Des Trucs Pareils Ping Machine

• 1 Early Morning Party 11:16
• 2 Alors, chut... 08:28
• 3 Des Trucs Pareils - Part 1 15:04
• 4 Des Trucs Pareils - Part 2 13:36
• 5 Zimmer #26 10:53
• 6 Dissonances Cognitives - La Plaque, Une Sphère, Après 16:14
• Total Runtime 01:15:31

Info for Des Trucs Pareils

On Ping Machine‘s third album, DES TRUCS PAREILS the assembly (14 musicians), continues his quest for excess genres, modernity and maturity. In his new compositions, Fred Maurin favored a poetic musical architecture and contrasts, highlighting the links between jazz and popular music on the one hand and contemporary music on the other. In this ongoing research, Ping Machine enjoys pushing the rules: melodic and harmonic explorations, use of spectral techniques of writing, development microtonal or serial, confrontations blocks of sound, interweaving of writing and improvisation in order to project the listener in real image sequences, sound conducive to escape.

Compositions bursting with energy, a real signature sound, (...), remarkable soloists, (...), a formation wich lends itself to improvisation, (...), it really was a tremendous pleasure to hear them play that night.” (Jean-Marc Gélin, JazzBox on Radio Aligre)

“Fred makes the orchestra sounds with a real brilliance (...) Drive, sense of drama and outcomes, colors and dynamics...” (Franck Bergerot, Jazz Magazine, France)

"Ils traduisent, avec toute l’élégance de leur énergie créative, le travail d’un tout inventif, constamment sur la brèche, qui déploie des couleurs en perpétuel renouvellement au fil d’une exploration passionnante. Une aventure bariolée, qui ne laisse jamais l’auditeur au bord de la route." (Citizen Jazz 12/11, Denis Desassis)

"Coup de cœur pour ce quasi big band aux envolées chaudes et puissantes, au sein duquel chaque musicien s’exprime dans un état de liberté dont on ressent vite le besoin à la manière d’une dépendance. Une réponse flamboyante aux fossoyeurs récurrents du jazz, qui est ici plus que vivant. Il bouillonne!" (Maitre Chronique 12/12)

Jean-Michel Couchet, alto & soprano saxophones
Fabien Debellefontaine, alto saxophone, clarinet & flute
Florent Dupuit, tenor saxophone, flute, alto flute & piccolo
Julien Soro, tenor saxophone
Guillaume Christophel, baritone saxophone
Fabien Norbert, trumpet & flugelhorn
Andrew Crocker, trumpet
Sylvain Bardiau, trumpet & flugelhorn
Bastien Ballaz, trombone
Didier Havet, tuba
Fred Maurin, guitar & direction
Raphaël Schwab, double bass
Rafaël Koerner, drums & percussions

Guests:
Benjamin Moussay, piano, fender rhodes & celesta
Stephan Caracci, vibraphone

Ping Machine is the energy of fourteen musicians associated in the same breath and using a repertoire consisting of original compositions written and orchestrated by the guitarist Fred Maurin.

With an average age of thirty, this young band - copy of the richness of the new jazz scene in France - said his artistic goals with determination and maturity: permanent concern of the work of the sound material, diversity of forms and themes and especially close attention paid to group listening and playing pleasure. The repertoire draws on ideas developed in Ellington or Mingus and does not hesitate in leaning on these roots, to launch its homing (ideas, arrangements, soloists, guests) in the directions of the most adventurous with amazing accuracy and insight . The resulting music is dense in its way, with a modern underlying always subtly present but always keeps a great flexibility, fluidity for the listener, allowing him to perceive through the apparent complexity of the sound material that exists behind the sound. An entire music and passionate, committed and enjoyment, this big set that positions among the most stimulating of his generation.

Booklet for Des Trucs Pareils