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Selected Tracks: Joëlle Léandre started playing recorder but quickly moved to piano and from the age of 9 to 14 studied both piano and double bass in her home town of Aix-en-Provence. Her double bass teacher, Pierre Delescluse, encouraged her to apply to the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris where she won first prize for double bass. In 1976 she received a scholarship to the Center for Creative and Performing Arts in Buffalo, a time that was to prove particularly influential due to encounters with Morton Feldman, and the music of Earl Brown, John Cage and Giacinto Scelsi. At the same time, she was able to experience the downtown New York music scene and continue her involvement in improvised music. Joëlle Léandre has continued to be involved with contemporary 'straight' music, not only as a member of contemporary music ensembles such as 2E2M, Itinéraire and l'Ensemble Intercontemporain but particularly through the works of Cage and Scelsi, several of which have been recorded by her. Of Cage, she told Machart (1994): "He will always be my spiritual father. I had already read For the birds before meeting him. It is an important book. John made me listen to the world around me: 'Let sound be what it is'. He opened up a field of possibilities; he gave me confidence; he cooked for me (he was a very good cook), with his friend Cunningham; he was good. A friend. He was the first to smile when I played my piece Taxi in the hall at Columbia University - I can still remember it!" After listening to jazz (Mingus, Cecil Taylor, Monk, Dolphy), "I quickly got into the free, improvised realm where, for me, Derek Bailey is extremely important, also George Lewis and Irène Schweizer, and for sure, Anthony Braxton. Meeting Derek in New York several years ago had nearly the same impact on me as meeting Cage". Léandre recorded with Bailey on Les douze sons and on the Company disc Trios, and has worked with a wide range of improvisors, for example: Maggie Nicols, Lindsay Cooper, Irène Schweizer, Fred Frith, Evan Parker, Eric Watson, Lol Coxhill, Peter Kowald, William Parker, and Barre Philips. She is a member of the European Women's Improvising Group (recorded on Intakt 002). More recently she formed The Canvas Trio with long-term associates Rüdiger Carl and Carlos Zingaro. In 1994 Joëlle Léandre was the DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) artist in residence in the city of Berlin; from November 1997 to June 1998 she took up a residence in Metz, north-east France teaching and giving master classes at academic institutions in the region and playing concerts with a range of improvisors that included Eric Watson, Lauren Newton, Carlos Zingaro and Paul Lovens. |
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Comment With more than 70 recordings in her two decades of recording, this may be her most personal statement yet...certainly the strongest. As Sharon Kanach states in the liners, " Joëlle Léandre is playing here not from memory but out of memory, her entirely personal mémoire. Knowing that Joëlle's love of language encompasses not only the musical but also the literary, we can imagine her ludic side juggling from mémoires to me+moras to my+moires. Each of these improvisations bears witness to the intensity, the poetry and the acute artistry of this one-woman-quartet." We couldn't agree more. Comes highly recommended 9 tracks in 51:25 minutes More From Red Toucan/Cactus One Final Note Review :::>>> Tell A Friend About This CD From Drimala If you like this cd, you might also enjoy listening to: c'est ca (Léandre, Poulsen, Houle) Is It Because I'm Black (Vattel Cherry) Caspar (Klaus Janek) Listen (Paul Rogers) Hill Music (Emergency String Quartet) Live @ Banlieues Bleues (Léandre, Houle, Graewe) Monsun (Malcolm Goldstein and Peter Niklas Wilson) The Experiment (Dominc Duval and Jason Kao Hwang) No Waiting (Derek Bailey and Joëlle Léandre) The Mouse That Roared (Matt Turner) Beauvais Cathedral (Kent Carter) Battuto (Corbett, Gustafsson, Kapsalis, Longberg-Holm) Double Indemnity (Honsinger, Kondo, Toop, Beresford) Mirrors - Broken But No Dust (Kowald and Smith) |
