Sylvaine Helary & Orchestre Incandescent
Release Date: 06 December 2024
Label: Yolk / Autre Distribution
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 3760085430945
Genres: Jazz Contemporary
Description
The dazzling large ensemble Orchestre Incandescent puts together nine musicians with backgrounds in both contemporary jazz and the baroque world, led by artistic director and flautist Sylvaine Helary. The sounds of instruments from both eras respond to each other, complementing each other and blending into one another, through compositions based on a selection of poems by the nineteenth-century American poet Emily Dickinson, and the poetry of English singer songwriter, PJ Harvey.
This new project is a natural extension of Sylvaine Helary's artistic career, as her previous ensembles have already demonstrated her ability to compose a rich and original musical universe and to lead a collective project.
As a performer in Eve Risser's White Desert Orchestra and composer and arranger for Frederic Maurin's Orchestre National de Jazz (ONJ), Sylvaine Helaryhas a thorough experience of playing and improvising with major jazz and improvised music ensembles.
Sylvaine Helary works around a language inspired by the silky tones of English pop - "for me, the beginning is Purcell...and I am developing a new palette of sounds, grooves, and polyrhythms, performed by all the members of the orchestra. The timbres of baroque instruments respond to the electronic textures, around a writing conceived as a field of exploration. This produces not only a juxtaposition of all these different elements, but a creative music with a rich, wide-ranging, and surprising content. Improvisation is given pride of place, bringing together many different approaches to the art of improvisation, which in turn allows each musician to reveal his or her individuality and feed the shared imagination of the ensemble."
Sylvaine Helary: flutes, voice
Antonin Rayon: Fender Rhodes, synths, clavinet, electronics
Elodie Pasquier: clarinet, bass clarinet
Christiane Bopp: trombone, sackbut
Maelle Desbrosses: viola, viola d'amore
Lynn Cassiers: voice, electronics
Chloe Lucas: violone, tenor viola da gamba
Guillaume Magne: electric guitar, acoustic guitar, voice
Jim Hart: drums
Tracklisting
Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli
Murray Head
Sylvaine Helary & Orchestre Incandescent
Sylvain Rifflet
Airelle Besson, Sebastian Sternal & Jonas Burgwinkel
Dead Chic
Jean-Francois Pauvros & Alain Mahe
Gregory Privat
Anthony Ferrara
Alex Norris
Makiko Hirabayashi
Steve Johns
Andrew Rathbun
Adam Fairhall & Johnny Hunter
Eivind Austad Trio
David Ferris Septet
