Folio #5
Tour De Bras/Circum-Disc, 2024
9/10
A Quebec duo with a penchant for avant-garde jazz, Brûlez les meubles welcome Ingrid Laubrock, Jonathan Huard and Marianne Trudel for these 7 unclassifiable tracks.
“Argentique” starts the listen with Louis Beaudoin-de la Sablonnière’s warm guitar and Éric Normand’s skilled bass radiating much beauty amid Laubrock’s flowing tenor sax, while “Conscience du tragique” is an abrupt blend of wild sax and keys from Trudel that is both hard hitting and soothing.
Landing in the middle, the dreamy ambience of “Vagues/Spider Song” showcases the rich sax prowess alongside the elegant keys, while “Folio” exits with meticulous guitar in a sparse climate of faint keys, manipulated sax and a haunting versus therapeutic balance.
A highly technical affair that uses Huard’s vibraphone sparingly but effectively, the lack of drums doesn’t detract from the impact, where a free jazz, noise-art and improv vision makes a lasting impression.
Travels well with: Peggy Lee and Cole Schmidt- Forever Stories Of: Moving Parties; Dan Pitt Quintet- Horizontal Depths