INSTANTANÉS - Quintet album featuring Markus Stockhausen|INSTANTANÉS - Quintet album featuring Markus Stockhausen

The most beautiful musical moments of a week in Paris for this quintet, at the club "Le Duc des Lombards" in 1997.

Antoine Hervé is on piano, Markus Stockhausen on trumpet, François Moutin on double bass, Louis Moutin on drums, and Arnaud Frank on percussion.

The recording and the mix are from a great signature: Simon Derasse. 

11 tracks: 1. Long Hair Woman (10:53) 2. Soul As A Dance (6:44) 3. La Fille Bleue (5:43) 4. Sharing (8:23) 5. Silence Comes In Waves (5:07) 6. Serenity (9:16) 7. La Boite A Musique (5:54) 8. Something About Wolfgang (2:07) 9. Salsita (3:31) 10. Chango- Chango (1:44)

Total duration: 71'33

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PRESS REVIEW:

Pianist, composer, conductor, artistic director, and producer Antoine Hervé is a household name on the French music scene. After graduating from the Paris Conservatory, he received several prizes, including the Django Reinhardt Award from the Académie du Jazz in 1985. From 1987 to 1989, he conducted the French Orchestre National de Jazz in more than 140 concerts and for several productions. Hervé also founded several organizations and composed for musicals and contemporary classical ensembles. In the jazz field, he performed or recorded with international stars such as Dee Dee Bridgewater, Gil Evans, Quincy Jones, Chet Baker, Martial Solal, and Didier Lockwood. In the fall of 1997, Hervé presented a unique quintet at the Duc de Lombards jazz club in Paris. It consisted of one of Europe's most impressive trumpet players, Markus Stockhausen (the son of German composer Karl-Heinz Stockhausen), the French top-notch rhythm team of twin brothers François and Louis Moutin, and percussionist Arnaud Franck, who worked extensively with African musicians. Such was the success of their collective effort that Hervé decided to release the live recordings on CD, partly as a tribute to the Paris audience. Says the bandleader: “In live music and collective improvisation, the audience plays an active role in the creative process. Concentration and the ability to listen provide a large part of the energy the artist needs to achieve coherent musical forms in real time.” Ranging from free-flowing collective fantasies to refined funky grooves, “Invention Is You” offers music full of charm and surprise due to its spontaneous origin in a very special situation. Several of the tunes are totally improvised without any prior conception and show the great empathy, mutual trust, and intimacy among the five musicians. “These sessions mean a lot in my musical life,” says Hervé. “May these musical moments open a window to our inner silence and touch our hearts.”  

"profound and brilliant music" 

The best moments from this quintet recorded live over four days at the Duc des Lombards (Paris) in 1997. Featuring Markus Stockhausen on trumpet, François Moutin on double bass, Louis Moutin on drums, Arnaud Frank on percussion, and Antoine Hervé on piano.

11 tracks: 1. Long Hair Woman (10:53) 2. Soul As A Dance (6:44) 3. La Fille Bleue (5:43) 4. Sharing (8:23) 5. Silence Comes In Waves (5:07) 6. Serenity (9:16) 7. La Boite A Musique (5:54) 8. Something About Wolfgang (2:07) 9. Salsita (3:31) 10. Chango- Chango (1:44)

Total duration: 71'33

Remarkable sound by Simon Derasse.

Reviews of the CD "Instantanés" reissued under the title "INVENTION IS YOU"

"Profound and brilliant music."

"A pianist and composer who rose to prominence in the early 1980s and musical director of a renowned national jazz orchestra (1987-1989), Antoine Hervé now indulges in the joys of improvisation with this quintet to the joys of improvisation, with a perfectly confident taste for risk. Drawing on the reflexes developed in a trio with the Moutin brothers—François on double bass and Louis on drums—Antoine Hervé gives percussionist Arnaud Frank complete freedom to intervene as he pleases, while reserving a special place for the poetic universe of trumpeter Markus Stockhausen."

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• 1) MP3 256 kb/s + PDF cover (130 MB) - easy to manage.

• 2) FLAC + PDF cover (385 MB) – high-quality compression, identical sound to the original CD – for audiophiles.

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