Lay brothers' dormitory
LES CADENCES DU MONDE
Louis Sclavis, saxophone / Annabelle Luis & Bruno Ducret, cello / Keyvan Chemirani, zarb – daf
Nomadic Jazz
In the presence of a trio of musical tight-rope walkers, the saxophonist Louis Sclavis takes some offbeat paths between jazz, written music and Persian tradition, with a panoramic sense of imagination and inspiration .
Flagship figure of European improvised music, Louis Sclavis, the saxophonist and clarinet player, has always rubbed his XXL size jazz with other musical traditions, whether they are from nearby or far away. The Cadences du monde (Cadence of the World), his latest project for a quartet, is inspired from a book by the photographer Frédéric Lecloux, “L’Usure du monde” (“The Wear of the World”, a nod to Nicolas Bouvier’s “L’Usage du monde” translated as “The Way of the World”), the fruit of a journey from ex Yugoslavia to Pakistan, via Turkey, Iran and Afghanistan. Landscapes that Sclavis, supported by three musical tight-rope walkers like himself, produce compositions which spin at times and are sometimes contemplative, eventually becoming like the stages of a pulsating imaginary voyage.