CHAMBRE 13

Lydia Domancich (keyboards)
Daniel Beaussier (sax, oboe, clarinet)
Pierre Marcault (percussion)
Stella Vander (voice)

Gimini Music
réf : GM 1007

IN THE PRESS

"Lydia Domancich's music is rooted in the idea of cultural crossbreeding : somewhere between jazz (improvisation over chord sequences), traces of her classical training, her connections with contemporary music (in the use of certain harmonies and intervals), a partiality for African rhythms, and an obvious interest in voices... The result is an alternation and/or mixture of melancholic compositions, odd reminiscences of nursery rhymes... themes of spellbinding dynamism that leave a lot of space to percussion and wind instruments. Lydia Domancich displays a unique talent for creating atmospheres and musical colours through the use of synthesizers and samplers. Few pianists have achieved this, and even fewer keyboardists manage to strike a successful balance between acoustic and electronic sounds. This is yet another reason to venture into her unique musical world.." (Sylvain Siclier - Jazzman)

... "The pieces that use texts, always meticulously selected and served - most strikingly in the madrigalesque treatment of Petrarch's "Dolce Ire" -, are probably the album's strongest moments. Yet they are also its softest and most insinuating, emerging like sandbanks and forming landmarks amidst orchestral beaches that play on the ambiguity of a sophisticated primitivism, of a telluric and wilful dreamworld. This music is a daydream which slowly gives substance to an elementary world - barely a blossom but already desirable." (P.-L. Renou - Jazz Magazine)

... "Music of higher subtlety"... (Le Quotidien du médecin)