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Album review
Erik Truffaz
In Between
Paris
04/11/2010 -
Swiss trumpet player Erik Truffaz has hooked up with his former musical accomplices to turn out a dark, melancholy album, In Between. His trumpet soars through the sound of rigged keyboards and accompanies the voice of singer Sophie Hunger.
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Hammond organ and his Rhodes piano into the studio. Sophie Hunger, one of Erik’s Swiss compatriots, joined the musicians to record one of the compositions, Let me go! and a cover version of an obscure Bob Dylan number, Dirge.
The slow, sad track that opens the album sets the tone for the whole opus. The secret of the dead sea, with its vocal and drum blend, unites the chantings of the Hammond organ with those of Truffaz’s trumpet. The musician explains: "The album is pretty sombre and sad. But we didn’t set out to do it that way. Each of us comes to the studio with more or less finished compositions and then we root out a sound together. It’s only afterwards that we discover the result.” The musician has dropped the electronic effects of yore and placed his new silver-incrusted instrument centre stage, producing an ampler sound that at times approaches the flute.
It is the keyboards that provide the effects – dreamlike sounds, like on Mechanic Cosmetic, a track created from one of the quartet’s very modal improvisations. The more agitated Lost in Bogota, which the Rhodes piano turns almost funky, is a long way from the D&B rhythm of BC One, an ethereal tune created and dissected by Benoît Corboz. In Between propagates a hushed (dis)quiet, with the trumpet playing softly and the drums taking back stage before the Rhodes piano comes whirling in.
In Between is in constant oscillation – flitting from past to present, joy to sadness, life to death.
Nicolas Dambre
Translation : Anne-Marie Harper
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