Album Long Tales and Short Stories

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Release date: Oct 2010

Price: 15.0€

Ref: IGL224

Through a series of open compositions (long tales) and spontaneous collective improvisations (short stories), a small door is opened onto the rich and mysterious world of shared spontaneity. The jazz that is called “free” remains essential to me, like a breath of fresh air, a taste of freedom, a sincere salute to the only thing that truly exists: the present…

Here, it takes forms that differ from those with which it is usually associated: the melody glides like a river following its course and the landscape is revealed like changing states of mind. But the result still remains the fruit of shared freedom, in other words attention to oneself and one another as well as the encounter between the imaginary and the real. This is how, in my eyes, the rough shape of this liberating music sketches an ideal of communication between people.

"Manu Hermia, is an excellent multi-instrumentalist/flautist that easily goes from a post-Coltranian vein to more airy atmospheres. He is flanked, like two killer bodyguards, by Manolo Cabras on bass (remember this name) and Joao Lobo, a wolf/fox/tiger/panther/leopard on drums... The palette of perversions that exist in this world is as infinite as the range of sound, rhythms, nuances and colours that Joao extracts from his kit." THIERRY QUENUM, JAZZ MAGAZINE"

What makes this trio such a joy is the ease with which they master sounds and harmonies. It all blends with surprising suppleness."JAZZQUES

" Whether they are long or short, the stories told by this trio are thrilling. You listen to them with all the more attention as you are surprised at each track." LE SOIR

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