Album info

Album-Release:
2017

HRA-Release:
13.01.2017

Album including Album cover Booklet (PDF)

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  • 1 Sisyphe 04:26
  • 2 Tsunami 07:00
  • 3 Smile 05:20
  • 4 Danse 02:07
  • 5 L'onde 05:41
  • 6 Oort 02:13
  • 7 Kid 06:13
  • 8 Reste 01:36
  • 9 Tinguely 04:43
  • 10 Morn 04:14
  • 11 Reste (Var.) 02:23
  • Total Runtime 45:56

Info for Danse



The Colin Vallon Trio has found its own space in the crowded world of the piano trio by quietly challenging its conventions.

On its third ECM album Vallon again leads the group not with virtuosic solo display but by patient outlining of melody and establishing of frameworks in which layered group improvising can take place.

With this group, gentle but insistent rhythms can trigger seismic musical events. Although Vallon (recently nominated for the Swiss Music Prize) is the author of nine of the pieces here, the band members share equal responsibilities for the musics unfolding. The gravitational pull of Patrice Morets bass and the intense detail supplied by Julian Sartoriuss drums and cymbals are crucial to the success of Vallons artistic concept and the range of emotions the music can convey.

Colin Vallon, piano
Patrice Moret, double bass
Julian Sartorius, drums



Colin Vallon
(born 1980 in Lausanne) has been leading his own bands since 1999. Patrice Moret (born in Aigle in 1972) joined Vallon’s group in 2004. Rruga, recorded in 2010 was the third Vallon trio album and its first for ECM, immediately greeted by positive press. The musical understanding between Vallon and Moret has been further honed inside Albanian singer Elina Duni’s quartet (see the albums Matinë Malit and Dallëndyshe), another place where improvisation flowers outside jazz’s frame of reference. Vallon has often said that singers have influenced him more than other jazz instrumentalists. Beyond the trio he writes music for diverse ensembles and choreographers. Vallon and Moret play also in saxophonist Nicolas Masson’s group Parallels.

In addition to the centring power of his bass, Patrice Moret has contributed striking compositions to the trio repertoire, in this case the kinetic motoric piece “Tinguely”.

Julian Sartorius
has been drummer with Vallon’s trio for more than four years, joining in time for the recording of Le Vent. Born in Thun in 1981, Sartorius had his first drum lessons at the age of 5, and later studied at the jazz schools of Lucerne and Bern with teachers including Pierre Favre and Norbert Pfammatter. He has collaborated with Matthew Herbert, Shahzad Ismaily, Sylvie Courvoisier, Dimlite, Merz, Fred Frith, Sophie Hunger, Rhys Chatham and many others.

“This is highly original music… Vallon’s project has something to with how we perceive time in music – and music in time. It’s fascinating and accrues more and more interest with repeated listening.” - Paul De Barros, Downbeat

Booklet for Danse

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