“Ten years have passed since the last album from Cube. This new album seems like a return to their roots, an intimate reunion with people who know naturally how to make the intricate music sound.
Back to roots, though a decade older: this latest album “Frelon Rouge” (“Red Hornet”) contains numerous references to historic jazz. It’s a classy, cool and stylish jazz that looks towards the West Coast or to Stan Getz’s and Hermeto Pascoal’s Bresil. Alban Darche also gives a nod to folk music and dance invoking folklore from the cities he has discovered on his travels.
Over the past decade Alban Darche has had time to develop his often perverse taste for quirky harmonic sequences, for contorted musical structures and overlapping numerical sequences. His aspiration is that the musical complexity is not easily perceptible but that the sound comes about almost effortlessly: a somewhat perverse delight it must be said”
Thierry Mallevaës
translation : Catherine O'Mahony
"Saxophonist Alban Darche‘s trio plays quirky music that sometimes slides into soothing melodic intervals. Music that uses odd meters to stir up a playful bounce, but when they kick back with a casual swagger, like on the nifty “Cafe du Change,” they shine brightest. Probably a good choice if you’re just getting into Jazz, and are into rock bands like Morphine. Very likable."
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