François Couturier : CD : Un Jour Si Blanc

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Un Jour Si Blanc

Francois Couturier

label: ECM format: CD UPC: 00602527026893 release date: 3/30/2010

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Tracks

	L'Aube (François Couturier):
	1. L'Aube 05:58
	Un Calme Matin Orangé (François Couturier):
	2. Un Calme Matin Orangé 03:32
	Lune De Miel (François Couturier):
	3. Lune De Miel 03:43
	L'Intemporel (François Couturier):
	4. L'Intemporel 04:56
	Le Soleil Rouge (François Couturier):
	5. Le Soleil Rouge 02:47
	Der blaue Reiter (François Couturier):
	6. Der blaue Reiter 02:57
	Sensation (François Couturier):
	7. Sensation 06:41
	Un Jour Si Blanc (François Couturier):
	8. Un Jour Si Blanc 05:28
	Colors Part 1 (François Couturier):
	9. Colors Part 1 02:13
	Colors Part 2 (François Couturier):
	10. Colors Part 2 02:16
	Colors Part 3 (François Couturier):
	11. Colors Part 3 02:18
	Colors Part 4 (François Couturier):
	12. Colors Part 4 02:27
	Clair-Obscur Part 1 (François Couturier):
	13. Clair-Obscur Part 1 03:50
	Clair-Obscur Part 2 (François Couturier):
	14. Clair-Obscur Part 2 01:21
	Voyage D'Hiver (François Couturier):
	15. Voyage D'Hiver 03:42
	Par Les Soirs Bleus D'Été (François Couturier):
	16. Par Les Soirs Bleus D'Été 04:35
	Moonlight (François Couturier):
	17. Moonlight 01:33

Un Jour Si Blanc

François Couturier’s solo excursion “Un jour si blanc” is conceived by its maker as the second volume in a planned trilogy, and an extension of the earlier quartet disc “Nostalghia”, dedicated to filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. The highly poetic approach – both in the playing itself and in the referential and allusive conception – is again evident. The new album’s starting point is a poem by Arseni Tarkovsky, which gives the disc its title and atmospheric implications. Thereafter, the music opens up associatively, making trans-idiomatic improvisational interconnections. “I wanted to pay tribute to some great artists I particularly like”, says Couturier. These include Johann Sebastian Bach, Arthur Rimbaud, Claude Debussy, Franz Schubert, Toru Takemitsu, Joan Miró, the painters of the Blaue Reiter group and more. Meanwhile, “Lune de miel” quotes liberally from “I Fall In Love Too Easily”... But if standard jazz is a component of this disc it is filtered through the focus of a player steeped in the European classical and experimental traditions. This first solo disc from the insightful French pianist is also a richly creative contribution to the unaccompanied piano genre established at ECM, as Couturier now joins the distinguished list of improvising pianists – Chick Corea, Paul Bley, Keith Jarrett, Marilyn Crispell, Jon Balke, Misha Alperin – who have recorded alone for the label.