Der Komponist und Producer Bertrand Gauguet und der meist am Schlagzeug sitzende Jazz- und Improvisationsmusiker Didier Lasserre bringen dieser Tage ein gemeinsames Album über die beiden Labels Akousis und Nunc Records heraus. Es enthält vier Tracks auf der Basis von Altsaxofon und Percussion, wobei die Stille als Hintergrund einen grundlegenden Faktor darstellt. “Mehr’s music is rooted in listening to silence”, heißt es im Begleittext. “The breaths and multiphonics of the saxophone are met by resonant impacts, friction and uncertain rhythms, all materials that produce intuitive forms linked to inhabited spaces”. Das Album erscheint als CD und zum Download, ein track ist bereits zu hören.

“Didier Lasserre was born in Bordeaux in 1971. His musical roots lie in free jazz and improvisation, which he has been practising for some twenty years, and to which many records and concerts throughout Europe and beyond bear witness. Paradoxically in relation to his work as a ‘free’ percussionist, he has always been interested in what is commonly known as silence, as well as in very gentle dynamics, worked on as a passageway to this silent zone. So, whatever instrumentarium he chooses and whatever name he gives it, he tries, whether premeditatedly or not, ‘to invent the instrument as it is’ (to borrow Robert Bresson’s phrase): attached above all to the quality and depth of the sound, to memory, to waiting, to forgetting, on these few vacant surfaces chosen for the occasion, and each time questioning the mystery of the passage of time. [...] Bertrand Gauguet is a musician based in Paris. He has been playing alto and baryton saxophones in solo or collective contexts of improvisation of new music. Also a composer of electronic music, he produced many original pieces and soundtracks for dance, cinema and radio. He also made field recordings for radio broadcasts, films and live performance devices. His interests explore the interplay of frequencies, multiphony, sounds at the thresholds of audibility, breath and more broadly sound as a medium for meditation. His discography to date includes some twenty albums published by European labels. He was laureate of the Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto in 2011″. (Akousis / Nunc)