Dazibao Numbero 2

Description

It was obviously not the first time François Tusques was on the bill. In 1965, he recorded, with other French musicians sharing his vision (François Jeanneau, Michel Portal, Bernard Vitet, Beb Guérin and Charles Saudrais), the first free jazz album in France, entitled... Free Jazz. In 1967, Tusques again presented Le Nouveau Jazz, accompanied by Barney Wilen (and Beb Guérin, Jean-François Jenny-Clark and Aldo Romano).Three years later, between May and September 1970, the pianist recorded at home Piano Dazibao, an album where he multiplied joyful escapades, revealing himself as an iconoclastic critic. The following year, Tusques recorded Dazibao n° 2, which reveals an incisive observer of his time. Following in the footsteps of Don Cherry, met a few years earlier in Paris, he launches a call for "friendship among all the peoples of the world" against a backdrop of universalist anthems that transport us from Africa to Asia. But above all, it is a song for America, evoking the assassination of activist George Jackson and the Attica prison riot, before covering "Seize the Time" by Elaine Brown. Three years after the release of Dazibao n° 2, she would become the first (and only) woman to lead the Black Panther Party.The tumult of Piano Dazibao was opposed, on Dazibao n° 2, by long labyrinthine pieces with alternating dissonances and repetitions. Often using prepared piano, Tusques showed himself more percussive (even intoxicating) than ever, revealing a melody through solid hammer strikes or painting an image that radiated peace despite the storms. Piano Dazibao and Dazibao n° 2 thus form the two sides of the same coin, which bears the effigy of François Tusques, a national international monument!