Eve Risser, Red Desert Orchestra – Eurythmia (2022, France/Europe/Burkina Faso)

Our next spotlight is on number 679 on The List, submitted by platenworm.

The Red Desert Orchestra is a free jazz group headed by French composer and pianist Eve Risser, its core members originating from various spots in Europe alongside, for this record, three Burkinabe musicians: Antonin-Tri Hoang (alto sax, analog synth), Sakina Abdou (tenor sax), Grégoire Tirtiaux (bari sax, qarqabas), Nils Ostendorf (trumpet, analog synth), Matthias Müller (trombone), Tatiana Paris (electric guitar, voice) Ophélia Hié (balafon, bara, voice), Mélissa Hié (balafon, djembe, voice), Fanny Lasfargues (electro-acoustic bass), Oumarou Bambara (djembe, bara), and Emmanuel Scarpa (drums, voice).

The songs are each titled in a language belonging to one of the musicians and integrate a wide variety of elements, as might be expected by reading the list of instruments involved. The effect is rather stunning, seamlessly blending and layering jazzy horn and piano sections into West African percussion solos on top of electronic bloops and bleeps and abstract vocals, often with a hypnotic, minimalist tempo. While all songs are noted as being composed by Risser, she didn’t provide written notation for the musicians so as to prevent posing a barrier for those who didn’t read music. The group instead worked through the pieces together and provided their own improvisations, and each individual musician is given the opportunity to shine at one point or another in the album. The result is that all the musicians are credited for the fantastic collaborative arrangements, and the listener is left wanting more. Beautiful.

• Bandcamp: Eve Risser, Red Desert Orchestra – Eurythmia
• Discogs: Eve Risser, Red Desert Orchestra – Eurythmia

The last three improvisations (following the same calm, slowly morphing "formula" as the recent stuff) I've done over the last week or so are up here: https://ululations.thurk.org/drifting-chords/

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