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This O.U.R.S. (or 'ours', French for bear) has a unifying growl. O.U.R.S. has deep roots, and an airy joy. Fine. But what exactly is O.U.R.S.? A mispronunciation of a bygone communist realm, or a sophisticated spelling of a word used to refer to a quadruped with a sore head? Nothing of the sort. Far from it. O.U.R.S is a jazz quartet. A quartet of fine blades that cut through the current jazz scene in as many playgrounds as possible. Labelling each one, they embrace them all. O.U.R.S. It's probably prog deep down, and it's wonderfully classical in its form. It combines heritage and on-the-spot invention with infinite panache. It's griot (storyteller) jazz, and it's workshop pleasure. Something that makes music incredibly transmissible. O.U.R.S.? It's an acronym for Ornette Under the Repetitive Skies. We're talking a necessary bonus, the power of Joachim Florent polished within the Jean Louis trio and Révolut!on by François Corneloup. We're talking the unwise passage by Hugues Mayot in the Orchestre National de Jazz directed by Olivier Benoit, or the Cubo-agit band ¿Que Vola? with Fidel Fourneyron. We're talking the escapades of Emmenael Scarpa in Umlaut, Marteau Matraque, or more recently in the pendular duo SkullTone, with Fanny Lasfargues. With this CD the quartet renews the definition of their music, while fully aware of which of the old concepts of rhythm and harmony can be shaken up by new ones. Also with something that has always existed in jazz, that physical pulse, an unstoppable instinctive origin.

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• For fans of '70s solo, a Coltranian spirit, African trance, ancestors’ vernacular dances and renewed fraternal hymns.

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Clement Janinet plays violin, mandolin and percussion, with Hughues Mayot/s-p-perc, Joachim Florent/b-perc and Emanuel Scarpa/dr-vib-perc joining in for some free and loose interplay. As if the entire team playing percussion weren't enough, Arnaud Lapret joins in for even more percussion on the meditative acid trip of 'Purple Blues', while Ze Jam Afane gives a chant on the rubato with Mayot's tenor sax on 'Obidi'. There's a traffic jam of crashing on the chaotic 'Haze' and a static vibe with scratchy string strainings on '3rd Meditation'. Musical from Jackson Pollock?

     —George Harris , Jazz Weekly (USA)

HONORABLE MENTIONS--NEW RELEASES

     —x, The New York City Jazz Record

Radio Free Brooklyn (USA)_Mondo Jazz_23.02.01_playlist_incl. „Purple Blues'

     —Host: Ludovico Granvassu, Radio Free Brooklyn (USA)_Mondo Jazz