BORDENAVE,MATTHIEU - Terre De Sienne (Sealed) (CD)

With "Terre de Sienne" Matthieu Bordenave takes the step from being a mere improviser to becoming a composer and thereby establishing himself all the more strongly. Fine lines, broad strokes, luminous colour fields. Cyan-blue, amber, carmine red or yellow-brown Siena ochre. Saxophonist Matthieu Bordenave makes colours sound on his CD "Terre de Sienne". The tenor saxophone is his brush. He is synesthetist, i. e. he listens to colors and assigns them to certain tones and harmonies. When C minor sounds, a strong blue light appears in front of his inner eye. All compositions of the CD "Terre de Sienne" are named after colours. Bordenave laid down a coloured printed paper on the music stand to compose the music and was inspired by this colour to create a melody. Bass line and harmonies were added later. Thus, he created pieces in which strong, narrative melodies determine the harmonic progression. Matthieu Bordenave is concerned with the brushstroke, which connects his tones and not with constructed harmonies. His color music sings - and it appeals directly, although it is anything but conventional. His great quartet "Grande Angle" with guitarist Peter O' Mara, double bassist Henning Sieverts and drummer Shinya Fukumori brings the sounds to the screen in a vivid way. As the band's name suggests, the four musicians look at their interplay in a wide angle: saxophone and drums form the framework, while the double bass and guitar are lifted from their traditional roles, because they deliver voices, colour areas and shades. Airily easy to sail with this quartet through the azure blue of the sky, solidify to kanti-cold steel grey, meditate in a duo with tenor saxophone and drums over a herbal green miniature, suck in a deep emerald green melody or let warm from the ochre yellow earth of Siena. An important impulse for Bordenave are the preludes of the French composer Olivier Messiaen from 1928/29, whose eight pieces are assigned to different colour combinations by Messiaen, also synaesthetes. They have been formative pieces for Bordenave for a long time and finally also the impetus for this project. With "Terre de Sienne", the Frenchman Matthieu Bordenave dares to take the step from a pure improviser to a composer and thereby establishes himself even more strongly as one of the outstanding figures in contemporary European jazz. His tone paintings are timeless images of enchanted beauty and power.