Metisse Music

1:1

Label: Enja/Yellowbird
Distribution in France: Harmonia Mundi
Release date: December 10, 2010

The trumpet player Airelle Besson and the multi instrumentalist Sylvain Rifflet (saxophones, flutes) present the second recording of the group Rockingchair : “1 : 1” – released in France at the end of the year, in the rest of Europe in February, 2011. In France, the CD already won the “choc” award, the highest praise, from Jazz Magazine, the most important French jazz publication. Rockingchair, a young jazz group of 6 members of whom one, Gilles Olivesi, is an electronics specialist, is focused on sound, on a particular alliance between their sound universe and their original compositions. The sextet uses the ideas of each in circular dynamics ; the creativity is exploited by all six, with the complicity of the sound engineer. The result is a delicate mix between contemporary jazz and touches of rock, of composition and improvisation. It is emphasized by the use of electronics that serve to accentuate their style, clearly based on jazz, but also inspired by the sound of rock and electronic pop.