- Régis Huby Violins, Electronics, Compositions
- Marc Ducret Guitars
- Bruno Angelini Piano, Fender Rhodes, Little Phatty, Electronics
- Michele Rabbia Percussions, Electronics
Recorded by Sylvain Thevenard (Studios La Buissonne - France) Mixed by Sylvain Thevenard Mastered by Marwan Danoun (Galaxy Studios - Belgium) Steinway tuned and prepared by Alain Massonneau Photo Cover Brian Siskind Photo Quartet Jérôme Prébois
Label: Abalone Productions
An excerpt from Race et Histoire (1952), by Claude Lévi-Strauss, serves as a commentary on this ambitious record by the violinist Régis Huby: "We must therefore listen to the wheat that rises, encourage the secret potentialities, awaken all the vocations to live together that history holds in store; we must also be ready to envisage without surprise, without repugnance and without revolt what all these new social forms of expression cannot fail to offer. "For Régis Huby and his companions, crossing cultures on an equal footing means starting with the rigour of Bach, continuing with the expressiveness of rock, engaging in the sinuous repetitions of a Steve Reich, discovering their own astonishment with a mixture of innocence and hyper-consciousness. The work is presented in three movements, each of which breaks down into parts with sharp contrasts, ranging from harmonic seduction to noisy titillations. Each of the instrumentalists brings his or her own imagination and contributes to creating a world which, placed under the aegis of jazz, comes close to the visual experiments of tachism, op art and pop art. Marc Ducret, as we know, is the guitarist who stubbornly refuses the slightest bit of beauty; Bruno Angelini, on the piano as on other keyboards, throws colour to the skies; Michele Rabbia, on percussion and electronics, puts mystery into the noises; and finally Régis Huby, this intrepid musician, knows how to give the ensemble the forms of an enamoured geometry. Incurious, abstain. - Michel Contat (Telerama n°3477 - 29/08/2016)