about this album
Dance is the pleasure of the body in movement. It's also the sensuality of gesture, of glances that replace words, a moment of abandonment to the pure pleasure of moving in space. Combined with music, they have the power to act on time, suspending it in a form of weightlessness, speeding it up to the point of dizziness, slowing it down to eternity.
Here, four breath experts enter the ring. They trace the contours, imagine the different tableaux, build the sets, choose chandeliers, garlands and chases to reveal the parquet, velvets and silouhettes.
“You have to have music inside you to make the world dance”, Nietzsce's phrase never leaves them, and you can hear them waltzing, tangoing, swishing, bopping, clacking, freestyling. They are at once the troupe, the corps de ballet, the couple, the star... Masters of breath and time, from the depths of their bellies to the tips of their lips, they're ready to give you wings.
The Brass Danse Orchestra doesn't have a passport, it has its own room in Brisbane with the BeeGees, regularly visits Uncle Kenny Wheeler in London, relaxes in Kingstone, recharges its batteries in Brazil or the Basques, and kisses Miles Davis and Juliette Gréco on the lips. “It's music and dance that put me at peace with the world”, declared Nelson Mandela, and there's no doubt that he could have integrated this tuba, this trombone, this accordion and this trumpet into the United Nations Orchestra.