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"L'Instant D'Après" (2008), CDR and netrelease
with Dragos Tara (doublebass) & Piero SK (sax)
recorded at l'Oblò, Lausanne, 12.03.08 and at le Shark, Geneva, 03.04.08

available on INSUBORDINATIONS netlabel and MOREMARS cdr-label.
you can get directly the full album in a .zip here

Une basse torturée, grinçante, une batterie centrée sur les peaux et mixée très en avant, un déferlement de bruits électroniques déversent une lave sur laquelle un sax soprano vient parfois poser ses déchirures. Improvisation totale. La radicalité du propos musical – bruits, collision presque manichéenne de graves et d’aigus, quasi-absence d’apports mélodiques - est corroborée par une pochette plus que sombre et un choix de titres aux sourcils froncés : « Montée aux enfers », « Entorse aux oublis », « La démocratie reste un système bourgeois » (probablement le morceau le plus marquant, avec un saxophone écorché à la Braxton), ou plus décalés : « Le givre », « Les gosses », qui laisse perplexe.
Citizen Jazz

[..]It documents a fruitful collaboration of Diatribes, a promising outfit from Geneva, that has been reviewed earlier for Vital Weekly. [...]The cdr contains seven improvisations recorded in Geneva and Lausanne in 2008. The drumwork by Bondi is the dominating force in most of these improvisations. In the opening track "Entorse aus textures" his drumming is like a constant ever changing stream, putting different accents all the time. The bass by Tara moves in many different corners and edges. A very engaging improvisation, with laptop input by D'Incise that is not to be underestimated. The second track "Le givre" is a more open and closer to silence, with long notes played by the saxplayer. All improvisations are full of tension and delicate. There is nicely intertwined communication playing by drums, sounds and bass and sax. High quality improvisations.
Dolf Mulder/Vital Weekly

This Swiss outfit fuse laptop noise and found objects with free jazz percussion. Sounding somewhere between Jooklo and Usurper, they muster a noisescape of rambling extremities. On this CD-R double bassist, Dragos Tara and the incredible saxophonist, Piero SK, join them. The album was recorded in spring this year and captures a fresh landscape of discord and insanity. Throughout proceedings, the rambling is often pivoted with a stronghold forged by SK's devastatingly corrupt and direct soprano sax. The improvised element gives an intimate and live feel, to the home-listening experience. The electricity thrust upon the eardrum tingles the dormant into motion.
‘La démocratie reste un système bourgeois' is the most profound piece on this record. Showcasing the musicians through unity and full-frontal solos; this is 13minutes of improvised jazz at its best. Creaking soprano sax and electronics collide over a rolling tide of percussion. After 5minutes all artists excel into a ferocious battle finally giving way to a laptop and drum tempest. To mark a departure into reflective fields, SK is given the stand in an inspired solo that trudges with the pace of the heavy breathed session of Anthony Braxton on his contra bass sax. A deep, pained melody is strutted over an ever-pounding 4/4 drum pattern. The stop start of SK's paying accompanied with touches of eastern European gypsy and Moorish patterns, which allude to visions of seedy bathhouses in Budapest. This is music that is as visual as it is aurally stimulating. Finally, as the other players enter the cacophony, a rich canvas of twisting sounds fornicate in hell - a hell from the mind of Bosch.
The session veers through an hour of movements steeped in freedom and experiment. The central highlight piece elevates the album to something extremely memorable. Other memorable moments allow Tara truly shine, as on ‘Montèe aux enfres': a nightmare of epileptic ferocity. Things ramble to a close with a psyched out jamming, more akin to LSD March or Bardo Pond, than the previous raucous experiments that echoed Zappa at his most maniacal. Today, within Europe, free jazz and psych seems to be breaking free from the vacuous whirlpool of freefolk that has steadily built across the Atlantic. After a year of some significant releases in this revised genre, France, Scotland (inc. North England), Switzerland and Portugal are the places to watch right now.
(Peter Taylor/Foxydigitalis)

Premiers sons et déjà l’impression d’être dans un film glauque où l’intrigue se déroulerait dans une cave ou dans un lieu clôt. [...] Le résultat de cette collaboration sont sept morceaux hypnotisants, parfois assommants voire grinçants, dans un univers sombre avec des sons nuancés.
Carole-lyne Klay/Murmures

"Explosive free jazz sessions from this new swiss collective. They go deep with some electronic craziness, poly-rythmic ecstacy, amorphous junk and Leroy Jenkins too!"
(dreamsheep)

"Swiss improvising duo Diatribes joined forces with Dragos Tara and Piero SK to record L’Instant D’Après (INSUBORDINATIONS INSUBCDR03), a percussion-heavy set of recordings made in Lausanne and Geneva earlier this year. The bass player contributes some memorable groanages on ‘Le Mauvaise Oeil’, and the sax player adds his bitter wailings to the fourth track, which is an extended lament about the failings of democracy. There’s a laptop player somewhere in these murky effusions, but it’s the drummer Cyril Bondi who seems to dominate most of the airspace with his thudding bass drum."
(Ed Pinsent/the sound projector)