CD диск Oliva, Stephan & Sebastien Boisseau - Hubble Dreams 1CD (3521383490693)

The music on this album, both totally free and spontaneous, probes the mysteries of the improvised gesture in a unique and innovative way. At the request of their producers, Stéphan Oliva and Sébastien Boisseau agreed in principle to move into the Studios de La Buissonne, without the slightest theme in mind, in order to engage for three days, under the guidance of sound engineer Gérard de Haro, in a genuine process of free improvisation, with the predictable aftermath of meticulous post-production work giving the whole its final form and dramaturgy. Within this minimalist framework, the two musicians recorded five 45-minute sequences of improvised pieces, before on the last day of recording Ghielmetti and Oskéritzian bent the rules by introducing a few themes of different inspirations: the song There Comes A Time composed by Tony Williams, the standard When Flamingos Fly and finally Neil Young's Dead Man, the title theme of Jim Jarmusch's film of the same name. It was from this rich, composite material that Sébastien Boisseau, the first, embarked on a long and painstaking process of selection, cutting and editing, offering the others a kind of sequence in which each helped to define a ‘final cut’. Composed entirely of improvised music, Hubble Dreams is not, strictly speaking, a record of improvised music. This is its originality and paradoxical beauty. By selecting moments of crystallisation from the flow of improvisations and isolating them so as to re-engage them through editing in another temporality, the record breaks with the purely chronological aspect typical of improvised music and in a way ‘spatialises’ the whole. Between raw spontaneity and meticulous editing, Hubble Dreams offers a new reading of the improvised musical gesture.