Yolk Records

Le Gros Cube is getting pampered!
For this new program, three singers, two pianists, a second drummer and a light engineer are joining the team. Alban Darche reshaped his orchestra to help serve Queen, the legendary British rock band, and create more modern, re-arranged and ‘rocked-up’ pieces.
Far from being a suite of covers, le Gros Cube make some well-chosen songs theirs and aim at defending a universal music: PoP music. in Freddie Mercury’s shoes are three singers, three personalities: Thomas de Pourquery’s extravaganza, F.M.’s poetry and Arnaud Guillou’s seriousness.
le Gros Cube thinks big and goes all-out for a large- scale creation following in the footsteps of the over- the-top British band.

Alban Darche's "gros cube"
Amongst all the machine-linked metaphors used in the history of large groups in jazz, that of Alban Darche’s Gros Cube (literally “Big Bike”) is unusual, but absolutely perfect for describing this brand new band formed in nantes, France,
in 2002. it can purr, snore, or roar in turn; it can even gleam and sparkle, but it never goes over the top. The impression it leaves is less one of a Formula 1 engine than that of a gleeful ballet of bikers out for a good time, swept along in a masterly choreography. Alban Darche succeeds in inventing the most improbable combinations of instruments out of the strictly classical instrumentation of the typical Big Band; he’s constantly putting sections together then dismounting them, as if it were all a musical meccano and he’s a child “screwing” the new sounds together with his particularly gifted hands.
each of the 16 members of the band – all soloists – seems galvanised into action by a strong sense of liberty, thanks to the roaring breakaways the coherent and spectacular orchestration allows them. As for the collective harmonised parts, they all show an outstanding “vocal” quality that is virtually unknown in current instrumental jazz.

1 queen bishop opening 02:39
2 bicycle race 02:55
3 death on two legs 04:00
4 jealousy 03:31
5 I'm going slightly mad 05:44
6 love of my life 03:45
7 the prophet's song 03:16
8 seaside rendez-vous 02:22
9 innuendo 09:21
10 transition to the killer queen 02:19
11 white queen 05:15
12 bohemian rhapsody 07:43
13 ogre battle 04:51

lyrics & music freddie mercury except
7.11 : brian may
and
1.10 : alban darche

arrangements : alban darche

Le Cube >> Le Thé
Le Gros Cube >> La martipontine
Le Gros Cube >> LE PAX, Le Gros Cube VS Katerine
Le Gros Cube >> Polar mood
Le Cube >> Autorité Culinaire
Quartethno >> quartethno
OLH Acoustic >> une vie sans lune
Jazzophone quartet >> blues for geo
Jazzophone cie + Tim Berne >> mosaiques
Qüntêt >> on the road enfin...
OLH Acoustic >> G. meets K.
Jazzophone >> yellow suite
Alban Darche trio >> trickster
Qüntêt >> vents dominants
Alban Darche trio >> brut ou demi sec?
D. Casimir & Yolk en cuisine >> Phonotaxis ou le génome de la vache
Quartethno >> tawada
Le Cube >> Frelon Rouge
JASS >> JASS
Orphicube >> perception instantanée
Le Gros Cube #2 >> Histoire sans paroles
Alban Darche hyprcub >> Crooked House
Qüntêt featuring Desdamona >> Mots croisés/ Crosswords
JASS >> mix of sun and clouds
Orphicube >> Atomic Flonflons
Jean-Christophe Cholet - Alban Darche - Mathias Ruëgg >> Le tombeau de Poulenc
Clover >> Vert Emeraude
PACIFIC >> PACIFIC
Longboard >> Being wild
Le Gros Cube #2 >>
Clover >> Paradigme
Dandy Dandie >> Hypnos & Morphée
Alban Darche et Loïs Le Van >> Les mots bleus
Alban Darche et Loïs Le Van >> Lazy Afternoon

Le Gros Cube >> LE PAX, Le Gros Cube VS Katerine
Le Gros Cube >> Polar mood

Alban Darche trio >> trickster
Alban Darche trio >> brut ou demi sec?

UNIT >> wavin'
Le Gros Cube >> La martipontine
Le Cube >> Le Thé
Le Gros Cube >> LE PAX, Le Gros Cube VS Katerine
Le Gros Cube >> Polar mood
Le Cube >> Autorité Culinaire
Triade >> japan edition
Triade >> l'ardu
A suivre... x'tet >> paris-calvance
A suivre... x'tet >> variations alterees
Hazebrouck sextet >> frasques
D. Casimir & Yolk en cuisine >> Phonotaxis ou le génome de la vache
Le Cube >> Frelon Rouge
Wood (boisseau-donarier) >> WOOD
JASS >> JASS
Orphicube >> perception instantanée
Alban Darche hyprcub >> Crooked House
La Musique de Salon >> 1 salon, 2 musiciens
JASS >> mix of sun and clouds
Orphicube >> Atomic Flonflons
Orbit >> Orbit
Clover >> Vert Emeraude
Le Gros Cube #2 >>
Clover >> Paradigme
Le Gros Cube #2 >> Histoire sans paroles
David Chevallier quartet >> Curiosity
Orbit >> In-visibility
Jean-Paul Delore, Louis Sclavis, Sébastien Boisseau >> Langues et lueurs

Le Gros Cube >> La martipontine
Le Gros Cube >> LE PAX, Le Gros Cube VS Katerine
Le Gros Cube >> Polar mood
Daniel Casimir >> eros et thanatos
ETVBT >> wunschklang
D. Casimir & Yolk en cuisine >> Phonotaxis ou le génome de la vache

Le Cube >> Le Thé
Le Gros Cube >> LE PAX, Le Gros Cube VS Katerine
Le Gros Cube >> Polar mood
Francis et ses peintres >> la paloma
Print & friends >> around k
Le Gros Cube #2 >>
Le Gros Cube #2 >> Histoire sans paroles

Orphicube >> perception instantanée
Orphicube >> Atomic Flonflons
Jean-Christophe Cholet - Alban Darche - Mathias Ruëgg >> Le tombeau de Poulenc
Nathalie Darche joue Geoffroy Tamisier >> 15 berceuses
Dandy Dandie >> Hypnos & Morphée


Matthieu Donarier trio >> live forms
Le Gros Cube >> La martipontine
UNIT >> wavin'
Le Gros Cube >> LE PAX, Le Gros Cube VS Katerine
Le Gros Cube >> Polar mood
Matthieu Donarier trio >> optic topic
Kindergarten >> kindergarten
D. Casimir & Yolk en cuisine >> Phonotaxis ou le génome de la vache
Wood (boisseau-donarier) >> WOOD
Orphicube >> perception instantanée
Matthieu Donarier trio >> Papier Jungle
Jean-Christophe Cholet - Alban Darche - Mathias Ruëgg >> Le tombeau de Poulenc
Adieu mes très belles >> Adieu mes très belles
Longboard >> Being wild
Santi Quintans' TIPTRICK >> Kiss the Joy
Le Gros Cube #2 >>
Le Gros Cube #2 >> Histoire sans paroles


Le Gros Cube >> La martipontine
Le Cube >> Le Thé
Le Gros Cube >> LE PAX, Le Gros Cube VS Katerine
Le Gros Cube >> Polar mood
Le Cube >> Autorité Culinaire
Francis et ses peintres >> la paloma
Qüntêt >> vents dominants
LPT3 >> deja 7h!?...
Le Cube >> Frelon Rouge
Orphicube >> perception instantanée
Alban Darche hyprcub >> Crooked House
Jazzarium >> Megapolis
Qüntêt featuring Desdamona >> Mots croisés/ Crosswords
LPT3 >> Vents Divers
Orphicube >> Atomic Flonflons
Jean-Christophe Cholet - Alban Darche - Mathias Ruëgg >> Le tombeau de Poulenc
Le Gros Cube #2 >>
Le Gros Cube #2 >> Histoire sans paroles
David Chevallier quartet >> Curiosity



Le Gros Cube >> La martipontine
Le Gros Cube >> LE PAX, Le Gros Cube VS Katerine
Le Gros Cube >> Polar mood
Qüntêt >> on the road enfin...
A suivre... x'tet >> paris-calvance
Le souffle des terroirs >>
A suivre... x'tet >> variations alterees
Qüntêt >> vents dominants
LPT3 >> deja 7h!?...
D. Casimir & Yolk en cuisine >> Phonotaxis ou le génome de la vache
A suivre... x'tet >> suite... de danses
Brass danse orchestra >> La danse du souffle
Jazzarium >> Megapolis
Qüntêt featuring Desdamona >> Mots croisés/ Crosswords
LPT3 >> Vents Divers
Clover >> Vert Emeraude
Yves Rousseau 7tet - >> Fragments
Santi Quintans' TIPTRICK >> Kiss the Joy
Le Gros Cube #2 >>
Clover >> Paradigme
Le Gros Cube #2 >> Histoire sans paroles

Le Gros Cube >> La martipontine
Le Gros Cube >> LE PAX, Le Gros Cube VS Katerine
Le Gros Cube >> Polar mood
A suivre... x'tet >> paris-calvance
A suivre... x'tet >> variations alterees
Jazzophone >> yellow suite
ETVBT >> wunschklang
Orphicube >> perception instantanée
Alban Darche et Loïs Le Van >> Les mots bleus
Alban Darche et Loïs Le Van >> Lazy Afternoon

Le Gros Cube >> La martipontine
Le Gros Cube >> LE PAX, Le Gros Cube VS Katerine
Le Gros Cube >> Polar mood
Francis et ses peintres >> la paloma
Le souffle des terroirs >>
Out of the blue >> urban setting
Orphicube >> perception instantanée

Le Gros Cube >> La martipontine
Le Gros Cube >> LE PAX, Le Gros Cube VS Katerine
Le Gros Cube >> Polar mood
Le Cube >> Autorité Culinaire
Quartethno >> quartethno
OLH Acoustic >> une vie sans lune
Jazzophone cie + Tim Berne >> mosaiques
OLH Acoustic >> G. meets K.
Le souffle des terroirs >>
Geoffroy Tamisier trio >> au bonheur des anges
Quartethno >> tawada
Georgui Kornazov quintet >> staro vreme
Brass danse orchestra >> La danse du souffle
Jazzarium >> Megapolis
PACIFIC >> PACIFIC
Nathalie Darche joue Geoffroy Tamisier >> 15 berceuses
Le Gros Cube #2 >>
Le Gros Cube #2 >> Histoire sans paroles
Dandy Dandie >> Hypnos & Morphée

Alain Vankenhove >> beyond mountains
A suivre... x'tet >> suite... de danses
Qüntêt featuring Desdamona >> Mots croisés/ Crosswords