Une Bien Curieuse Planète, by François Jeanneau

Une Bien Curieuse Planète

by François Jeanneau

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Arminda K Kaina's relentless driving key/synth lines with a sax line aggressively dancing around it all, then giving way to melting dripping chaos by about the 3:30 minute mark were enough to convince me to buy this. Favorite track: Kaina.

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1.	Triton 00:39	buy track
2.	Kaina 08:50	buy track
3.	Theme For An Unknown Island 02:54	buy track
4.	Fébrile Et Solitaire 04:28	buy track
5.	Une Bien Curieuse Planète 04:21	buy track
6.	Mr J.C. For Ever 04:26	buy track
7.	Nostalgique Futur 02:22	buy track
8.	Droit d'Asile 11:08	buy track
9.	À l'Ombre Des Forces Obscures - Triton II 04:10	buy track

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Paris, 1965. Pianist François Tusques laid the foundation stone of French-style free jazz with his first, soberly titled, album “Free Jazz”. Also in the team were several future key names of the French scene, (Michel Portal, Bernard Vitet, Beb Guérin, Charles Saudrais and François Jeanneau) all of whom honed their skills at the beginning of the decade in Jef Gilson’s groups, although he was none too fond of the turbulent new face of jazz at the time.

Ten years later, Jef Gilson had obviously changed his tune, as the label Palm that he had created in 1973 was now the launch pad for what would become the cream of French and international avant-garde jazz. This would notably be the case for François Jeanneau and “Une Bien Curieuse Planète”. His first album as leader (after briefly erring into pop with Triangle) was recorded in 1975, a few months after “Watch Devil Go” by his old friend Jacques Thollot, and with more or less the same casting: Jeanneau on sax of course, Jenny-Clark on bass and percussions, Lubat replacing Thollot on drums and Michel Grailler (plucked out of Magma) was called in as a reinforcement for his completely ‘out of space*’ synthetiser sounds. Thus began a strange trip to a very strange planet, at the border of experimental jazz and swinging avant-garde.

From 1960 to nowadays, from Georges Arvanitas to Laetitia Shériff, from Manu Dibango to “Mama” Béa Tékielski, everyone has wanted
to play with François Jeanneau at some point. There is a good reason for this. The saxophonist is a formidable improviser, but also a solid
composer, as he demonstrates on this record with, for example, the monumental “Droit d’Asile”, the spooky “Theme For An Unknown
Island” or the Coltranesque “Mr J.C. For Ever”. Over half a century later, the planet seems far more familiar to us. And François Jeanneau is
always on the front line for a guided tour.

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released February 3, 2023

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