Playing tenor sax and clarinet, Matthieu Donarier creates a mix of pastoral ambience and elliptical moods with the prepared piano and non-prepared piano of Eve Risser, Karsten Hochapfel/s cello and Toma Gouband playing drums, stones and plants (!). Whatever happened to piano/bass/drums?
Donarier’s clarinet is blue with Hochapfel on “Exploration #01” and classically toned on the modern moded “Bon Voyage” His tenor is atmospheric for “Field At Dusk” and the team is pastoral during Drafted”. There’s plenty of loose percussion on “Exploration #02” and the pian scratches out “Arcs”. Rough drafts with a #4 pencil.