Firstly the musicians’ nationalities: Biondini (born 1971) comes from Spoleto in the Italian province of Perugia, Michel Godard (born 1960) comes from Héricourt near Belfort in the Franche-Comté in France, and Lucas Niggli (born 1968) is Swiss, a native of the Zürich Oberland who spent the first seven years of his life in Cameroon. So this is a meeting of various cultures and languages.
A further particularity of the trio is its instrumental make-up. Biondini plays the accordion, Niggli the drums and all manner of percussion instruments; Michel Godard plays the tuba and the serpent – an ancient, serpentine wind instrument with a mouthpiece like a brass instrument but side holes like a woodwind instrument. Sometimes Godard also takes up the bass guitar.
Thanks to this highly individual and fascinating instrumental arsenal the trio has a truly spectral palette of sounds at their disposal. The music of Biondini, Godard and Niggli thrives on its poetry, the beauty of its sounds, the depth of its ideas, and also on its tension. This is generated by the weave between composition and improvisation. Which is how they succeed in making that connection between form and freedom which constitutes the core of jazz. On their album Mavì, released on Intakt Records, we hear music which seems to emanate from the spheres while remaining wholly worldly, emotional and sensual.
Featuring:
Luciano Biondini - accordion
Michel Godard - tuba, serpent
Lucas Niggli - drums, percussion
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