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Sylvain Leroux

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Sylvain Leroux grew up in Montreal where he studied classical flute at Vincent d’Indy; and improvisation and composition in New York at the Creative Music Studio where he attended classes by luminaries Don Cherry, Anthony Braxton, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, and manymore. A pioneer of African Jazz, he is a foremost player of the Fula flute, the traditional flute from Guinea. As bandleader, he brought traditional West African music to Zankel Hall with his Fula Flute Ensemble. His 2002 CD “Fula Flute,” achieved cult status and stimulated worldwide interest

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Movements of the Air -Beyond Flute Group

Label: 11th Street Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: 1-Movements of the Air 2- Tweet Storm 2025 3-Movements of the Air 4-Spring Birds 5-Movements of the Air 6-Fula -o-Flutes 7- Free Blues for Mr. Coleman, Gene , that is. 8-Flute Impressionists 9-Movements of the Air

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Qromatica

Label: Fula Flute / Meta Dash
Released: 2023
Track listing: Zoé; Gambalou; In Walked Bud; Alliance; Main Gauche; Shridana Ryapur; Badinerie;

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Fula Flute III

Label: Engine Studios
Released: 2016
Track listing: Minuit; Bamana Song; Djama Mayin Fouta Kama; 56; Chromatic Improvisation; Samba; Marifala; Chedo; Bani

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Why Not

Label: Exit Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: La Strada; Short and Sweet; Einstein's Secretary; This Summer Fells Like Spring; We Can Still Dream; Lost and Found; False Start; First Time; The Subway.

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Quatuor Creole

Label: Engine Studios
Released: 2012
Track listing: Oxossi; Tanganika; Fantaisie Créole; Fantancolo; Le Message; Dans La Forêt; Notis; Monk in Paradise; MIH; Gambalou.

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The Sound of a Dream

Label: Meta Records
Released: 2012
Track listing: 1. Glimpse and Departure (5:28); 2. Dance Drama Part 3 (Green) (6:06); 3. Ambrosia Offering (2:34); 4. Slip of Shadows (5:02); 5. Lament and Remembrance (6:53); 6. Love's Light (6:35); 7. White Sky, Black Clouds (3:23); 8. Dance Drama Part 3 (Blue) (2:45); 9. Treelines (5:35); 10. Neither Mirage Nor Death (1:27); 11. To Rafter, To Skylight (4:37); 12. Murmur and Dust (2:08); 13. Dance Drama Part 3 (Red) (2:54); 14. Dance Drama Part 4 (3:43); 15. Wing Swept (2:07); 16. Glow and Orbit 1:41; 17. Dawn Redwoods 3:33; 18. Nascence 1:51.

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Article: Album Review

Sylvain Leroux: Quatuor Creole

Read "Quatuor Creole" reviewed by Hrayr Attarian


Flautist Sylvain Leroux's debut, Quatuor Créole, is an enchanting mélange of Guinean sounds, French influences and jazz inflections. In that aspect it is essentially Creole, but not necessary a work of New Orleanian or Haitian folkloric music. Leroux plays the tambin, a West African reed flute, and a dozon ngoni, a lute from ...

Article: Album Review

Adam Rudolph Go: Organic Orchestra: The Sound of a Dream

Read "The Sound of a Dream" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Dal quinto disco dell'orchestra inventata (all'inizio dello scorso decennio) e diretta da Rudolph fluisce un immenso quanto affascinante magma sonoro. Vi si riuniscono decine di archi e fiati e all'orizzonte si delinea una sorta di battaglia perenne tra improvvisazione totale, strutture costruite su immensi lastricati sonori, momenti ripetitivi, corpose sezioni e una sorta di sinfonismo contemporaneo ...

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Nu World Trash

Label: DooBeeDoo Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Ja-Jou-Ka; Nu Persian Flamenco; Welcome New Iran; Khorasan; Vatan Kojai?; Happy April Fool's Day; NY's Sa-Si-Su-Se-So; Sad Sake; Everyday Blues.


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