Objets Trouv

Objets Trouves: This Side Up

by Nic Jones
June 23, 2009

It's only right that this group didn't come together under the name of one of its members as this is cooperative music of an order that's still only too rare. This is Objets Trouves' second title for Intakt, indicating that the label seems intent on a long-term relationship with them. If so this is a good thing as their music is shot through with a shared method of communication that makes no modest case for the positive aspects of the ...

Objets Trouv: Fragile

by Derek Taylor
November 24, 2005

On the surface, the instrumentation of the Swiss quartet Objets Trouvés appears to follow the conventional schematic of a saxophonist backed by a piano-led rhythm section. The group's music, made up of ambitious sectional suites governed largely by collective improvisation, proves conclusively otherwise. Pianist Gabriela Friedli provides the composed material that serves as periodic thematic signposts, but it's up to the band as a whole to determine its minute-by-minute trajectory on the fly.

The meterical ingenuity of drummer Dieter Ulrich ...