Label: Infant Tree

Art into Lifeレーベルよりデビューアルバムを発表したトリオユニットのダブルCD 2ndアルバム!!フランスはパリを拠点に80年初頭より音楽家・パフォーマーとして活動を続けているManon Anne Gillis。ブリュッセルにて即興ピアニスト/ドラマーとして演奏活動を行なってきたPaul Abbott、サクソフォニスト、またライターとして執筆活動も行うSeymour Wrightのデュオユニット"XT"と共にレコーディングした共作第二弾!!2024年9月にロンドンにて録音、前作に比べると整理された配置が目立ち、それぞれの演奏が共有されていながらも個別、しかし確かな協調も兼ね備えた素晴らしいバランスの75分。





AnimauX veGeTal is the second release of the collaboration between Anne Gillis and XT (Seymour Wright & Paul Abbott). The trio began working together in 2018. Slowly, remotely (in Brussels, London and Paris respectively), they developed and grew the work ‘Our/s Bouture(s)’. It was broadcast to an in-person and on-line audience at Cafe OTO (London) in 2021 and later released on ArtIntoLife (Japan) in 2023.

In 2022 they performed more together at Cafe OTO and Q-O2* (Brussels), growing, grafting, pruning and diffusing volatile elements of the broadcast (and accompanying film), planting and seeding new sounds and movement into and over what grew from the speakers.

In September 2024 the three met again to record at XTUDIOs (London). 'AnimauX' and 'veGeTal' are what emerged. Shared, discrete and whole these two blocks show how the trio grow its own sound, and move on and into new things. The titles are named after the doings – audible and palpable, heard and felt – they capture the pulsing fact, fabric, and flourish of the matter, pace, and space of what grew and bloomed that day.