ONJ OLIVIER BENOIT
Europa PARIS

Release date: June 2, 2014
ONJ Records 424444 / L’Autre Distribution

OLIVIER BENOIT guitar, compositions
JEAN DOUSTEYSSIER clarinets
ALEXANDRA GRIMAL tenor et soprano saxophones
HUGUES MAYOT alto saxophone
FIDEL FOURNEYRON trombone, tuba
FABRICE MARTINEZ trumpet, flugelhorn
THÉO CECCALDI violin, viola
SOPHIE AGNEL piano
PAUL BROUSSEAU Fender Rhodes, effects
BRUNO CHEVILLON double bass, electric bass
ERIC ECHAMPARD drums

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In a long orchestral suite that is fluid and expressionist, and whose tableaux waver between powerful masses of sound and moments more related to a private world of feelings and relationships, the first album of the ONJ, EUROPA PARIS, plunges us into a teeming universe where the writing and composing makes room for moments of free improvisation, resulting in a masterful mixture of jazz, rock, repetitive and minimalist music… Like a living photograph of the capital, boldly performed by the very same musicians in the orchestra who belong to this urban inspiration, the score of this first piece reveals its incomparable structure before finally allowing you to capture the poetic secret of Paris that emerges.

Recorde by Boris Darley & Céline Grangey assisted by Hugo Bracchi and Thomas Leroux, Studio Vogue / MidiLive, March 2014.
Mixed by Boris Darley and Olivier Benoit, Studio Sextan, April 2014.
Mastered by Marwan Danoun, Wisseloord Studios, April 2014.

With the support of

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