Label: UNRec

26人編成の超大所帯即興集団による唯一のLP音源!!付属のCDはボーナス音源2曲が追加された完全版!!Globe Unity Orchestra、 King Übü Örchestrü、The Celestrial Communication Orchestra、London Improvisers Orchestraなど、既に多くの歴史的な参照例がある大編成の即興演奏。その発展を試みる形にてベースプレイヤーのDavid Chiesaが設立した即興演奏団体"Le Un"。あのフランスの鳥類学者であり野生生物のフィールドレコーディストでもある偉人Jean-Yves Bosseurも参加した事があるプロジェクトであり、こちらの作品はル・アーヴルにある複合文化施設"Le Volcan”での3日間のレジデンス・パフォーマンスを記録したもの。集団実験の中心にあるのは個人とその実践であり、各プレイヤーが集団の空間を遮ることなく自らの独自性を維持、まさに活気と混沌に満ちた凄まじい記録として提示された傑作。美しいシルク刷りジャケット。







Large ensemble improvisation has a history and already many historical references such as Globe Unity Orchestra, King Übü Örchestrü, The Celestrial Communication Orchestra, London Improvisers Orchestra… or more recent ones like Splitter Orchester, Insub Meta Orchestra, GGRIL, ONCEIM…
How to combine energy, individuality, unexpectedness… with 26 people?
How to develop different improvisation strategies without falling into the obvious drone?
How can you simply improvise freely with 26 people?
Le UN (new version) was initiated by David Chiesa in 2019.
Le UN acts as an improvisation society: each member is involved in the artistic realisation as much as in the social, non-hierarchical organisation of the ensemble.
The individual and their practice – and not its dilution in the collective – are at the centre of this orchestral experimentation. Importantly, each individual preserves their singularity within a protean mass without obstructing the collective space.
This LP (+ CD) was recorded during a three-day residency at Le Volcan, Scène Nationale du Havre, in April 2021.
This recording is a manifestation of a collective practice of free improvisation beyond genres, a music full of effervescence and turbulence, where the acoustic and electric sources attempt the wager of spontaneous collective fabrication without any direction, irradiated by strong flickering light, with a flight of incongruous actions!

Sophie Agnel : piano / Pascal Battus : surfaces rotatives / Claire Bergerault : accordéon et voix / Benjamin Bondonneau : clarinette / David Chiesa : contrebasse / Christophe Cardoen : dispositif lumière / Patrick Charbonnier : trombone / Michel Doneda : saxophone soprano / Camille Emaille : batterie / Nina Garcia : guitare électrique /Amanda Gardone : contrebasse / Bertrand Gauguet : saxophone alto / Anouck Genthon : violon / Rozemarie Heggen : contrebasse / Benoit Kilian : percussions/ Soizic Lebrat : violoncelle / Lionel Marchetti : électroniques/ Michel Mathieu : textes et actions / Natacha Muslera : voix/ Jérôme Noetinger : électroniques / Jean-Luc Petit : saxophones, clarinette contrebasse / Christian Pruvost : trompette/ Aude Romary : violoncelle / Mathieu Werchowski : violon