Régis Huby - "Simple Sound"
Régis Huby cherche à développer une parole musicale authentique, intérieure. Simple Sound est un magnifique exemple d’une composition aboutie, raffinée et épurée. La collaboration avec Alain Grange, Bruno Chevillon, Olivier Benoît, Catherine Delaunay et Roland Pinsard est remarquable d’unité.
“Ils ont en commun l’envie de rapprocher des espaces disjoints: le Jazz, la musique contemporaine, les grands minimalistes. Peut-être sont-ils en train de créer l’impossible, une globalisation heureuse. Voici l’oeuvre de joie, l’opus qui transgresse la nocive hiérarchie des genres. “ (Guy Darol, Jazzmag)
"This is a hard to pigenhole record, blending chamber jazz, avant-garde jazz with modern classical music with at times European folk ingredients. The band consists of Régis Huby on violin, Alain Grange cello, Bruno Chevillon on bass, Olivier Benoit on electric guitar, Catherine Delaunay on clarinet and Roland Pinsard on bass clarinet. Every piece is completely composed, with lots of contrapuntual and often sophisticated arrangements for the strings, full of rhythm and tempo changes, yet offering freedom for the soloists to improvise. In his compositions, Huby is a master in creating tension and release : repetitive figures, often reminiscent of Steve Reich, played in unisono with lots of dramatic power are reacted upon by the other instruments in the same vein, driving the composition to moments of climax, yet never exploding but changing unexpectedly into slow and sweet melodic interplay and than back into an overdrive forward movement. The contrast between the strings and the rawness of the electric guitar or the bass clarinet is strong, giving the music extra power and depth. The musicians are absolutely stellar, and their genre-blending skills are amazing, moving from one to the other while maintaining a high quality performance in each. The music too shifts from one mood and mode to the other : accessible with claws, sweet with a angry attitude, reverent and iconoclastic, hypnotic and refreshing, serious yet light. A musical adventure. Fans of John Zorn's string ensemble or of Bang On A Can will love this."Freejazz Free Jazz Blog
“Ever since Django Reinhardt brought gypsy music to jazz in the 1920s, European jazz has thoughtfully incorporated various native folk musics into itself, often creating exciting new hybrids. Violinist Regis Huby's first album as a leader is a sterling example of this cross-cultural experimentation; born and raised in France's coastal Brittany region, an area with a vital musical tradition based on the combination of the violin and a special regional reed instrument called the Breton bagpipe, Huby has brought that regional folk style into France's equally exciting avant-garde jazz scene. The 17 tracks here range from "Maria" -- a nearly nine-minute adaptation of a folk song played on Breton bagpipe, hurdy-gurdy, and electric violin for an otherworldly skirling sound -- to minute-long fragments of skronking free jazz. Odd though it is, the combination works wonderfully, making Le Sentiment des Brutes one of the more fascinating European avant-garde jazz records of its time.†Stewart Mason (All Music Guide mp3.com).
Musique de la Cérémonie du 60ème Anniversaire du Festival de Cannes
Régis Huby / Serge Adam "Too Fast For Techno"
Lambert Wilson "Nuit Americaine" Régis Huby - Direction Musicale & Arrangements
Régïs Boulard / Régis Huby "Oui Mais"
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