Plastic Bamboo Asynchrone

• 1Plastic Bamboo03:41
• 2Expecting Rivers04:28
• 3Neue Tanz04:22
• 4Thatness and Thereness03:29
• 5Differencia02:56
• 6Behind the Mask04:08
• 7Boku No Kakera03:19
• 8Once in a Lifetime06:23
• 9Ubi05:57
• 10Riot in Lagos05:36
• 11Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence06:42
• Total Runtime51:01

Info for Plastic Bamboo

French Jazz sextet Asynchrone reimagine legendary composer Ryuichi Sakamoto"s repertoire As fans of the maestro"s work, French free jazz/electro collective Asynchrone began to interrogate his oeuvre in 2020, aiming to get inside his music, taking it to unexplored new dimensions. On their debut album "Plastic Bamboo", they achieve that and more. With a wildly eclectic approach in mind, there will be songs that most will be familiar with: "Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence" and Yellow Magic Orchestra"s "Behind The Mask", in particular. And then there are the deeper cuts from Sakamoto"s solo albums from the early eighties that are less famous but that nevertheless helped to expand and augment the genre. With a wildly eclectic approach in mins, they take a varied selection of his music in a direction where free jazz meets electronics, with the sense of liberty and freedom. Asynchrone"s personnel is a link-up between founders cellist Clément Petit, producer and musician Frédéric Soulard (behind Jeanne Added"s Victoires De La Musique-winning album), alongside clarinet/saxophone player Hugues Mayot, flautist Delphine Joussein, pianist Manuel Peskine, and Vincent Taeger (Oumou Sangaré, Tony Allen) on drums. Plastic Bamboo teems with vivacity and possibility, and it"s a record that is future-facing rather than any kind of sombre eulogy. It seeks to continue the musical conversation now that the architect is no longer with us. Asynchrone plays Sakamoto.

Asynchrone:
Clément Petit, cello
Frédéric Soulard, synthesizer
Hugues Mayot, saxophones, bass clarinet
Delphine Joussein, flutes
Manuel Peskine, piano
Vincent Taeger, drums

Asynchrone
is a collective born in 2021, which assembles musicians from the Parisian free jazz and electro scenes, to honour the music of late Japanese legend, Ryuichi Sakamoto. Making their debut with the release of the ‘Kling Klang’ EP in summer 2022, Asynchrone today releases a new single, a few months after Sakamoto’s passing. ‘Plastic Bamboo’ is also the title track of Asynchrone's forthcoming debut album, due for release on September 29, 2023 via the Nø Førmat! label (Ballaké Sissoko, Oumou Sangaré). You can stream the new track - a reimagining of the piece which originally appeared on Sakamoto’s 1978 solo debut LP ‘Thousand Knives’ - from here.

Asynchrone’s personnel is a link-up between cellist Clément Petit (Aloe Blacc), producer and musician Frédéric Soulard (who produced Jeanne Added’s Victoire De La Musique-winning album), clarinet/saxophone player Hugues Mayot, flautist Delphine Joussein, pianist Manuel Peskine, and Vincent Taeger (A.L.B.E.R.T.) on drums. Influenced by Sakamoto’s freedom, his mysticism, and his ability to draw inspiration from Debussy as much as from Kraftwerk, Asynchrone revisits his Homeric back catalogue with a breath of rebellious freedom and a communicative pleasure of playing. More than a tribute to a frozen work, it is a tribute to creative freedom.

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