An off-track, frenetic and exciting improvisation session bringing together musicians who have known each other for many years and are playing together for the first time.
"Alexei and I met in the 90's when he was touring in Europe and when I was co-running the Rectangle record label. We became friends but never played together at that time. Every time he came to Paris, we only met for a few hours. When I heard he had a day off from his tour with ASTMA (the duo with Olga Nosova), I thought it would the opportunity to eventually meet musically. On that day Jérôme Lorichon and I were supposed to be working on our duo set, so we transformed that in a double-duo recording. What you hear on this album is the music that surged naturally from playing together for the first time."
Quentin Rollet
Alexei Borisov: electronics, guitar, voice.
Jérôme Lorichon: electronics.
Olga Nosova: drums, voice, effects.
Quentin Rollet: saxes, effects.
Alexei Borisov (born 1960 in Moscow) is a Russian musician, composer, producer, sound artist, event organizer, DJ, active in the Russian underground music scene since the beginning of the 1980s, and a member of Night Prospekt, F.R.U.I.T.S., Volga, ASTMA, Fake Cats Project and various other projects.
Jérôme Lorichon, multi-instrumentalist and improviser, is a founding member of Purr and The Berg Sans Nipple. Percussionist of Zombie Zombie, bassist/keyboardist/trumpet player of Don Nino, he played with Erik Minkkinen (with whom he founded Capricorne Band and Antilles in trio with
Lionel Fernandez),
Quentin Rollet,
Ghédalia Tazartès, Yeti Lane, Heliogabale, Orval Carlos Sibelius, My Name Is Nobody...
Olga Nosova is a drummer, vocalist and sound artist from Russia, participating in various experimental, electronic and avantgarde projects, most notably—avantgarde/noise-punk band Motherfathers, and duo-project with
Alexei Borisov (both as Borisov/Nosova and ASTMA). She collaborates with many Russian and international projects, musicians and sound-artists: Louis Rastig, Els Vandeweyer,
Peter Brötzmann, Thomas Lehn, Miriam Siebenstadt, Olivie Di Placido, Dario Fariello, Giuseppe Birardi, Dave Phillips, A-Spirale, Sergei Letov, Ilia Belorukov, Volga, Notchnoi Prospekt, Kurt Liedwart, Edgars Rubenis, Thomas Buckner, Jandek, John Hegre, Pekka Airaksinen, Anton Mobin... She plays electronics, as well as a wide range of acoustic instruments and sound objects.
Quentin Rollet (born 1974) started playing the alto saxophone at the age of 11 and the sopranino saxophone at 37. After a few years spent unlearning the teaching of the conservatory, he devoted himself solely to free improvisation. This led him to play on record or on stage with groups as varied as
Nurse With Wound, Prohibition, The Red Krayola, Mendelson,
David Grubbs, Herman Dune,
Akosh S. Unit,
Thierry Müller, Rubin Steiner,
eRikm,
Jac Berrocal,
Andrew Liles, Bästard, Ulan Bator,
Costes,
Red,
Melmac, Dragibus, Phoebe Killdeer & The Short Straws,
Jérôme Lorichon,
Charlie O, Dan-Charles Dahan, Zsolt Söres, Pal Toth, Jean-Noël Cognard, Jean-Pierre Barja, Rivkah, Benoît de Villeneuve...... He is a member of
Pointe du Lac, and the co-founder of the labels
Rectangle (with
Noël Akchoté),
reQords and
Bisou Records.
