Berthiaume, Antoine - Leaves and Snows
SKU
AM135
"The young guitarist Antoine Berthiaume, who released in 2002 an album of duets with Fred Frith and Derek Bailey titled Soshin, unveils his second effort for Ambiances Magntiques, Leaves and Snows, a project also featuring pianist Quentin Sirjacq and sound engineer Norman Teale. This meeting of fresh talents has given birth to a brilliant, highly open, poetry-filled collaboration. Certain meetings give such good results that one wonders if something more than luck was at play. In the wonderful setting of Mills College, California, Quentin Sirjacq and Antoine Berthiaume are both in Jolle Landres improvisation class. They are both native French speakers, they both lead a jazz group and they share a taste for adventure enough common points to spark the beginning of a great collaboration. Norman Teale will be the cement that will make this album possible. Teales talent was unveiled in the course of the collaboration and it became gradually obvious that his work with electronics and mixing was becoming an integral part of the group. And so Sirjacq and Berthiaume gave him carte blanche."
- LabelAmbiances Magnetiques