Author: Truffaz, Erik

Format: Enhanced

Release Date: 06-05-2003

Details: Amazon.ca After the success of The Dawn and Bending New Corners, two attempts at urban jazz tinged with drum'n'bass rhythms, the quartet of trumpeter Erik Truffaz breaks its reflexes and finally opens up to rock. Inevitable evolution for a musician breastfed at Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple rather than at Miles Davis. The Walk Of The Giant Turtle, an album recorded in a week in Lausanne for the prestigious Blue Note label, includes 10 tracks largely covered in electro, pop and psychedelic rock. Distorted bass lines ("Next Door" and "Seven Skies"), ornate pan drums ("Scody") or Ravel-style piano ("The Walk of the Giant Turtle") respond to the trumpet loops played by Erik Truffaz, with or without mute. Enriched with a CD-rom range including the making-of of the album, 15 minutes of unpublished images taken on the spot, the sensual improvisations of The Walk Of The Giant Turtle bind a quartet of adventurers turning their backs on their compositional schemes to clear a kinetic jazz, stuffed with images of travel and darkness. --Sabrina Silamo Product description Erik Truffaz

UPC: 724358314403

EAN: 0766489969725

Model: 724358314403

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood