Announced as a “new musical experience”, LOGUSLABUSMUZIKUS, new album of the Quebec supergroup, is perhaps better defined by the feeling of deliverance in which the recording must have been made. In the midst of a pandemic, bring together eight musicians, plus the technical team, in the studio? After months of isolation, the pleasure that these pillars of our jazz scene had in communing around the nine new compositions of the double bass player and conductor Alain Bédard (alias Auguste Le Prez!) Transpires on this album which grants a lot of playing time, brilliantly used, to saxophonists Samuel Blais, Mario Allard and Benjamin Deschamps, for example on the long and complex Paws–jigsaw puzzle or in the rich harmonic textures of The great major saving opening, with the brilliant contribution of trumpeter Jacques Kuba-Séguin. It is this obvious complicity which binds together Bédard’s compositions to form this album teeming with ideas, but always coherent.
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