Stress Killer

After the success of his summer tour and a shower of awards, the French jazz tenor releases his album Stress Killer in an augmented version including 4 previously unreleased tracks, in CD format and double vinyl 180g. A lot has happened since the release of Stress Killer just a year ago: with the New French Touch project that crisscrossed the Smac de France or his 70-date tour across Europe, North or South America, the Franco-Swiss saxophonist never ceases to recompose his audience by bringing jazz where we didn't expect it. No. It is a bit of this path, influences and encounters that he shares in this augmented edition. A desire to complete the journey and expand the spectrum of his ever-changing jazz. Heir to a certain academism, graduated from the Conservatoire and the Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne, Léon Phal's music is far from being reduced to classics. On the contrary, and in the image of his reinterpretation of Coltrane's "Naïma" from which he draws a wild version, he relies on the fundamentals but never remains a prisoner: for more than ten years, he has been developing this vision larger than jazz that modernizes the genre and pushes its limits. This is how heritage becomes the future, battleship hop or electronic music, aggregating the old and modern in the service of lush, rich and unpublished grooves. He then invited singular voices, that of the French Brö, Lorine Chia or the free electron K.O.G., both poet, singer or dancer, which amplify these stylistic positions. Originally solitary, Léon Phal's composition is played in front of a computer, where the one who studied the style of the greatest reinvents them alone. The instinct wide open, driven by the inspiration of the moment, he rethinks the groove, seeks, invents and modernizes classical thought to rub it with contemporary influences, willingly quoting El Michels Affair, The Roots or Ahmad Jamal in the same sentence. But this is only a first step: everything ignites when he submits the fruit of his research to the quintet that surrounds him. On stage as on record, Arthur Alard (batt. ), Rémi Bouyssière (contrb. ), Gauthier Cough (clav.) and Zechariah Ksyk (trick.) reinterpret his ideas to deliver a brilliant version. You hear the pleasure of playing and dancing, the groove is irrepressible. From hard bop to club music, rap to electro, his ingenious breath transforms classics into modern orchestrations, plays on nuances and details, on analog and digital to project jazz into a new era. Awarded with the Jazz Awards in Vienna or Nancy Jazz Pulsations at the beginning and an already substantial discography, the composer no longer only digests the fundamentals and salutes the pioneers: he now intends to

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