A Very Big Lunch Papanosh

• 1Faux Soleil06:42
• 2Westward Ho04:51
• 3Nord Michigan04:57
• 4Grand Maître05:37
• 5Wolf07:44
• 6Chien Brun05:01
• 7Un Bon Jour Pour Mourir04:31
• 8Dalva07:52
• Total Runtime47:15

Info for A Very Big Lunch

Papanosh is a young quintet that devours all kinds of styles and forms: jazz, folk, improv and experimental. Their new album A Very Big Lunch is inspired by Jim Harrison (1937-2016), the American writer best known for his novella Legends of the Fall, which has been adapted to film. Harrison’s vivacious stories, landscape and characters have inspired Papanosh to create new soundtracks, that are accompanied on stage by the drawings, paintings and projections of visual artist Lison de Ridder.

The five members of Papanosh are part of the Rouen-based multimedia art collective Les Vibrants Défricheurs (‘the vibrant pioneers’). In the jazz world, each of them independently has collaborated with an enormous list of more and lesser known artists, including Marc Ribot, Mike Reed, Théo Ceccaldi, and Archie Shepp’s Attica Blues Orchestra. In Papanosh, all five members contribute original compositions, and each of them can take on the role of band leader.

Sébastien Palis, piano, balafon, wurlitzer
Quentin Ghomari, trumpet, flugelhorn
Raphaël Quenehen, alto and baritone saxophones
Thibault Cellier, double bass
Jérémie Piazza, drums

Papanosh
The quintet from Rouen in Normandy stands for an imagined French folklore that seamlessly transitions into jazz. Boundless love of experimentation and joy in the comical to the absurd; sometimes melancholy like a funeral combo from New Orleans, sometimes lively like a circus band. In their dazzling "Prévert Parade" they accompany the "troubadour vocalchimiste" André Minvielle, a percussionist and singer from Gascony who early on took a cue from Al Jarreau. Brilliant entertainment that works well even without knowledge of French.

This album contains no booklet.