Thierry Eliez

Thierry Eliez – Improse (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 50:41 minutes | 880 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Improse is a closed-door musical experience, an improvised pianistic work on the moment, without any preparation or guide wire, except that of Thierry Eliez’s insatiable imagination. A continuous and exciting dialogue between the piano and his pianist, between the freedom of jazz and the lyricism initiated by the French Music of Messiaen, Ravel, Debussy, Satie … “Improvising alone is also improvising free, we can give up all kind of attachment, be it harmonic, rhythmic, human or technical “Thierry Eliez records an album between dog and wolf, prose and improvisation, between impressionism, surrealism and Jazz. An album that responds involuntarily to the question that arises Thierry Eliez “Being French, from a beautiful region but not marked musically, I always wondered what was my folk heritage, what traditional music would naturally color my musical expression? “And it is the meeting of two classical music which operates involuntarily, one out of the jazz and the American music, the other French, visited by the floating auras of Ravel, Messiaen, Satie, Debussy, Dutilleux, … A contemporary, spontaneous musical reading in unison with two major legacies that are deeply inscribed in the imagination of Thierry Eliez. Improse gets rid of the straitjacket of structure, harmony and the measure of time to deepen the substance rather than the form. Freed from the shackles of reason and conscience, Thierry Eliez launches himself into the creation of spontaneous paintings, applying to music the concept of automatic writing dear to the surrealists. A game to which this immense pianist likes to lend himself, for whom the simultaneous presence of two parallel and independent movements is nothing but an opportunity to overcome the invisible borders of free creation and imagination.

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Thierry Eliez – Improse Extended (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 53:58 minutes | 988 MB | Genre: Jazz
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You do not know who is Thierry Eliez …? Imagine a “talented little genius” who has played with the greatest: Horace Silver, Jaco Pastorius, Jimmy Smith, Aretha Franklin and so on, who has multiplied the participations and has intervened on many music films. But that’s not all … because when you are an artist who plays at the level of the stars, you are asked and we have the pleasure of accompanying great French performers such Nougaro, Aznavour, Salvador and Catherine Lara, among others … And in addition to this resume to piss off a lot of French musicians (and not only those of the hexagon), we find ourselves faced with a personality almost shifted so it surprises, surprises, charm, seduced, because Thierry Eliez owns an extraordinary auditory memory and what is called “the absolute ear”.

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