Otomo Yoshihide / Émilie Skrijelj / Tom Malmendier

Ōtomo Yoshihide is to platinists what Platini is to Juventus de Turin. A perfectly striped zebra who scores in the top corner. A great adventurer on the Japanese scene, founder of the mythical Ground Zero, Yoshihide is above all a master piece on the chessboard of world noise music, at ease in electronic litany as in the companionship of US pop or trenchant improvisation. Her hyper-inventive music clumsily stacks each layer of material on top of the others. The music of Emilie Škrijelj and Tom Malmendier, when they play together, for example in Les Marquises, is full of dreamy islands, veins and textures, sequences and joyful contradictions. Emilie Škrijelj is also a platinum player, with a tendency to volley. Tom Malmendier is a drummer whose energy is made to be spent. Generously. So much for the Caisse d’Ep’ squirrel’s nuts.

Drummer and two turntables, that’s the line-up of this trio. Strong in theme and interplay. It’s like a DJ set for contemporary record players, with a free-flowing, hand-crafted noise and impressive dexterity. In the expenditure as in the sonic debauchery. So much for the future. This music is played in the present. Deep. In its white noise as in its perspectives. In its capacity for invention and in its stubbornness to wield humor like others wield a stick. To get things done. Towards their music and its concrete, electronic, striking, evocative, radical and furiously imagined abstractions.”
– Guillaume Malvoisin (PointBreak)

The trio’s tour, initiated by Le Petit Faucheux, continues with our colleagues at Pannonica, Why Note, Cave 12, Periscope, Un Pavé dans l’Jazz and Jazz à Poitiers, in partnership with AJC (Association Jazzé Croisé). A network for the dissemination of jazz in France and Europe, the AJC has been working for many years to promote the circulation of artists, the emergence of new talent and the creation of original projects. The network is also involved in the development of various international cooperation and exchange projects