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D’Agala

By Sylvie Courvoisier Trio

Album: D'Agala -- Sylvie Courvoisier

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The nine pieces on D’AGALA are dedicated to people who admired and influenced Courvoisier. The title tune is for pianist Geri Allen, “one of three dedicatees who passed away as this June 2017 recording was in preparation – the others being guitarist John Abercrombie and French politician, women’s rights advocate and Holocaust survivor Simone Veil. Two pieces are for sculptors, Martin Puryear who merges organic and geometric forms, and Louise Bourgeois. On “Bourgeois’s Spiders,” Courvoisier is all over the piano – plucking or strumming strings inside, or playing with one hand inside and one on the keys, or rattling around on the metal frame. Sometimes the band sounds like a trio of percussionists; they’re that rhythmically acute”, writes Kevin Whitehead in the liner notes and adds: “Some pianists approach the instrument like it’s a cathedral. Sylvie Courvoisier sometimes treats it like a playground”.

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