{"product_id":"leon-phal_stress-killer-vinyl_2023_lad","title":"STRESS KILLER (vinyl)","description":"The tenor of the new wave of French jazz releases a third album, honoring the pioneers of the genre with relentless groove and compositional skill. Saxophonist Léon Phal refuses to rest on his laurels. Brilliantly graduated from the Conservatoire and the Haute Ecole de Musique, winner of the Nancy Jazz Pulsations and Jazz à Vienne 2019 competitions; the thirty-something, promoted as a representative of the new and thriving jazz scene, has only one desire that has become an obsession: to always go further. To push the limit. Maintaining this path of constant progression means breaking with certain practices, such as freeing oneself from codes and habits. Forgetting academic notions, moving away from a purely jazz approach to, without losing touch, combining it with modern codes. For precisely blackened scores, Léon Phal preferred the inspiration of the moment, that which arises when, like an electro or hip-hop producer, he settles alone in his studio, facing his machines. Search. Synthesize rhythms, design arrangements. Feel the groove taking shape and settling in as an obvious fact. Sequence, \"loop.\" Keep searching. The right sound, the right texture to achieve. To hear. And finally reinterpret everything. No longer alone, but with the core group of musicians that constitutes the quintet. Connected on the same frequencies, responding to the same references, it was with them that the two previous albums were made, and it was also with them that 'Stress Killer' was built and recorded. In Arthur Alard's drums, Rémi Bouyssière's double bass, Gauthier Toux's keyboards, and Zacharie Ksyk's trumpet, the zeros and ones created born in printed circuits then take on organic life. Both animated and driven by the desire to make people dance. By approaching jazz as club music, making an almost childlike melody or a few keyboard notes the first sparks that will ignite the rhythms. The infernal loops that will be difficult to break free from, a focus of intensity that will grow crescendo until the ecstatic liberation of the dancers. Léon Phal's saxophone, master of ceremonies for this fusion, releasing notes that will speak to bodies in moments of intense and sweaty trance, as well as to the mind for astral journeys under synthesizers.","brand":"Leon Phal","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55310246412632,"sku":null,"price":20230915.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/4943\/0360\/files\/3521381579192_2ff0873a-ab05-48ba-b4b4-40fdb9553b7a.jpg?v=1760318491","url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en\/products\/leon-phal_stress-killer-vinyl_2023_lad","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}