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Fleuve (album)

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Released
  
2006

Release date
  
2006

Label
  
ECM Records

Length
  
51:57

Producer
  
Manfred Eicher

Genre
  
Jazz

Recorded
  
October 2005 at Volkshaus in Basel, Switzerland

Fleuve (2005)
  
Solo Münster, Berne (2005)

Artists
  
Pierre Favre, Pierre Favre Ensemble

Similar
  
Singing Drums, Musical Monsters, Such Winters of Memory

Fleuve is an album by percussionist Pierre Favre recorded in 2005 and released on the ECM label.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 3½ stars stating "Fleuve is an album of gorgeous, flowing textures and sound colors that seduce the listener toward them, bringing them slowly along through the recording". All About Jazz correspondent Budd Kopman stated "Favre has created music of many layers that exists totally outside of any specific genre. By turns profound, exciting and overtly beautiful, Fleuve is art of the highest degree". On the same site John Kelman said "There are those who believe that percussionists don't make compelling composers and/or bandleaders. Favre's small but significant body of work for ECM lays waste to any such claims, with Fleuve the best argument yet".

Track listing

All compositions by Pierre Favre

  1. "Mort d'Eurydice" - 5:33
  2. "Panama" - 6:35
  3. "Albatros" - 7:57
  4. "Reflet Sud" - 8:03
  5. "Fire Red – Gas Blue – Ghost Green" - 7:55
  6. "Nile" - 8:24
  7. "Decors" - 7:30

Personnel

  • Pierre Favre - drums, percussion
  • Michel Godard - tuba, serpent
  • Frank Kroll - soprano saxophone, bass clarinet
  • Helene Breschand - harp
  • Philipp Schaufelberger - guitar
  • Bänz Oester - bass
  • Wolfgang Zwiauer - bass guitar
  • Songs

    1Mort d'Eurydice5:34
    2Panama6:35
    3Albatros7:58

    References

    Fleuve (album) Wikipedia