D’Agala, by SYLVIE COURVOISIER TRIO with Kenny Wollesen and Drew Gress

D’Agala

by SYLVIE COURVOISIER TRIO with Kenny Wollesen and Drew Gress

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1.	Imprint Double (for Antoine Courvoisier) 07:40	info	buy track
2.	Bourgeois’s Spider (for Louise Bourgeois) 07:32	info	buy track
3.	Éclats for Ornette (for Ornette Coleman) 04:14	info	buy track
4.	Simone (for Simone Veil) 04:01	info	buy track
5.	Pierino Porcospino (for Charlie) 04:19	info	buy track
6.	D’Agala (for Geri Allen) 08:13	info	buy track
7.	Circumbent (For Martin Puryear) 03:54	info	buy track
8.	Fly Whisk (for Irène Schweizer) 07:53	info	buy track
9.	South Side Rules (for John Abercrombie) 06:23	info	buy track

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With her high-quality trio with Drew Gress and Kenny Wollesen, Sylvie Courvoisier presents her eleventh album on Intakt Records: Intakt CD 300. In both her playing and her composition she shows neoclassical influences mixed with European improvised music and the experimental nonconformismof the New York downtown scene.

The nine pieces on D'AGALA are dedicated to people who admired and influenced Courvoisier. The title tune is for pianist Geri Allen, "one of three dedicatees who passed away as this June 2017 recording was in preparation – the others being guitarist John Abercrombie and French politician, women’s rights advocate and Holocaust survivor Simone Veil. Two pieces are for sculptors, Martin Puryear who merges organic and geometric forms, and Louise Bourgeois. On “Bourgeois’s Spiders,” Courvoisier is all over the piano – plucking or strumming strings inside, or playing with one hand inside and one on the keys, or rattling around on the metal frame. Sometimes the band sounds like a trio of percussionists; they’re that rhythmically acute", writes Kevin Whitehead in the liner notes and adds: "Some pianists approach the instrument like it’s a cathedral. Sylvie Courvoisier sometimes treats it like a playground".

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released January 19, 2018

Sylvie Courvoisier: Piano, Composition
Kenny Wollesen: Drums & Wollesonic
Drew Gress: Bass

All compositions by Sylvie Courvoiser (SUISA, ASCAP). Recorded June 22,2017, by Ryan Streber at Oktaven Audio, Mont Vernon, NY.
Mixed September 25, 2017, by James Farber at Sear Sound Studio, New York City. Asst. engineer and editing: Owen Mulholland. Mastered by Scott Hull. Cover art: Mario Del Curto. Graphic design: Jonas Schoder. Liner notes: Kevin Whitehead. Photos: Frank Schindelbeck. Executive production by Florian Keller. Produced by Mark Feldman, Sylvie Courvoisier and Intakt Records, Patrik Landolt.

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Sylvie Courvoisier is a pianist, composer and improviser. Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, Courvoisier moved to New York in 1998 and has lived in Brooklyn since that time.

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