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Marc Ducret: Tower, Vol. 2
by Glenn Astarita
Marc Ducret is among the elite group of modern era guitarists who make a significant imprint on roads previously navigated, with a penchant for exploring bewildering musical vistas. His unique instrumental voice has been a source of wonderment for several decades. On his follow-up to Tower Vol. 1 (Ayler, 2011), featuring a horns-based quintet, Ducret realigns with longtime comrades and influential musicians in their own right--alto saxophonist Tim Berne and drummer Tom Rainey--for a bass-less quartet. Moreover, violinist Dominique Pifarely's ...
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by AAJ Italy Staff
Il chitarrista francese Marc Ducret si immerge in un nuovo progetto che prende spunto da un breve racconto di Vladimir Nabokov intitolato Ada or Ardor e ne ricava materiale per una prima uscita su album che sarà certamente seguita da altre puntate che coinvolgeranno formazioni diverse. In questo primo episodio sono al suo fianco quattro musicisti danesi che ben lo assecondano in questa escursione in territorio free che offre molteplici stratificazioni, spesso spostate verso la parte grave dello spettro acustico, ...
Continue ReadingMarc Ducret: Le sens de la marche
by Jean-Marc Gelin
From the word go, guitarist Marc Ducret's Le sens de la marche enters another world, an unsettled one full of surprise and anguish--one for which there can be no preparation. Vaguely reminiscent of Frank Zappa, King Crimson and Tim Berne, it's a musical hubbub of organized chaos--systematic in theory but brutal and brilliant in practice.
The references, however, are many and various. Ducret's jungle is wild and urbane; on “Tapage," the distant echoes of Duke Ellington's jungle can be heard, ...
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by Martin Longley
Marc Ducret is usually experienced either as a highly noticeable sideman or, if he's leading his own band, a dangerously pointed guitar brandisher. Mostly, he's known for working with Tim Berne, as part of Bloodcount and Big Satan. This solo album reveals one of Ducret's other aspects: composer and bandleader on a particularly ambitious scale. His 10-piece ensemble sounds even bigger than that, benefiting from strategic electrification and amplification. The material was recorded in Ducret's French homeland, ...
Continue ReadingMarc Ducret Trio: Heart-Stopping Music in Helsinki
by Anthony Shaw
The Marc Ducret Trio Rythmihäiri Club Helsinki, Finland November 31, 2007
Lost in translation is not an applicable excuse when listening to free-form instrumental jazz. It is to be expected. Sitting through 25 minutes of the intense experimental music the Marc Ducret Trio offers up during a single selection, inevitably the listener is sometimes in limbo -- wherever such respite might be!
Playing to a packed bar at Helsinki's Rythmihäiri (Cardiac Dysfunction) Club, ...
Continue ReadingMarc Ducret: Qui Parle?
by John Kelman
Now in his late forties, guitarist Marc Ducret has built a career out of taking the essence of various traditions and turning them on their side. With Qui Parle? Ducret has fashioned perhaps his most ambitious and audacious effort to date, a seventy-five minute suite that is bold and almost entirely indefinable in terms of how it references any known style. This is a daring release that creates its own vernacular.
Ranging from chamber-like passages to punk-informed rock themes to ...
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by Phil DiPietro
While he's turned in some brilliant interim work , it's been four years since Marc Ducret's last solo project. Now 46, Ducret worked more than two years on Qui parle? (which translates to “Who's speaking?"), wherein his conceptual thrust begins to overtake his colossal aptitude as a pure player. With the members of his working trio plus ten other musicians, three actors and a singer, Ducret has created a collage involving sound and studio as much as pen and paper. ...
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