David Aubaile Trio - Dat - Thinko

The compositions seem to be inhabited by instinctive energy", Louis-Julien Nicolaou - TELERAMA Sortir "The compositions seem to be inhabited by instinctive energy", Louis-Julien Nicolaou - JAZZMAG

"The compositions seem to be inhabited by an instinctive energy", Louis-Julien Nicolaou - TELERAMA Sortir

"A wise intermingling, both Mediterranean and European. David Aubaile transforms the background thanks to the languages he has encountered on his way " " What emotions, a feeling record ", Mylène Mauricrace - JAZZ NEWS - RADIOCAMPUS

After participating in countless projects around the world with great artists and musicians, he understands that Belleville, Bamako, Yerevan, Algiers, Tôkyô, Buenos Aires, Istanbul or Belgrade have created a confluence in his head and his flesh, and decides that his music will become his own crossbreeding, his digestion of the journey. Today he intends to move and go beyond musical traditions to create his own melody. Never mind the definitions, the who's-who's, the straight lines and the direct inheritances.

The result is harmonically simple pieces, music that is both European and Mediterranean, often based on odd, or lame, rhythms. Rhythms in 5, 7, 11 beats, far from an alienating binary manicheism: prime numbers, like life: apparently simple and so full of meanders, where balance is not always in the conformity we think. The form is jazz: the sound of a piano, double bass and drums; no tricks, no synthesizers, a simple and readable vibratory base... One of the most timeless forms to not overpower the content. And who else than Karim Ziad, world-renowned master of the drums, and Chris Jennings, all-round bassist, to support this project?

In a troubled and hesitant world, this music, both sober and complex, naturally takes on a political meaning, as an opening and a space where rhythms live and breathe in the same way as people cohabit and co-living. At a time when people are trying to wall off life, it claims the right to simply make spatial entities live together. Music is space, and whatever the metrics, it is just the space of unity that counts. Everything is one.