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Twigs --- 2023

The new band of quintessential French jazzman Vincent Courtois unites three nations, three generations, and three different approaches to music. Twigs, the first CD by this line-up, is moving in its intimacy, and reveals a lyrical musical world to the listener: as if the sacrificial rites of an imaginary ancient people were revived through the means of modern jazz. In Sanne Rambags, the cellist and bandleader has chosen a young trailblazer. The Dutch singer is seen as a future star not just in her homeland, but also on the international jazz scene, and she has garnered considerable critical acclaim with several bands (Under the Surface, Mudita). The third member of the trio, Swiss drummer and media artist Julian Sartorius, has for a decade now been one of the outstanding jazz musicians of the continent, as a member of the Colin Vallon Trio, for instance. As well as her own texts, as the basis for the compositions Sanne Rambags uses selections of poetry by Emily Brontë, Emily Dickinson, Federico García Lorca, and Pablo Neruda, which the unique instrumentation puts in a special light. The music of Twigs is song-centred chamber jazz spangled with improvisation, and into this unique style merge Sanne Rambags shamanistic folk-power, Vincent Courtois’ affinity with classic and contemporary music, and Julian Sartorius’s experimental vein. Vincent Courtois has recorded three other albums for BMC Records: in 2019 he released The Demons of Tosca, recorded with Sebastien Brun and Robin Fincker, in early 2023 there was Carmen Rhapsody, with Aki Takase, and in summer 2023 Nothing Else, jointly with Daniel Erdmann and Robin Fincker. Compositions by Sanne Rambags (1, 2, 4, 5, 9); Vincent Courtois (7, 10); Vincent Courtois, Julian Sartorius and Sanne Rambags (3, 6, 8, 11) Lyrics: Sanne Rambags (1, 6, 11), Emily Brontë (2), Pablo Neruda (4), Federico García Lorca (5), Emily Dickinson (7, 9) Recorded at BMC Studio, Budapest on 4-6 July, 2022 Recorded, mixed and mastered by Viktor Szabó Artwork: Anna Natter / Cinniature Produced by László Gőz Label manager: Tamás Bognár