Nicolas Masson, Colin Vallon, Patrice Moret, Lionel Friedli – Renaissance (2025) [FLAC 24bit/88,2kHz]

Nicolas Masson, Colin Vallon, Patrice Moret, Lionel Friedli – Renaissance (2025)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 54:20 minutes | 951 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ECM Records

Nicolas Masson’s acquaintance with his fellow quartet travelers Colin Vallon, Patrice Moret and Lionel Friedli goes back roughly two decades – in this time the players have developed an intimate musical bond, expressed purely and beautifully on Renaissance, the group’s second recording for ECM after 2018’s Travelers. Comprised exclusively of originals by the Swiss saxophonist and one collective improvisation, the album’s spotlight shifts between contrasting moods and shapes, capturing the venturesome leader stretching his compositional muscle in evocative interplay with his colleagues. The band is in a searching spirit on rubato exercises like the expressive “Tremolo” or the ambient “Tumbleweeds”, mathematical on the more cerebral cuts like “Renaissance”, but always operate with a lyrical disposition at heart, as heard elsewhere on the record and with a particularly gripping melodiousness on “Anemona”. The album was recorded at Studios La Buissonne in Southern France.

Tracklist:

1-01. Nicolas Masson – Tremolo (05:46)
1-02. Nicolas Masson – Renaissance (04:45)
1-03. Nicolas Masson – Anemona (05:48)
1-04. Nicolas Masson – Tumbleweeds (02:31)
1-05. Nicolas Masson – Subversive Dreamers (04:35)
1-06. Nicolas Masson – Forever Gone (08:54)
1-07. Nicolas Masson – Practicing the Unknown (04:44)
1-08. Nicolas Masson – Spirits (04:24)
1-09. Nicolas Masson – Moving On (02:32)
1-10. Nicolas Masson – Basel (05:56)
1-11. Nicolas Masson – Langsam (04:20)

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