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the titles of the ring sax modulator trio new record : SUNS OF PARIS * LOVE TRY to Albert Ayler * DATA SUTRA * MY FAVOURITE FATHER to John Coltrane * EAST ANGEL * KISS AND FLY * BLUE PULP to Thelonious Monk
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I was born in Paris and started with classical music. I sang during two years at the Opéra of Nice in a children's choir (Carmen of Bizet etc). I had lost my mother when i was a small boy and I grew up with her sister who was singing in a choir in Nice. . Between 8 and 16 years old ,my father look short care of me, I was here and there and everywhere where ,and in all those places there was no question of music.
During teenage, i was profoundly revolted. Free Jazz and Psychedelic Rock (Coltrane, Ayler, Ornette, Beafheart, Hendrix etc) downed on me as an evidence as being represented of what I was living inside me at that time . I began saxophone and painting as the same time. To tell the truth I especially wanted to blow up the capitalistic society and thought that the social revolution was just around the corner. I left to Mexico when i was 19 with a woman for one year. I got the thing that the revolution was fucked over. In a town San Cristobal de las Casas (Chiapas) i listened to an Indian playing violin in white wood. I stopped a moment to listen to him. Suddenly he lifted his violin giving it to me and asked for a few pennies. I left running down the streets, completly in panic. One minute after I came back to find him but he had disapeared as by enchantment. At this very magical moment i understood that my life will be dedicated to the muse of music. One month later, i was listening Sun Ra in Mexico City where the people in the room were as much as those on the scene, everybody was stoned, the music seemed to a physically touching entily, envelopping your senses with the alive vibrations, one of the most gorgeous concerts that i could ever hear in my life.
I came back to Paris and without hesitation i focused on Free Music (kind of Bailey, Brotzman, Van Hove, Bennink, Parker, Schlipenbach etc) the masters of absolute improvisation and of course Steve Lacy, the most untypical musician, improviser, composer and jazzman with whom I have studied (in exchange, I sticked posters for his concerts on Paris streets). What I most loved in Free Music it was this dimension of not imitating anyone, to be able to express that personal thing out of it but not searching to sound like the best musicial genious of XX century. I created the Axolotl group, which was the first group of non-idiomatical improvisation in France. (2 vinyls : Axolotl & Outmanoeuvre).
Just afterwards i’ve met an girl playing acordion, romanian music. I feel in love with the girl and with this music. It was the start of Techno, Rap and Gogo music in Washington. I wanted construct a kind of music to cross the East and West, an american, european, gipsy, techno, free, funk, rock music. The trouble started because nobody understood where do i want to go. I found the improvised music too much predictible and not at all improvised. I wanted to find my first musical emotions a little something very emotional in a non abstract tempo. (Aller Simple Paris at ITM records (Germany) & Post Communism Athmosphere at Deux Z)
After romanian music I pased to the study of North Indian Music which embraces in its modal logics Coltrane, Lacy, music of Oriental Europe and a certain electronical shape. After this musical dish, i have bought a bagpipe in D, a copy from center of France for logically going towards a worldwide music close of my French roots. It has nothing to do with nationalism, but rather a refusal to adapt totally the musical heritage of traditional musiciens. Inasmuch I’ve always utilised the electronics paralelly to reeds. I finally decided for the last 6 or 7 years to transform my alto sax into electronical bagpipe. I sample a drone with Line 6, the signal passes through Moogerfooger (filter, phaser and ring modulator) and i play modal melodies. By this way, i succed little by little of Funk, Folk, Free jazz established on original composition. (Les épîtres selon Synthétique & The new Fantom Band)
I’ve been a monthly chronics « Petite Fleur Electronique » in Jazz Magazine for 4 years. I am in an even more difficult situation today than before being into the musical business : the musicians considered me a journalist, the producers and concert organisers and directors take me for an unplaceable guy therefore dangerous for their certitudes and their mean interests. Now, i have stoped this chronics for this way.
Pendant 20 ans j’ai collaboré régulièrement avec le poète Julien Blaine. Nous avons fait des performances dans le monde entier. (Live chez Al Dante et Bye bye la Perf chez DCC)
Then I’ve seen countraint to exile myself in alimentary job on TV and I’ve waste even more time and soon for my music. This disc is a long search forgetting to a musical ideal. I’ve also got a contract with the Saravah label. I’ve recorded « La Légende du Franc Rock & Roll », « B/Free/Bifteck » and « Improvisations » in duo with Fred van Hove on church organ of Saint Germain des Près. In addition « Tips » in memory for the death of Steve Lacy and a new eddition of vinyles of Steve at Saravah (3 discs box : Scratching the 70’). My last record is Love Try. So, why « Love Try » tittle ? Hommage in the memory of Ayler, of course and also a deep concept on love. I waste lots of time running after love, finding it then losing it again and again, making parties then hidding myself in a total absence. My spirit of action crumbeled through the years being out of order.
