LOUIS SCLAVIS ATLAS TRIO - Sources (2012) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Louis Sclavis’s band of the season is the Atlas Trio, an ensemble with a global reach of reference. Chamber-improvisation, polyrhythmic grooves, minimalistic pulse patterns, enveloping ambience, rhapsodic piano and funky Fender Rhodes, distorted guitar, clarinet soliloquies, contrapuntal themes, free group playing, a bit of everything. An open-form aesthetic applies in multi-facetted music simultaneously exploratory and involving. Recorded in the South of France last September, the album - Louis’s ninth for ECM – features a programme of new Sclavis compositions, and is issued in time for tour dates including a major showcase at the Europa Jazz Festival in Le Mans. ecm
Tracklist :
1    Près d'Hagondange 6'09
(Louis Sclavis)
2    Dresseur de nuages 8'19
(Louis Sclavis)
3    La Disparition 5'00
(Louis Sclavis)
4    A Road To Karaganda 8'43
(Louis Sclavis)
5    A Migrant's Day 4'10
(Louis Sclavis)
6    Sources 5'20
(Louis Sclavis)
7    Quai sud 4    4'07
(Louis Sclavis)
8    Along The Niger 5'46
(Louis Sclavis)
9    Outside Of Maps 3'05
(Gilles Coronado, Louis Sclavis, Benjamin Moussay)
10    Sous influences 7'08
(Gilles Coronado)
Credits :
Louis Sclavis - Bass Clarinet,  Clarinet
Gilles Coronado - Electric Guitar
Benjamin Moussay - Piano, Fender Rhodes, Keyboards

LOUIS SCLAVIS QUARTET - Silk and Salt Melodies (2014) FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

Leading French clarinetist-composer-improviser Louis Sclavis continues his musical adventures with Gilles Coronado and Benjamin Moussay, who contributed creatively to his Atlas Trio album Sources in 2011. The addition of Iranian classical percussionist Kevyan Chemirani, master of the zarb, has brought a new dimension to their world of sound. Adventurous contemporary music, says Sclavis, can be broad enough to embrace different but complementary traditions. “‘Silk and Salt’ indicates my desire for this work to take an imaginary, nomadic, Central Asian route, but also to address the idea of emigration in world history. In this case: journeying away from and back to jazz.” Travelling melodies and rhythms predominate. The changing contexts inspire some of Sclavis’s finest clarinet playing, captured by producer Manfred Eicher in this recording, made in Studio La Buissonne, near Avignon, in March 2014. ecm
Tracklist :
1    Le parfum de l'éxil 9'00
(Louis Sclavis)
2    L'homme sud 9'22
(Louis Sclavis)
3    L'autre rive 8'15
(Louis Sclavis)
4    Sel et soie 7'36
(Louis Sclavis)
5    Dance for horses 6'59
(Louis Sclavis)
6    Des feux lointains 5'49
(Louis Sclavis)
7    Cortège 8'40
(Louis Sclavis)
8    Dust and dogs 5'50
(Louis Sclavis)
9    Prato plage 1'05
(Louis Sclavis)
Credits :
Louis Sclavis   Clarinet
Gilles Coronado   Guitar
Benjamin Moussay   Piano, Keyboard
Keyvan Chemirani   Percussion