Thursday 14 March 2019, 7.30pm
Frédéric Blondy / piano
Bertrand Denzler / tenor saxophone
Jean-Luc Guionnet / alto saxophone
Jean-Sébastien Mariage / electric guitar
Edward Perraud / percussion
In 2019, Hubbub celebrates its 20th anniversary. At the crossroad of different worlds, the group comprises five musicians with activities in various fields. Together, they work on the sound matter to create a moving electro-acoustic space inhabited by layers, distensions, imbrications, pulsations, dots and lines. Thanks to the longevity of the group, Hubbub has developed an own universe, which is more than just the sum of its parts.
“Imagine the opening fanfare of Strauss’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra slowed down so it takes a year to play.” – Daniel Spicer, The Wire
Founded in 1999, Hubbub has played dozens of concerts in France, England, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Portugal, Serbia, USA, Canada, Brasil and Colombia. The group has published three albums on Matchless Recordings – the label of Eddie Prévost, who'll be performing a rare solo set tonight – and one on For4Ears Records, Günter Müller’s label, as well as a DVD on OE dans l’O in collaboration with Clotilde Aksin. Recorded in 2018, a new CD is in preparation.
A founder-member of AMM (1965-2022)
“[Eddie Prévost’s] is one of the greatest metallurgists that music has produced. […] sparks delicately arcing through the air, of slow lava ingesting its surroundings, of the shifting grind of tectonic plates across each other, of the rustle and glint of a firebird darting between shadows, and of ore smashing into the surface of the earth; but perhaps this language is overwrought: all that needs to be remarked upon is Prévost's industry, his diligence.”
Nathan Moore — liner note to AMM’s ‘Indúsria’
Matchless Recordings mrcd105.
But beyond this work Prévost has also maintained a relationship with the jazz drum-kit.
“His free drumming flows superbly making perfect use of his formidable technique, but his most startling feature is his stylelessness. It’s as though there has never been an Elvin Jones or a Max Roach.” - review of a set with saxophonist Lou Gare, Melody Maker (27.03.1975)
“Prévost, meanwhile, was simply miraculous; it was fascinating to watch him and to compare his approach with that of a Kern or a Nilssen-Love. I can only say that he was possessed of an uncanny, burning intentness that navigated the ensemble through passages of stark, sculpted beauty, grave concentration and full-on, bristling energy.”
Blue Tomato, Vienna 2012. In concert with Marilyn Crispell and Harrison Smith. Richard Rees-Jones
“An excellent release from one of the finest percussionists around, jazz or otherwise.” review of Prévost’s solo CD ‘Collider’
Matchless Recordings mrcd106 – Brian Olewnic, Squidsear (2022).
“Relentlessly innovative yet full of swing and fire.” – Morning Star
