YETI (vinyl)

Description

A melodic and unique voice in European trumpet, with a distinctive sound, Yoann Loustalot brings together guitarist Giani Caserotto and drummer Stefano Lucchini for this new trio. The band's music oscillates between compositions and total improvisations. - - A rare lineup in both historical and contemporary contexts, this atypical trio of exceptional musicians takes us into their poetic and virtuosic world. - - 'Already in the mid-1990s, Dave Douglas's Tiny Bell Trio carved a niche in this unusual playing configuration: a trumpet, a guitar, and drums. Here, Yoann Loustalot's Trio Yeti experiments with this orchestral formula, making a striking first recording. This trio features the delicate and vehement trumpet or sovereign and capricious flugelhorn of leader-unifier Yoann Loustalot; his soaring melodies, his loving whispers, the expansive lyricism of Giani Caserotto's guitar; its supersonic saturations and other streaks, and the voluptuousness and rhythmic intensity of Stefano Lucchini's drums; his nuances and other textures. A superlative attentiveness is clearly audible (jazz prioritizes being together, an interplay of egos without the burdens and hindrances of an 'all about ego' mindset). Listening, space, fluidity, mobility. This is a powerfully orchestral triangular interplay; versatile, the functions of each musician change. In the spur of the moment. Freshness, the crumbling of the moment, the dazzle of collective improvisation; the nine tracks on this album are all first takes; it is evident. What do we know of the Yeti (a valid Scrabble word), this abominable snowman who lives in the high mountains of the Himalayas, in Tibet? What do we know of the music of Trio Yeti? That it forges its own path, in progress, intense, darkened by solar beauties, snow-covered with bursts and purity.' Franck Médioni