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the 5th CD
THE BAY WINDOW
(2007, Songlines SA 1560-2)
...recent mp3 & video :
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Guillaume Orti Alto Sax
Benoît Delbecq Piano, prepared piano
Hubert Dupont Double Bass
Chander Sardjoe (NL) Drums
" A high temperature of creativity "
TELERAMA" A limpid journey "
LE MONDE" Kartet, immediately finding its place in the heart of today's modernity, will matter in the jazz of tomorrow."
JAZZ MAGAZINE
" A remarkable power of inspiration "
LA NOUVELLE REPUBLIQUE
" Apparently, an unsignificant formula. Usual orchestration. But then, surprise, as early as the first few bars, a freshness of inspiration which one believed to be condemned. To say simply, it's been a long time since a "jazz quartet" had sounded in a such an unorthodox way. Play-along with structure, tireless exploration of all possible combinations, independence of lines, poly-speeds, mobile architecture of the compositions... A shape of music in continuous metamorphosis as it pivots around the four players, and results in many simultaneous and complementary points of view on the same reality. A music which reconciles intellect and intuition as it combines a quasi-mathematical rigour with a sensitivity, an instrumental originality, and an attention to details forged by the supreme exercise of full improvisation. "
Those lines written in 1995 by Stéphane Ollivier, a french jazz-writer
in Jazz Magazine, are still up to date. Ten years later, Kartet's music
remains uncommonly fresh and special.
Kartet mainly performs in France, Benelux, Austria, Italy as well as
Northern Europe, Canada.
...recent mp3 & video :
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Kartet "Hask"
(1991 ; new edition by Hask / CD ADDA sold out)
Kartet "Pression"
CD Deux Z ZZ84118, dist. Harmonia Mundi - 1995
Kartet "Jellyfishing"
CD Pee Wee 025 - 1999
Produced by Vincent Mahey
and Kartet
Jyväskylä
CD Naïve - 2001
Produced by Hask
(H Dupont)(full 5'02)
(H Dupont)(edit 1'09)
Slices
(B Delbecq)(edit 0'46)
Orientable
K
(H Dupont)(edit
2'09)
Maat
(B Delbecq)(edit 1'09)
(H Dupont)(edit 2'00)
Jyväskylä
(G Orti)(edit 1'38)
Guillaume ORTI > saxophone, composition
Born in 1969, based in Paris since 1989, he is as well-known for his instrument playing as for his modern approach to improvisation. He was a member of Hask Collective and he performs with the following bands: Kartet, Bo Van Der Werf's Octurn (Brussels), Osmosis, François Merville Quintet, the drummer Jean-Pierre Jullian's Àghia Triadà, … In the duet Reverse, he explores improvisation in interaction with the computer of Olivier Sens.
He collaborates regularly in choregraphic or improvised dance projects with dancers such as Thierry Bae, Olivier Gelpe, Catherine Contour, Françoise Tessier, le groupe du 22 mai, Rosas, etc.
He works with the author Ghislain Mugneret on the relationship between text and music, especially for the duet A Mesure by Christine Bertocchi and Éric Chalan.
We have also seen and heard him play in Marc Ducret's Seven Songs, Gilles Coronado's Urban Mood, Triple Gee (with Gilles Coronado and Gilbert Roggi), Hubert Dupont's Altissimo, Franck Carlberg, or in Nato's productions. He has also played with Aka Moon, Noël Akchoté, Aldo Romano, Thierry Madiot, Malo Vallois, Sylvain Kassap, Hélène Labarrière, Christophe Marguet, Pepa Païvinen (FI), …
More info on Guillaume
Orti's website 
Benoît DELBECQ > piano, prepared piano, composition
Benoît Delbecq first appeared on
the national then international scene in the early 1990's, and since then
has continued to assert his original musical identity, notably as a member
of the bands Kartet, The Recyclers, PianoBook, Ambitronix, Les Amants
de Juliette, or with his own quintets with Steve Argüelles, Michael
Moore, François Houle, Jean-Jacques Avenel, Mark Helias, Marc Turner,
Emile Biayenda, Oone Van Geel … or Pool Players, with Arve Enriksen... or The Silencers... Evan Parker... or with the author Olivier Cadiot,
the singer Katerine. An enthusiast of prepared piano and electronic instruments,
he is continually renewing his experimentations, which are a mixture of
composition and improvisation, while at the same time performing as a
much-in-demand sideman (Marc Ducret, etc.)
His playing displays a rich palette of sounds with multiple layers of
colours, fleeting phrasing and harmonies. An enthusiast of poly-speeds,
as early as 1989, he began researching into the keyboard's poly-rhythmic
potential. He plays short rhythmic patterns intertwined with and animated
by multiple simultaneous speeds, which evoke African traditional music
(balafons, sanza...) as well as Asian (gamelans, gongs...). With his electronic
instruments, he likes sounds composed by programming or samples recycling
as well as entrancing bass lines played on Bass Station.
More info on Benoît
Delbecq's website
Hubert DUPONT > double bass, composition
Hubert Dupont explores the secret and tortuous paths of creative music - improvised or premeditated - with passion...
Hubert Dupont is the double bass player of
KARTET (since 1990 with Benoît Delbecq, Guillaume Orti, Chander
Sardjoe), and the electric bass player of THÔT, Stéphane
Payen's band ; in 1993 he co-founded Collectif HASK; he led the bands ALTISSIMO
(1994-99) and DECOR (1997-2000).
His double-bass solo CD Ultraboles (UBR 0501) was named "Revelation 2005" in Guitarist-bass, and followed by many performances.
He now leads Dupont T, inviting Rudreh Mahanthappa, with Yvan Robilliard and Chander Sardjoe : the CD Spider's Dance (2007, UBR 0502, dist. Nocturne) is followed by tours in France and in the US.
He also performs with Sawadu, a trio with Hervé Samb (Guitar, Senegal) and Brice Wassy (drums, Cameroon).
His musical experience is strongly oriented
towards musical research as well as receptivity to new forms : from formal
constraints to total improvisation ; from pure acoustic to pure electronic (CRONO-CROMO, with Stéfanus
Vivens ; Nigma-e with Eric Groleau) ...
Since 2000 he has been performing or recording
with HATI, Nicolas GENEST's band ; with the Cameroonian master drummer Brice
WASSY's Kù Jazz Groove ; Pierre Vaiana's Al Funduq ; Marjolaine Reymond ; the lebanon pianist Elie Maalouf, the
percussionist Youssef Hbeisch …
Born in 1959, he settles down in Paris in 1989, and becomes a very in-demand
sideman : with Robin Eubanks, Steve Lacy, Harold Land, Glenn Ferris, Stefano
Di Battista, Fabrizio Cassol, Daunik Lazro, Malik Mezzadri, Mathias Rüegg,
Paolo Fresu, Wolfgang Puschnig, Gabor Gado, the Big Band Quoi De Neuf
Docteur (directed by Serge Adam), La Marmite Infernale, ARFI, Louis Winsberg,
Laurent De Wilde, …
Read the full
Portrait of Hubert Dupont
Chander SARDJOE (NL) > drums
Born in 1970, he is of Indian origin (Surinam),
and now lives in Amsterdam. Since 1994 he makes stays at Bangalore and
Madras to study with masters of tala (of which U. Sivaraman, au mridangam)
; in 1995-96 he is the drummer of the bands of Steve Coleman Five Elements,
Metrics, Secret Doctrine ; in early 1996, he joinded Kartet (Guillaume
Orti, Benoît Delbecq, Hubert Dupont). He would perform and record
with Aka Moon, Kris Defoort, Mark Turner, James Genus, Lee Konitz, Dave Liebman, Aydin Esen, Antonio Farao …
This master of poly-rhythm plays with :
- Kartet (fifth CD , THE BAY WINDOW, 2007, Songlines)
- Octurn, Bo Van Der Werf 's band
- Tribu, Geoffroy De Masure's band
- Osmosis, Mark Hanstra's,
- MSG, with
Rudresh Mahanthappa and Ronan Guilfoyle
- Dupont T, of Hubert Dupont with Rudresh Mahanthappa and Yvan Robilliard (CD Spider's Dance, 2007, UBR 0502 / Nocturne)
- Mario Canonge & Linley Marthe
- Aly Keita, Trio Ivoire
- Fabian Fiorini Trio,....
More info on Chander
Sardjoe's website
Contact :
To Book Kartet , please contact Ultrabolic
or Charles Gil :
Vapaat äänet - Charles Gil
Fleminginkatu 10 B 24
00530 Helsinki, Finland
office phone: +358 9 773 1916
mobile phone: +358 50 5716 516
charles.gil[arobase]kolumbus.fi
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