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Mots croisés/ Crosswords Qüntêt featuring Desdamona


reference number : J2066
release date : 24/06/2016
Photos : Annabelle Tiaffay

about this album

QÜNTET (pronounced “qu’une tête”, which means “one head” in french) is an ensemble composed of five talented musicians who are passionate artists performing as one single entity.
Since its creation by Jean-Louis Pommier in 1998, the music of QÜNTET has remained deeply original, free but festive, crafty to mix what is written with what is improvised and to maintain a collective performance through soloists and libertarian musicians. Freed from its
past influences (Gerry Mulligan or Dave Holland’s quintet), Qüntêt is one of the most enthralling ensemble of the French scene.
Its writing is more adventurous than revolutionary.

The musicians of QÜNTET enjoy bombarding the material until it splits and frees the energy. In such atomizer one can find waltzes, tangos, swing, funk, solid and odd stuff, silence… The result of this is blue skies, laughter, pride, love and silence… a great deal of things that are shared with a great number of people living on the same planet!

Crosswords/Mots Croisés

In fourteen years of existence and two albums, this ensemble with no harmonic instrument has mixed various materials, many of which coming from the dynamics of dance. A new area/era of playing opens here with the writing of Mots Croisés (Crossed Words).
A voice/way caught between jazz, slam, rap, improv, freestyle, writing, English, French, acoustic, synthetic material, poetry and its depth, rage and its immediacy. A different way of writing underlined by a singular orchestration with no polyphonic instrument where harmony
remains permanently to be built up. A voice which is not the unique echo of sensitive urban areas, even though it borrows its rap energy and talks about the depths of mankind. Two languages in a single song.

Rap and slam have introduced a new dimension within the connection between words and music. Their birth in the Anglo-Saxon world has colored differently these new voices/ways just as their social source has inevitably left its mark on the sound and on the themes they
carry. Above all, for me jazz remains an attitude where musicians constantly solicit the nerve of reactivity. This attitude draws on the history of the music as much as on the new forms of languages which keep on coming out. The notions of pulse and flow naturally echo the quest of rhythm and beat specific to jazz.

As a link between jazz and songs, this project embodies the desire to introduce words into the music. « Mots Croisés » is the footbridge between slam and the world of Qüntêt. It has invited American singer Desdamona to join in for this new musical adventure. Welcoming an
extraordinary soloist, QÜNTET (pronounced “qu’une tête”, which means “one head” in french) is an ensemble
composed of five talented musicians who are passionate artists performing as one single
entity.
Since its creation by Jean-Louis Pommier in 1998, the music of QÜNTET has remained
deeply original, free but festive, crafty to mix what is written with what is improvised and to
maintain a collective performance through soloists and libertarian musicians. Freed from its
past influences (Gerry Mulligan or Dave Holland’s quintet), Qüntêt is one of the most
enthralling ensemble of the French scene.
Its writing is more adventurous than revolutionary.
The musicians of QÜNTET enjoy bombarding the material until it splits and frees the energy.
In such atomizer one can find waltzes, tangos, swing, funk, solid and odd stuff, silence… The
result of this is blue skies, laughter, pride, love and silence… a great deal of things that are
shared with a great number of people living on the same planet!
Mots Croisés
In fourteen years of existence and two albums, this ensemble with no harmonic instrument has
mixed various materials, many of which coming from the dynamics of dance. A new area/era
of playing opens here with the writing of Mots Croisés (Crossed Words).
A voice/way caught between jazz, slam, rap, improv, freestyle, writing, English, French,
acoustic, synthetic material, poetry and its depth, rage and its immediacy. A different way of
writing underlined by a singular orchestration with no polyphonic instrument where harmony
remains permanently to be built up. A voice which is not the unique echo of sensitive urban
areas, even though it borrows its rap energy and talks about the depths of mankind. Two
languages in a single song.
Rap and slam have introduced a new dimension within the connection between words and
music. Their birth in the Anglo-Saxon world has colored differently these new voices/ways
just as their social source has inevitably left its mark on the sound and on the themes they
carry. Above all, for me jazz remains an attitude where musicians constantly solicit the nerve
of reactivity. This attitude draws on the history of the music as much as on the new forms of
languages which keep on coming out. The notions of pulse and flow naturally echo the quest
of rhythm and beat specific to jazz.
As a link between jazz and songs, this project embodies the desire to introduce words into the
music. « Mots Croisés » is the footbridge between slam and the world of Qüntêt. It has invited
American singer Desdamona to join in for this new musical adventure. Welcoming an extraordinary soloist, François Thuillier, Qüntêt has boosted his bass and enlarged his grooves.

press

 ELU 

revue, column, blog
Revue de presse Qüntêt - Mots croises / crosswords

radio, audio

tracklist

1/ Tension Palpable/Tension
2/ How many times/Last Inkling
3/ Tout l’temps coupable
4/ Une journée compliquée/ Complicated Day
5/ Je vis avec et tout va Bien/ Metropolis
6/ Un état intermédiaire
7/ Soft and sad
8/ Quiet, you got to keep quiet
9/ Physical mood/ The Wake
10/ Corps à corps
11/ Education physique

Connexions

other works with Jean-Louis Pommier
Le Gros Cube >> La martipontine
Le Gros Cube >> LE PAX, Le Gros Cube VS Katerine
Le Gros Cube >> Polar mood
Qüntêt >> on the road enfin...
A suivre... x'tet >> paris-calvance
Le souffle des terroirs >>
A suivre... x'tet >> variations alterees
Qüntêt >> vents dominants
LPT3 >> deja 7h!?...
D. Casimir & Yolk en cuisine >> Phonotaxis ou le génome de la vache
A suivre... x'tet >> suite... de danses
Le Gros Cube >> Queen bishop
Brass danse orchestra >> La danse du souffle
Jazzarium >> Megapolis
LPT3 >> Vents Divers
Clover >> Vert Emeraude
Yves Rousseau 7tet - >> Fragments
Santi Quintans' TIPTRICK >> Kiss the Joy
Le Gros Cube #2 >>
Clover >> Paradigme
Le Gros Cube #2 >> Histoire sans paroles
Clover >> Magellan


other works with Alban Darche
Le Cube >> Le Thé
Le Gros Cube >> La martipontine
Le Gros Cube >> LE PAX, Le Gros Cube VS Katerine
Le Gros Cube >> Polar mood
Le Cube >> Autorité Culinaire
Quartethno >> quartethno
OLH Acoustic >> une vie sans lune
Jazzophone quartet >> blues for geo
Jazzophone cie + Tim Berne >> mosaiques
Qüntêt >> on the road enfin...
OLH Acoustic >> G. meets K.
Jazzophone >> yellow suite
Alban Darche trio >> trickster
Qüntêt >> vents dominants
Alban Darche trio >> brut ou demi sec?
D. Casimir & Yolk en cuisine >> Phonotaxis ou le génome de la vache
Quartethno >> tawada
Le Cube >> Frelon Rouge
Le Gros Cube >> Queen bishop
JASS >> JASS
Orphicube >> perception instantanée
Le Gros Cube #2 >> Histoire sans paroles
Alban Darche hyprcub >> Crooked House
JASS >> mix of sun and clouds
Orphicube >> Atomic Flonflons
Jean-Christophe Cholet - Alban Darche - Mathias Ruëgg >> Le tombeau de Poulenc
Clover >> Vert Emeraude
PACIFIC >> PACIFIC
Longboard >> Being wild
Le Gros Cube #2 >>
Clover >> Paradigme
Dandy Dandie >> Hypnos & Morphée
Alban Darche et Loïs Le Van >> Les mots bleus
Clover >> Magellan

other works with Christophe Lavergne
Le Gros Cube >> La martipontine
Le Cube >> Le Thé
Le Gros Cube >> LE PAX, Le Gros Cube VS Katerine
Le Gros Cube >> Polar mood
Le Cube >> Autorité Culinaire
Francis et ses peintres >> la paloma
Qüntêt >> vents dominants
LPT3 >> deja 7h!?...
Le Cube >> Frelon Rouge
Le Gros Cube >> Queen bishop
Orphicube >> perception instantanée
Alban Darche hyprcub >> Crooked House
Jazzarium >> Megapolis
LPT3 >> Vents Divers
Orphicube >> Atomic Flonflons
Jean-Christophe Cholet - Alban Darche - Mathias Ruëgg >> Le tombeau de Poulenc
Le Gros Cube #2 >>
Le Gros Cube #2 >> Histoire sans paroles
David Chevallier quartet >> Curiosity

other works with Rémi Sciuto
Le Gros Cube #2 >>
Le Gros Cube #2 >> Histoire sans paroles

other works with Francois Thuillier
LPT3 >> deja 7h!?...
ETVBT >> wunschklang
Brass danse orchestra >> La danse du souffle
LPT3 >> Vents Divers

other works with Alain Vankenhove
Alain Vankenhove >> beyond mountains
A suivre... x'tet >> suite... de danses
Le Gros Cube >> Queen bishop

Photos : Annabelle Tiaffay