Jazoo Project - Roses and Roots
Listen :
01 - Roots Routes
02 - Autour de la tour
03 - The A Priori Thing
04 - Mickey's House
05 - Tempi Romani
06 - Venice Pics (pour A.G.)
07 - Wayne's Garden
08 - Riff Goes Rive Gauche
09 - Attractions
10 - Madre Terra, Madre Perla
11 - Toru's Dream
Jazoo project
Roses § Roots
A poetic album, full of memories
of guitar playing, country songs, jazz, contemporary music, - with no a priori.
Melodies inspired by different beings, places, and music, emotions, shared pleasures from Rome (its temples and its times) to Paris (its tower and its turnings) via Venice and its pictures. Writing and improvisation, words said and unsaid, written and unwritten
« Roses of all colours, for their beauty and their mystery. Roots for their resistance and their ramifications. A journey by road and by dreams. Memories of first times. The pleasure of the first notes. Those chords that vibrate. A group of friends. The pleasure of playing and playing with pleasure. Simple.
Gymnastics of « a priori »; ours and others'. Towns, train stations, earth and sky.
My country has changed indeed.
a hexagon on top and at the bottom a boot».
ROSES & ROOTS was recorded in 2004 with the prestigious and indispensable guest, the drummer Joey Baron, Riccardo Del Fra (double bass), Jean-Luc Landsweerdt (drums), Bruno Ruder (piano) Sylvain Gontard (trumpet and saxhorn), Sylvain Rifflet (tenor saxophone and clarinet), Nacim Brahimi (alto saxophone), Jean-Philippe Muvien (guitar), Rémy Dumoulin (tenor and soprano saxophone), François Bonhomme (horn), Vincent Le Quang (soprano saxophone), as well as a young string quartet (Saori Furukawa : violin, Sophie Magnien : cello, Roland Arnassalon, violin, François Riou, alto).
