Intakt Records: Intakt CD 260
http://www.intaktrec.ch/260-a.htm
http://www.intaktrec.bandcamp.com/album/now
* Pierre Favre : drums, percussion
* Chris Jaeger : drums, percussion
* Markus Lauterburg : drums, percussion
* Valeria Zangger : drums, percussion
http://www.pierrefavre.ch/
http://www.chrisjaeger.ch/
http://www.markuslauterburg.ch/
http://www.valeriazangger.ch/
Recorded by Adrian von Ripka at Bauer Studios,
Ludwigsburg, Germany, on May 14 & 15, 2015.
Reviews
By John Fordham
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/aug/11/pierre-favre-drumsights-now-review
Antonio Sanchez’ acclaimed drum score for last year’s Birdman movie has alerted
a wider audience up to how expressive all-percussion music can be. This album
features a dozen pieces composed by the 79-year-old Swiss percussion marvel
Pierre Favre for his DrumSights quartet. Favre made an ECM album called Singing
Drums in 1984, and he still leads groups that layer multiple rhythms with a
warmth and vocal-toned naturalness that hides their astonishing
complexity. Brushes-dominated pieces are ruthlessly badgered by bass-drum booms
and woody tappings; deep fusions of conga and tom-tom rhythms ring and chime
with metallic upper sounds; rubbery, racing-heart rhythms are pursued by
thundering hooves; and there are byzantine conversations on taxing meters like
the 5-6-5-5 pattern of the brittle, chattery Pow Wow. Every track has
character, but the almost 10-minute Games (originally written for the African
djembe), a mix of soft and hard sounds, martial, sensuous, relaxed or breakneck
grooves, could be a sampler for the whole remarkable venture.
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Intakt Records reviews
http://www.intaktrec.ch/rev260-a.htm
By Derek Taylor
http://dustedmagazine.tumblr.com/post/143174805612/pierre-favres-drumsights-now-intakt
By Tim Niland
http://www.jazzandblues.blogspot.com/2016/06/pierre-farve-drumsights-intakt-records.html
By Raul da Gama
http://jazzdagama.com/cds/intakt-tom-rainey-pierre-favre/2/
Da Aldo Del Noce (it)
http://www.jazzconvention.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2887:swiss-jazz-pierre-favre-drumsights-now&catid=2:recensioni&Itemid=11
Par Luc Bouquet (fr)
http://grisli.canalblog.com/archives/2016/06/13/33956585.html
Par Franpi Barriaux (fr)
http://www.citizenjazz.com/Pierre-Favre-DrumsSights.html
