Deus Ex Machina Initiative H

• 1Deus Ex Machina03:12
• 2Infraction06:43
• 3Desillusion09:13
• 4Eastside07:12
• 5E.T04:48
• 6M.I.T06:28
• 7Murder Drome06:31
• 8In Benzin Veritas03:57
• 9The Way of the Sun02:48
• 10Manhattan Out04:23
• Total Runtime55:15

Info for Deus Ex Machina

The Toulouse based big band Initiative H creates a fantastic sound universe with its album DEUS EX MACHINA, which immediately starts a movie in ones head. Bandleader and composer David Haudrechy excellently knows to combine dark end time scenarios with gleams of hope of a sunny day.

The theme song Deux Ex Machina already uncovers the entity of the musical material in a kind of a third millennium’s opera overture. Like a concert made of tableaux, each piece is leading the audience into a universe of meaningful pictures to live the experience of a music arisen from thrill, intensity and a slight shiver. We are travelling an imaginary America, that of the photographer Raymond Depardon, a disenchanted city, forming at all costs the neuralgic centre of an indisputable urban culture: E.T, Manhattan Out... But we also go to the West Coast, where fun is all about and where surf culture originates from – inspired by the pictures of LeRoy Grannis, by the risk taken and the extreme thrill: Desillusion, The Way Of The Sun, Murder Drome, Infraction... And there is “In Benzin Veritas” – the thought as the fuel of the Deus Ex Machina, the turnaround in the very last moment, open for amenable to other perspectives, like the taste of new ways to be explored…

Founded in 2012 by David Haudrechy Initiative H took the ambitious challenge to create a dense, modern and passionate music transcending the genres jazz, rock, electro and 20th century music. The powerful sound of this 21st century orchestra is fed by the energy of a big collective project where each musician has its certain place. The interpretation is masterly, the engagement absolute and the listener will be completely absorbed by the telling power of this music.

A complete new stage experience. At the festival Jazz à la Défense Initiative H advanced to the finals of the 2013 national competition. A musical adventure, human, urban, which makes Initiative H an unavoidable entity of the renovation of the French jazz scene.

Considering his passion for surfing, snowboarding and skating, the genre crossover in saxophonist David Haudrechy’s music is more than understandable. The thrill, the shiver, the risk, all sensations are also part of the fantastic appearance of Deus Ex Machina. David Haudrechy developed his own, liberate, musical language as much inspired by Berlioz and Moussorgski as by Gill Evans, Carla Bley, but also King Crimson and Arvo Pärt. Unexpected and paradox like in a slalom is the musical process between the different projects surrounding the band. Currently David Haudrechy is working on a new, explosive project with Thomas de Pourquery, Vincent Artaud and Médéric Collignon.

'An evocative roller coaster of cerebral joy and visceral overload while never pushing the listener off the edge of the mythical melodic cliff. (...) An incredibly ambitious release that could easily morphed into a sonic train wreck instead carries along a divergent sound in its melodic wake (...) A stellar offering worthy of global attention.' (Brent Black, Criticaljazz.com)

David Haudrechy, saxophones, direction
Ferdinand Doumerc, saxophones, flute
Gaël Pautric, saxophones, bass clarinet
Nicolas Gardel, trumpet
Nicolas Algans, trumpet
Olivier 'Lapin' Sabatier, trombone
Lionel Segui, bass trombone
Florent Hortal, guitar
Amaury Faye, keys, piano
Julien Duthu, bass, double bass
Pierre Pollet, drums
Florent 'Pepino' Tisseyre, percussions

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Booklet for Deus Ex Machina