ヨーロッパのトップ・ジャズ・ミュージシャン、エリック・トラファズによる、今年リリースされたアルバム『Rollin'』に続く映画曲集。

彼のシネマ・ストーリーの第2弾は、オリジナル・サウンドトラックから想起されるイメージを彼自身のイメージに置き換えるという奇跡を繰り返す。監督のブルーノ・ノイテンは言う:「エリック・トラファズの解釈は、語られる映画の記憶を越えて、作られることのなかった他の映画へのイマジネーションを広げる」。

クロード・ソーテ監督作品「すぎ去りし日の・・・」(1970)、デヴィッド・リンチ監督作品「イレイザーヘッド」(1977)、フィリップ・ラブロ監督作品「危険を買う男」(1977)、ジャン=リュック・ゴダール監督作品「軽蔑」(1963)、ジョルジュ・ロートネル監督作品「パリ大捜査網」(1968)、ハル・カンター監督作品エルヴィス・プレスリー主演作品「さまよう青春」(1957)、ジャン=ピエール・メルヴィル監督作品「影の軍隊」(1969)、ニコラ・ヴァニエ監督「ベル&セバスチャン」(2013)

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In 2020, film director Marie-France Briere approached trumpeter Erik Truffaz about composing music for Les iles de Napoleon, a documentary. Afterward, she requested that the trumpeters quartet play a concert of themes from French cinema to close a film festival. The band enjoyed it so much that they asked Truffaz to approach Blue Note about releasing two distinct albums of cinema themes. Rollin appeared early in the year, and Clap! appeared later. Co-produced by the trumpeter and bassist Marcelo Giuliani, the rest of the band includes percussionist Raphael Chassin, keyboardist Alexis Anerile, and guitarist Matthis Pascaud. For Clap!s eight selections, Truffaz allowed himself (and his sidemen) to conjure new musical and sonic images from the chosen themes, as well as the movies they accompany. The quintet weaves the new music and exploratory sounds and textures into complementary interpretations offering different, sometimes deeper associations for the themes through modern jazz and Truffazs creative process. Opener "Les Choses de la Vie" is the title theme to Claude Sautets 1970 romantic drama and was composed by Philippe Sarde. The original scene saw Michel Piccolis sportscar speeding through the bucolic countryside. The somewhat jaunty original has been reimagined. Its spectral and unwinds slowly, creating space as well as dynamic tension that hovers between Eastern and Western harmonies. When Truffaz solos, the tunes body unfurls gradually, encountering modal blues, post-bop, and ambient music a la Jon Hassell. Veteran French singer/songwriter Bertrand Belin lends his striking baritone to Peter Ivers "In Heaven" from David Lynchs film Eraserhead. While almost totally faithful to the original, the textured electronic backdrops, lounge guitar shuffle, and elegant trumpet add dimension while Belin completely inhabits the lyrics that knowingly and lecherously address the false promise of paradise on earth. "Theme de Camillel" is a duet between the trumpeter and Aneriles various keyboards. Its tender, lyrical, and bittersweet in representing the final conversation in a couples romantic dissolution. Its speculative while reflecting tragedy. "Requiem pour un con - Le pacha" was composed by Michel Colombier (who composed several selections here) and Serge Gainsbourg. A noir-ish, mutant, instrumental approach crosses brittle, funky jazz-rock driven by Pascauds electric guitar before Aneriles Rhodes and Hammond B-3 frame the leaders lyrical muted trumpet solo. The inclusion of "Lonesome Cowboy" featuring outsider American singer/songwriter Stone Jack Jones in duet with Truffaz, is an outlier. Originally sung by Elvis Presley in the film Loving You, here its rendered as a tender, lonesome country song with Truffazs restrained horn hovering above Jones fingerpicked acoustic guitar. Closer "LOiseau - Belle et Sebastien" by Eric Demarsan and Daniel White, is the title theme to a French childrens television series from 1965. Rendered softly and deliberately by a trio, Truffaz quotes from "Summertime" before articulating the theme, then adds lines and fragments from other standards -- "My Funny Valentine," "Shadow of Your Smile" -- amid brushed snare and a woody, languid, walking bassline. Along with its predecessor, Clap! makes for an indispensable project from Truffaz. His idiosyncratic, carefully articulated jazz approach to film music is distinctive and resonant and stands with his best work. ~ Thom Jurek

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