Label:
Alain Bouhey Self-Released – tribulation III-I
Format:
Vinyl, LP, Album / Country: France / Released: 1988
Style:
Free Jazz, Contemporary Jazz, Free Improvisation
Recorded
At – Studio Adam, 1988. Mastered At – Top Master, France
Composed
By – Yochk'o Seffer
Photography
By – Roger Norymberg
Recorded
By, Mixed By – Philippe Beaucamp
Sleeve,
Concept By, Liner Notes, Producer – Alain Bouhey
Printed
By – Glory / Pressed By – MPO
Includes
16-page booklet and poster
Matrix
/ Runout (runout side A, hand etched): MPO III 1 A1
Matrix
/ Runout (runout side B, hand etched): MPO III-1 B
A1
- Self-System ..............................................................................................................
5:15
Piano – Yochk'o Seffer / Tenor
Saxophone – Alain Bouhey
A2
- Trabla-Air
.................................................................................................................
4:30
Piano – Yochk'o Seffer / Soprano
Saxophone – Alain Bouhey
A3
- Techouba (Hommage A John Coltrane)
.................................................................. 7:20
Bass Clarinet, Woodwind [Trabla] –
Yochk'o Seffer
Tenor Saxophone – Alain Bouhey
B - Szerkezet
I, Szoñata
..............................................................................................
19:21
1 Allegro Vivo (6:03)
Alto Saxophone – Alain Bouhey / Piano – Carol
Lipkind
2 Cadence (6:30)
Alto Saxophone – Alain Bouhey / Piano
[Improvisé] – Yochk'o Seffer
3 Largo Et Presto (6:43)
Alto Saxophone – Alain Bouhey / Piano – Carol
Lipkind
Personnel:
Alain
Bouhey – alto, tenor, soprano saxophones
Yochk’o
Seffer – piano, bass clarinet, woodwind [trabla]
Carol
Lipkind – piano (B-1 / B-3)
Avant
garde jazz recorded in the 80's by the French sax player Alain Bouhey with
Yochk'o Seffer and Carol Lipkind.
Limited private
pressing by Alain Bouhey with book, flyer and poster included.
Alain Bouhey is a pedagogist, author of several books on saxophone techniques. He was teacher in Senegal during the 1970s and is teaching saxophone in Rennes and Paris since the 1980s. This vinyl oddity is dedicated to Leopold Sédar Senghor, the poet and Senegal’s president from [1966 to 198?], himself a music lover and organizer of the 1st Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres (Black Arts Festival) in Dakar, 1966 (the LP from this festival is itself a strange thing).
On
‘La Voie Scriptorale’, Alain Bouhey’s saxophone playing is highly enjoyable,
without the shrieking sounds or violent demonstration from other free jazz horn
blowers. Magma’s multi-instrumentalist Yochk’o Seffer shows muscular abilities
in his keyboard ostinatos and arpegiatos, but he’s mixed a little behind Bouhey
so that the music is allowed to breathe. The A side has 3 delightful duets with
written sax parts and piano improvisation, except Techouba, a saxophone+bass
clarinet duet. The B-side is a piano+saxophone sonata with Bartok and atonal
reminiscences courtesy of Seffer himself, though it is probably partly
improvised rather than written down.
The
LP comes with a 16-pp LP-sized booklet of writings and technical diagrams by
Alain Bouhey.
If
you find it, buy this album!
