HORS-TEMPS (vinyl)

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"To compose music that is deeply emotional, meta-sensual, music of eternal, infinite love, a love felt at the heart of nature and human art, without always understanding its origins. To play living music for the present but also for an 'afterlife' out of reach, to knead it, imagine it, summon it, celebrate it, to embody ourselves as mediums, conveyors of these timeless, ageless songs. Yet, a very real, physical, atmospheric music, almost levitating, with the intuition's connivance as its only tempo... To question everything anew, to put all the work back on the workbench. One must try to capture the essence of what can continue after the last breath. To remember our passage, through the ephemeral nature of sound... that sweet impossible dream, yet hoped for every moment." "HIS CELESTIAL AND DAZZLING JAZZ LITERALLY RUBS SHOULDERS WITH THE STARS. (Ouest France)" Edward PERRAUD - EDWARD WITH SILVER HANDS (Ouest France) "Edward Perraud draws intimate resonances of a salutary energy. A necessary album." --- JAZZ MAGAZINE---. "Edward Perraud is a frenzy of playing, a thirst for music, leading him to embrace all genres with brilliance." --- JAZZ NEWS ---. "The dizziness of emotion and the precision of compositions." --- TÉLÉRAMA ---. Percussionist, drummer, composer, improviser, researcher and photographer. He began playing guitar at the age of eight, then learned trombone and classical percussion at the CNR of Rennes. After a master's degree in musicology at the University of Rennes, he joined the doctoral program at IRCAM in 1996, where he obtained a DEA. He entered the CNSM of Paris in 1998, where he won a 1st prize in musical analysis. Classical, contemporary, jazz (student of Daniel Humair for 3 years at the CNSM), Indian (then in Calcutta with Biplab Battacharia on tablas) non-European music and free improvisation deeply marked his style as a percussionist. In 2001, he founded the European trio Das Kapital with Daniel Erdmann and Hasse Poulsen. For six years, they improvised without playing a single note from any repertoire. It was in 2009 that they decided to make a first tribute to the composer Hanns Eisler with the album Ballads & Barricades and won the award for best jazz album of 2011 in Germany: Preiss der deutsche Kritik. A second volume in homage to Eisler was released in 2012, 'Conflicts & Conclusion'. In 2013, Wim Wabbe asked the group Das Kapital to pay tribute to Hans Eisler with the Royal Wind Symphony Orchestra Vooruit. The album received the Académie Charles Cros 'Coup de cœur' award in 2016. In 2015, the group Das Kapital released the album Kind of Red on the prestigious French label: Label Bleu... Edward Perraud currently has some sixty albums to his credit on numerous labels worldwide (Germany, USA, Portugal, England, Switzerland, etc.). In 2005, with Françoise Dupas, he created his own label (Quark-records) which now boasts over twenty releases. In 2011, he formed his group: 'Synaesthetic Trip' with Benoit Delbecq, Bart Maris and Arnault Cuisinier, his first group as a leader. A second opus of his quartet was released in 2015 with saxophonists Thomas de Pourquery and Daniel Erdmann as guests. As a drummer and for his label Quarkrecords, Edward Perraud (with Thomas de Pourquery and his Supersonic orchestra) won the Jazz Album of the Year award at the Victoires de la Musique in 2014 with the album Play Sun Ra. In 2016, Ayat Najafi's film No Land's Song was released in cinemas, in which Edward Perraud plays his own role alongside singers Elise Caron, Jeanne Cherhal, and Emel Mathlouthi. In documentary form, the film won numerous international awards and advocates for women's right to sing as soloists before a mixed audience in Iran. In 2018, he became an associated artist of the Maison de la Culture d'Amiens and joined the prestigious French Jazz Label 'Label Bleu'. In 2018, he released his first album 'Espaces' with Bruno Chevillon and Paul Lay (an album awarded multiple accolades: Académie Charles Cros 'Coup de cœur', ffff by Télérama, and Album of the Year for Jazzmagazine). A versatile artist, he has confronted his music with other disciplines: dance, theatre, cinema, circus arts... he is also a photographer and has been exhibiting for several years. He is an actor in Damien Chazelle's Netflix series dedicated to the world of contemporary jazz, 'The Eddy'.