Montrealer Rachel Therrien and New Yorker Albert Marquès came together to dialogue on the basis of a bold and often free improvisation, but which also reveals Latin colours, flamenco, groove. Therrien uses extended techniques while Marquès, superbly intuitive, adds to the discourse reflections that are sometimes in contrast, sometimes in symbiosis. A result that oscillates between atonal contemporary music and modern, even free and discursively fragmented jazz. Dialogue vol.1 requires attentive listening, often demanding but without neglecting seductive spaces of appeasement.
An album for rather discerning ears but one that knows how to reward them efficiently.
