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Pierre Favre Ensemble - Fleuve (2006)

Posted By: Designol

Date: 12 Feb 2023 18:29:13

It's hard to imagine that a group as bottom-heavy as percussionist Pierre Favre's new ensemble could actually sound light and ethereal. But Fleuve does just that. With a septet featuring two basses, tuba/serpent, percussion and, at times, bass clarinet, there's no shortage of warmth and depth. But with guitar, harp and soprano saxophone fleshing out the middle and top end, Fleuve manages to have both weight and an airy ambience that works, in no small part, due to Favre's carefully crafted compositions and the kind of sonic transparency that's long been a defining aspect of the ECM aesthetic.

Favre's writing often occupies no specific temporal space. There are elements of Renaissance and Baroque music in the blended textures, and intertwining melodies of harp, soprano saxophone, guitar and serpent on "Decors," but Favre's deeply resonant percussion gives it a forward motion that comes from either another era or locale. "Fire Red—Gas Blue—Ghost Green" bears a tenuous Middle-to-Far Eastern flavor while, at the same time, presenting a more expansive landscape and subtly persistent backdrop for solos from guitarist Philipp Schaufelberger and bass clarinetist Frank Kroll.

"Mort d'Eurydice" begins abstractly, with dark-hued cymbals coloring harpist Hélène Breschand atmospheric mix of abstruse melody and jagged chord, a bass pulse emerging to lead the ensemble into more lyrical territory referencing, again, Favre's classicism. "Panama" begins equally in the ether, with Breschand, Schaufelberger and double-bassist Bänz Oester interacting with understated freedom before settling into a lengthy theme revolving around harp and bass. A brighter melody doubled by guitar and bass clarinet ultimately emerges, leading into fleeting solos from Oester, Schaufelberger and Kroll before a brief, seemingly non sequitur of a coda.

Favre has always demonstrated a remarkable ability to make his instruments sing. A composer who combines longer form with ample integrated space for his band mates to explore, Favre's fine ear has been honed through evolving texture, movement and melody from a wide range of percussion instruments spanning the entire dynamic spectrum. While he doesn't completely desert the more rhythmic aspect of his instruments—"Reflet Sud," for example, moves inexorably and insistently forward —he remains a melodic equal alongside the other members of the ensemble.

Fleuve surpasses the not inconsiderable achievements of Favre's all-percussion Singing Drums (ECM, 1984) and relatively more conventionally configured Window Steps (ECM, 1996) through its breadth of texture and greater capacity for orchestration, despite its still small size. There are those who believe that percussionists don't make compelling composers and/or bandleaders. Favre's small but significant body of work for ECM lays waste to any such claims, with Fleuve the best argument yet.

Review by John Kelman, AllAbout Jazz.com

Drummer, composer, arranger, and percussionist extraordinaire Pierre Favre returns to ECM as a leader on this 2007 date with his most recent version of the Pierre Favre Ensemble. As one would expect, this group has a deep bottom end with his own drums, the double bass of Banz Oëster, the bass guitarist Wolfgang Zwiauer, and the tuba and serpent playing of Michel Godard. Middle- to high-end instruments are played by guitarist Philipp Schaufelberger, soprano saxophonist and bass clarinetist Frank Kroll, and harpist Hélène Breschand. With such a firm low-end weight, the listener might expect something very different than what is heard: these tunes are often breezy, airy, and light (as in color). Certainly the beautiful anchors of tuba and serpent, and the way they balance the basses, are wonderful, as on "Reflet Sud," but Schaufelberger's guitar-playing moves them into a beautiful middle-range improvisation with the tuba and bass playing contrapuntally and Kroll coming in to center the piece's melody. Elsewhere, such as on "Panama," the low-end theory offers a skeletal framework for an actual tune to unfold. There are shimmering figures from the double bass and harp and slippery, skeletal hand percussion in the back as the bass rumbles underneath. But then a short flash of cymbals dances through the middle, a guitar approximates a melody, and from all this ethereal gauze, a gorgeous group improvisation gels into something else. The gauzy ethereality makes its presence most known on the halting double bass and bass guitar entrance of "Fire Red-Gas Blue-Ghost Green," which unfolds thanks to Kroll and Schaufelberger into an open and knotty jazz tune that flirts with Middle Eastern modalities and even melody before transforming itself into another kind of improvisation. Fleuve is an album of gorgeous, flowing textures and sound colors that seduce the listener toward them, bringing them slowly along through the recording. The space in Manfred Eicher's production encourages this, providing an unhurried sense of time's stasis and making the recording all the more appealing. Beautiful.

Review by Thom Jurek, Allmusic.com

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Pierre Favre (percussion, drums)
Philipp Schaufelberger (guitar)
Frank Kroll (soprano saxophone, bass clarinet)
Hélène Breschand (harp)
Michel Godard (tuba, serpent)
Wolfgang Zwiauer (bass guitar)
Bänz Oester (double-bass)

Tracklist:

1. Mort d'Eurydice (5:34)
2. Panama (6:35)
3. Albatros (7:58)
4. Reflet Sud (8:03)
5. Fire Red - Gas Blue - Ghost Green (7:56)
6. Nile (8:25)
7. Decors (7:31)

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