in a line of explorers who have furthered John Cage's preparations for piano, such as Benoit Delbecq and ...
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by John Sharpe
Known for her adventurous approach to her instrument, French pianist Eve Risser takes a correspondingly maverick attitude to her first leadership vehicle, the White Desert Orchestra. Not that the two styles are in any way analogous. Rather Risser melds and translates disparate concepts into offbeat constructs which span jazz, improvisation, rock and contemporary classical, but remain beyond genre. Both the name of the ensemble and the cover images hint at the stimulation she draws from iconic landscapes in the western ...
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by Phil Barnes
Space in jazz, in the musical rather than the science fiction sense, is a difficult thing to pull off effectively. Miles Davis may well have said “don't play what's there, play what's not there" but Mr Davis said a lot of things including “if you don't know what to play, play nothing." Its like talking quietly--if you want people to make the effort to listen what you do have to say, then what you venture had better be good. You ...
read moreEve Risser: Des pas sur la neige
by Vincenzo Roggero
La formazione classica di Eve Risser si avverte dall'inizio alla fine di Des pas sur la neige; è come una sensazione, un piacevole ronzio che aleggia sull'incisione senza per questo connotarla univocamente e irrimediabilmente. Il controllo assoluto sullo strumento si traduce in codici linguistici non immediatamente fruibili, ma che abbisognano di una graduale immersione nel mondo percettivo creato da Risser. Il pianoforte pur conservando l'identità di una storia secolare e la rigidità di base che lo caratterizza, ...
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by Eyal Hareuveni
This magnificent French trio is comprised of three promising and yet underrated young musicians-- experimental pianist Eve Risser, an explorer of paradoxical piano sounds and a member of the French-Swedish-German musicians collective Umlaut, the band The New Sounds and the duo Donkey Monkey; likeminded prolific bassist Benjamin Duboc, whose activity encompasses free improvisation, free jazz and music for dance and films; prolific drummer Edward Perraud, leader of a few outfits, member of Das Kapital and collaborator with free improvisers such ...
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