Hifiklub Vs Fatso Jetson + Gary Acre - Double Quartet Series Volume 1 (CD)

HIFIKLUB:  Toulon, France.

Collaboration is an essential ingredient to this open band’s creative approach, forming a recurring theme in Hifiklub’s extensive discography and filmography. Based in Toulon, the hyperactive experimental rock collective offer a diverse ever-evolving catalogue that now boasts over 200 artist collaborations since they started in 2006.

Free Jazz is one of the legendary albums in the history of jazz. Beyond its immense interest from a strictly musical point of view, this Ornette Coleman album offers, from 1960, the first collective improvisation around a device as disconcerting as it was innovative for the time: that of placing – in the stereo mix – a first quartet on the left, and another on the right.

This manifesto album contains the potential for future avant-garde developments in jazz, including abstraction (purification of tonalities, melody, structure) and multiplicity (polyrhythm, collective improvisation), two dynamics that converge towards the abandonment of a single clearly defined line and guide the music in favor of an instinctive musical abundance.