Chimères

Compagnie 4000 takes a side road into the hybrid and/or globalised music territories it is used to exploring! An acoustic trio has just emerged from the tight ranks of this machine that massively produces live music and love…

 
With “Chimères”, the aesthete of musical crunch Romain Dugelay pulls his fingers out of the socket for a trio epic. After having explored the sonic possibilities of his instrument with amplification and various additives, the composer-saxophonist returns to the source… For this mission of exploration of new imaginations, he invites two high-flying accomplices: the trombonist Simon Girard and the pianist Anne Quillier.

This three-headed hydra needed a suitable playground to multiply itself into eight fantastic creatures, eight syncretic musical pieces that invoke different musical currents… Inspired by Rama Taupia’s original graphic creations, the pieces evolve on the borders of jazz in the broadest sense of the term – from cool to free – but also of chamber music… This fantasised mythological bestiary conceals the most contrasting energies, on the broad spectrum between gentleness and bestiality. No wonder, when you come across a Marmoquin, an Elephon, a Tortache or an Ecurion…