Jazz Articles about Frederick Galiay

About Frederick Galiay

Album Review

Thomas de Pourquery: Back to the Moon

Read "Back to the Moon" reviewed by Emmanuel Di Tommaso

by Emmanuel Di Tommaso
January 31, 2022

A dieci anni dalla loro fondazione, e dopo aver trionfato per ben due volte alle Victoires du Jazz nel 2014 (premio album dell'anno assegnato a Supersonic Play Sun Ra) e nel 2017 (premio artista dell'anno in seguito all'uscita del secondo album del collettivo, Sons of Love), Thomas de Pourquery e i Supersonic danno vita a Back to the Moon, un album che, a detta dello stesso sassofonista cresciuto nelle banlieu parigine, è “allo stesso tempo una nave spaziale e un ...

Album Review

Frederick Galiay: Time Elleipsis

Read "Time Elleipsis" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
October 6, 2020

This largely electric French quintet discloses a vastly experimental and often fascinating series of works that intertwine into a multipart suite of indexed titles directed by bassist Frederick Galiay. As the press material states, the bassist “was a laureate for a Hors les murs residency program initiated by the French Institute," spanning Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar. Here, the musicians explore subterranean depths via shadowy sonic textures and on the opener “Naga Convulsions," venture into electronic minimalist terrain amid the ...