Parasite Jazz - Parasite Jazz (Disques de la Spirale/Groovedge)

What Your Ears Say & The Cover Looks LIke

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What We Say

The UK gets a lot of attention for mutating the jazz continuum in interesting new directions but I'm currently transfixed by France's gilet jaune wearing Parasite Jazz whose self titled debut LP for Disques de la Spirale / Groovedge has just dropped and is a hard hitting, freewheeling, deviantly dubbed, post punk, krautrock, jazz not jazz fusion that simmers with discontent & righteous anger. The revolution will most definitely be televised and this gets my vote for the soundtrack.

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What The Release Notes Say

Watch "Carton Jazz", video drawn by Elliot Dadat : www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXX6_98C2NY

French non-jazz trio overflowed by Simple Music Experience’s funders Tamara Goukassova, Théo Delaunay & Alexandre Larcier, offering a 40mn of non-simple music madness, and navigating between a dozen of etiquettes from undecided space rock to motorik-infused-dub, medieval folk, cartoon trance; everything under the seal of psychedelia and half-improvisation.
Built from drums, violin, springs, samples, reiterations, overdubs, trumpets, synths, distortions; and the appearances of L. Cedrón (Fiesta en el Vacío), L. Retraite (Ventre de Biche), K. Knapp (Deliluh), F. Mazzocchetti (Maoupa Mazzocchetti).

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Chimera embraced by three members of the Simple Music Experience label, also (co-) liable at one point for the acts of Axel Larsen, (The) Simplists, Violent Quand On Aime, Constance Chlore, T. Goukassova, Radiante Pourpre, Succhiamo or Panoptique; Parasite Jazz emerged in 2016 in the smoke of a suspicious performance on Simple Music TV. An improvised and protean artifact at birth, the project settled down at the end of 2020 as a trio (Axel Larsen, Constance Chlore, Tamara Goukassova) in Marseille, then as a sextet during the Illusio festival in the summer of 2021. A series of concerts with a shifting line-up followed - Kyle Knapp, Luca Retraite and Luna Cedrón sometimes appeared and with them, spontaneous incandescences. This first series of collective hallucinations took the form of an album during a perilous recording at Grrrnd Zero (Lyon) in October 2021, and is completed by live recordings gleaned over the course of the summer episodes.

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Chimère adoptée par 3 trois membres du label Simple Music Experience, aussi (co-)responsables à un point ou à un autre des actes d'Axel Larsen, (The) Simplists, Violent Quand On Aime, Constance Chlore, T. Goukassova, Radiante Pourpre, Succhiamo ou Panoptique ; Parasite Jazz advient en 2016 dans la fumée d'une performance douteuse sur Simple Music TV. Artefact improvisé et protéiforme à la naissance, le projet se stabilise fin 2020 en trio (Axel Larsen, Constance Chlore, Tamara Goukassova) à Marseille puis en sextet lors du festival Illusio à l'été 2021. S'ensuivent une série de concerts au line up mouvant - Kyle Knapp, Luca Retraite et Luna Cedrón apparaissent parfois et avec eux, des incandescences spontanées. Cette première série d'hallucinations collectives prend la forme d'un album lors d'un enregistrement périlleux à Grrrnd Zero (Lyon) en octobre 2021, et se voit complétée par des prises live glanées au fil des épisodes estivaux.

CREDITS
All tracks are composed and performed by Parasite Jazz:
Alexandre Larcier: bands, FX, springs
Tamara Goukassova: violin
Théo Delaunay: drums, percussion, synthesizer, tapes

Florent Mazzocchetti: trumpet on "Carton Jazz" and "Alarm Twist" (sampled)
Luca Retraite: bass on “Terciopelo” and guitar on “Alarm Twist”
Luna Cedron: vocals on “Terciopelo”
Kyle Knapp: lap steel on “Terciopelo” and “Untitled live at Gigors”

Recorded and mixed by Théo Delaunay at Grrrnd Zero (Lyon) and l'Embobineuse (Marseille) except "Terciopelo" recorded at Illusio (Pradelles) and "Untitled live at Gigors" at La Sye Electric (Gigors-et-Lozeron).

Mastering: Rupert Clerveaux
Cover art: Diane Malatesta
Layout: Alan Briand
Sketches, band lettering: Around Function

Parasite Jazz thanks: Quentin Mosko, the Groovedge/Illusio crew, Théo & Clyde, Maoupa Mazzocchetti, the 3 jokers Luna Luca and Kyle, Grrrnd & the Embobineuse.

Distribution: Bigwax Distribution
Manufactured by Squeezer

Co-release with Groovedge Records

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