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Album Review

Platform: Flux Reflux

Read "Flux Reflux" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


French clarinetist Xavier Charles along with three inventive Norwegian instrumentalists acutely align their imaginative powers amid a curiously interesting soundstage, steeped in free-form minimalism, ambience, layered tonal shadings and so on. Fractured storylines, along with oddball tunings and Charles' multidimensional phrasings and acoustic effects may fake the listener into thinking the program contains electronics but no such devices are listed on the personnel listings. They occasionally explore the guts of their respective instruments along with subliminal ostinato motifs, ...

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Dans les arbres: Dans les arbres

Read "Dans les arbres" reviewed by John Kelman


When French clarinetist Xavier Charles, pianist Christian Wallumrød, guitarist Ivar Grydeland and percussionist Ingar Zach appeared at Norway's Punkt Festival in 2007, they'd yet to take the name Dans les arbres, which would also become the title of this freely improvising unit's 2008 ECM debut. It's taken two years for the album to find Stateside release--anomalous for a label that has, in the past, seen some significant gaps between European and American releases, but which has, in recent years, become ...

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"Dans Les Arbres" North American Tour this Winter

"Dans Les Arbres" North American Tour this Winter

Source: ECM Records

Charles / Grydeland / Wallumrød / Zach Dans les arbres Xavier Charles: clarinet, harmonica Ivar Grydeland: acoustic guitar, banjo, scruti box Christian Wallumrød: piano Ingar Zach: percussion, bass drum Guitarist Ivar Grydeland and percussionist Ingar Zach, prime movers and catalysts for free improvised music in Norway, got in touch with Christian Wallumrød after hearing his “Sofienberg Variations" on ECM and they have since worked together in diverse combinations including, since 2004, 'Dans les arbres' ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Avis Aux Réacteurs

Inexhaustible Editions
2018

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Flux Reflux

Clean Feed Records
2017

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Gaycre (2)

Metropolitan
2012

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Tsstt!

Metropolitan
2012

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Addis

Metropolitan
2011

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Invisible

BayTaper.com
2011

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