Michel Portal // Alors !!! LP
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1971-1974年に活動していたフランスのサックス奏者Michel Portalが、2021年に同国ジャズレーベルSouffle Continuからリリースした再発レコードです。（オリジナルは1970年リリース）
フリージャズ8曲を収録。180g重量盤です。
レーベルその他作品はこちら /// Click here to see more Souffle Continu releases available at Tobira.
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12" black 180gram vinyl.
2021 reissue - originally released in 1970.
Tracklist:
1. Oo Bam Ba Deep 05:18
2. Billie The Kid 01:57
3. Yes, Oh Yes, You Wonderous Sun-Kissed Maiden 14:04
4. Ça Boom? 00:56
5. Y En A Marre 05:40
6. Undercurrent 05:36
7. New Peace 02:02
8. Ça Boom ! 07:52
Souffle Continu:
"Could the missing link between Eric Dolphy and Albert Ayler be the Michel Portal of 1970? After having worked alongside
François Tusques defending a free jazz “made in France”, we find him here, heading up an international quintet of which
each member is on fire: John Surman, Barre Phillips, Stu Martin and Jean-Pierre Drouet. The quintet had full leeway to
break out the free-form in long ambient tracks to compose this Alors!!! which leaves listeners with just one word to say:
More!
Do we still need to present Michel Portal?... Clarinetist destined for the classical and contemporary world after his passage
in the Paris Conservatory, he decided to try his hand at jazz, with an incendiary flamboyance! After his first experience with
André Hodeir and Pierre Michelot, he would break all the codes with François Tusques (Free Jazz, in 1965) before starting
the emblematic Michel Portal Unit. It is the Portal of those years that Alors!!! offers us the chance to listen to again.
“There are periods of insolence”, the musician declared and the year 1970 was one all on its own. Heading up an impetuous
international troupe, a quintet consisting of John Surman (saxophones, bass clarinet), Barre Phillips (double-bass), Stu
Martin (drums) and Jean-Pierre Drouet (percussion), Portal moves from alto sax to clarinet in the compositions shared with
his partners.
From the off, the group sparks an explosion with the sound of “OO Bam Ba Deep” battered by the horns and percussion.
Next up is the fabulous free jazz of “Yes, Oh Yes, You Wonderous Sun Kissed Maiden!” and the fantastic disjointed march of
“Ça Boom?” which shakes up the musicians every which way. The quintet imagined that listeners would need to catch their
breath, and thoughtfully added: “Billie the Kid” and “Undercurrent”, marvelous moments of ambient mystery.
Audacious from beginning to end, including the sleeve – the bird-man and his quintet brain designed by Avoine, –, the
album is a fabulous object, to which the label Futura gave wings at the time. And as it is being reissued today there is just
one word to use: the French translation of the title, So!!! "
Artist : Michel Portal
Label : Souffle Continu / Futura Records
cat no : FFL069
Release date : 2021
1971-1974年に活動していたフランスのサックス奏者Michel Portalが、2021年に同国ジャズレーベルSouffle Continuからリリースした再発レコードです。（オリジナルは1970年リリース）
フリージャズ8曲を収録。180g重量盤です。
レーベルその他作品はこちら /// Click here to see more Souffle Continu releases available at Tobira.
----------------------
12" black 180gram vinyl.
2021 reissue - originally released in 1970.
Tracklist:
1. Oo Bam Ba Deep 05:18
2. Billie The Kid 01:57
3. Yes, Oh Yes, You Wonderous Sun-Kissed Maiden 14:04
4. Ça Boom? 00:56
5. Y En A Marre 05:40
6. Undercurrent 05:36
7. New Peace 02:02
8. Ça Boom ! 07:52
Souffle Continu:
"Could the missing link between Eric Dolphy and Albert Ayler be the Michel Portal of 1970? After having worked alongside
François Tusques defending a free jazz “made in France”, we find him here, heading up an international quintet of which
each member is on fire: John Surman, Barre Phillips, Stu Martin and Jean-Pierre Drouet. The quintet had full leeway to
break out the free-form in long ambient tracks to compose this Alors!!! which leaves listeners with just one word to say:
More!
Do we still need to present Michel Portal?... Clarinetist destined for the classical and contemporary world after his passage
in the Paris Conservatory, he decided to try his hand at jazz, with an incendiary flamboyance! After his first experience with
André Hodeir and Pierre Michelot, he would break all the codes with François Tusques (Free Jazz, in 1965) before starting
the emblematic Michel Portal Unit. It is the Portal of those years that Alors!!! offers us the chance to listen to again.
“There are periods of insolence”, the musician declared and the year 1970 was one all on its own. Heading up an impetuous
international troupe, a quintet consisting of John Surman (saxophones, bass clarinet), Barre Phillips (double-bass), Stu
Martin (drums) and Jean-Pierre Drouet (percussion), Portal moves from alto sax to clarinet in the compositions shared with
his partners.
From the off, the group sparks an explosion with the sound of “OO Bam Ba Deep” battered by the horns and percussion.
Next up is the fabulous free jazz of “Yes, Oh Yes, You Wonderous Sun Kissed Maiden!” and the fantastic disjointed march of
“Ça Boom?” which shakes up the musicians every which way. The quintet imagined that listeners would need to catch their
breath, and thoughtfully added: “Billie the Kid” and “Undercurrent”, marvelous moments of ambient mystery.
Audacious from beginning to end, including the sleeve – the bird-man and his quintet brain designed by Avoine, –, the
album is a fabulous object, to which the label Futura gave wings at the time. And as it is being reissued today there is just
one word to use: the French translation of the title, So!!! "
Artist : Michel Portal
Label : Souffle Continu / Futura Records
cat no : FFL069
Release date : 2021
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