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Jean-Luc Guionnet

L'Epaisseur De L'Air (2LP)

Label: Thin Wrist Recordings

Format: 2LP

Genre: Jazz

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*2022 stock.* After more than three decades with the alto, heavyweight French artist and multi-instrumentalist Jean-Luc Guionnet arrives with his debut solo saxophone recording, a double-LP masterpiece, “l’épaisseur de l'air” (the thickness of air). Recorded in a barn in Brittany, the album merges texture, repetition, gesturality and architectural acoustics to create a definitive statement on the profound physical relationship between improviser and instrument. A student of Xenakis’ at the Sorbonne, Guionnet imbues the language of the saxophone with a sensual richness rife with a devastating sense of bliss.

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Cat. number: TW-R
Year: 2021
Notes:

Recorded at night, by JLG, in a semi-open shed, Berivanel, France, January 2018.
Mastering by Rashad Becker
DMM by Calyx Mastering

Artwork by JLG
Notes by Will Alexander, Andrew Choate
Design by SEEN Studio 

Heavy tip-on jacket including debossed and embossed inserts, gloss film laminate gatefold and textured uncoated paper. Includes download card.