Hélène Duret Synestet

Synestet: the name evokes synesthesia, this phenomenon by which several senses mingle and respond to each other. The training of clarinetist Hélène Duret thus solicits the sensory imagination: the music becomes a play of colors, smells, shapes and textures. A rock guitar, explosive and polymorphous, dialogues with a mobile drum set, alternately in the foreground or in the background, while saxophone, clarinet, double bass and the trombone of his guest Nils Wogram merge into a collective voice with immediately significant melodies. Between the legacies of Ornette Coleman, Jimmy Giuffre and Duke Ellington, and more contemporary influences such as Jakob Bro or Timber Timbre, this European sextet deploys a sound exploration that celebrates the virtues of simplicity as much as inventiveness.