O.U.R.S.
(Ornette Under the Repetitive Skies)
Jazz Quartet et musiques repetitives
"What's O.U.R.S.?
It's a cutting-edge quartet that's slicing the current jazz scene into so many playgrounds. O.U.R.S.? It has a progressive soul, and an almost classical form. O.U.R.S.?
It's an acronym for Ornette Under The Repetitive Skies. Its influences are Made in the USA, and it features Clément Janinet's perfect raw fusion of incandescent free jazz and the repetitive music popularized by Steve Reich. In other words, it's popular jazz.
It's adventurous, focused on both the concept and the opening, the enthusiasm of astounding leaps and the simple emotion of the clearest of melodies. The spirit of Coltrane, African trance, the vernacular dances of our ancestors and other revisited hymns of brotherhood are interwoven with a physical pulsation that comes from within.
After 2 critically acclaimed albums (4 Clés Télérama, Choc Jazz Magazine, Elu Citizenjazz etc), OURS will be released a new album on September 8 on the Hungarian Label BMC Records
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Past Events
Jazz Summer Academy Lodz (PL)
Budapest Music Center (HU)
Vanves Theater
Banlieues Bleues Festival
L' Arrosoir (Châlon sur Saône)
Pannonica (Nantes)
La Fraternelle
Greenery Theater of Monceaux-Ragny
Periscope (Lyon)
Day of Querbes Festival
Biennale Nemo....
Booking
Line Up
Clement Janinet : Violin, Compositions
Hugues Mayot : Tenor saxophone, Bass Clarinet
Joachim Florent : Double bass
Emmanuel Scarpa : Drum
Artists based in France
Albums
To listen
Press
Telerama:
“Jazz violinist Clément Janinet and his accomplices deliver an explosive album full of nobility”
"The whole gives off such a lively poetry, constitutes a musical body so full of smooth curves and sharp edges, a baroque construction whose thousand facets fascinate well beyond a single listen" Louis Julien Nicolaou
Télérama "disc of the week"
“Bringing together repetitive music and free jazz, the violinist and his accomplices invent a baroque style, as brutal as it is seductive.” Louis Julien Nicolaou
Jazzmagazine:
The two extremes weave together with finesse and the neighboring ostinato and generate a melodic somnambulism à la Ornette. Dense, compact, concise, on forms that are most often brief, even very often brief, but all of them with a necessary dreamlike quality. Franck Bergerot
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“We can say that, in terms of the composition as well as the cohesion of the group, the inspiration of the soloists as well as the supreme freedom which consists in eating without looting, in remembering without harping, it's really impeccable. To discover urgently. » Xavier Prevost