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01. Designers - Lebanon
02. Designers - Moulindjek
03. Designers - Procession
04. Designers - Folk Song
05. Designers - Engrenages
06. Designers - Point Ligne Sur Plan
07. Designers - Tintinabulisme
08. Designers - White Keys
ARTIST
TITLE
Designers
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
WJCD 047CD WJCD 047CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
10/27/2023

2022 release. Designers are Joachim Florent on double bass, Will Guthrie on drums, Aki Rissanen on piano. This is their debut album together. Their music, composed by Joachim Florent, is inspired by geometry and architecture. The music flows as minimalist, postmodern piano trio jazz of the highest caliber, as evidenced by the lead single "Moulindjek". Florent (from Belgium) and Guthrie (from Australia) are based in Nantes, France, and Rissanen (from Finland) also has strong ties to the city. Joachim Florent says: "As a kid I started playing music with the piano and I keep playing it every day, even if pretty poorly, and use it to compose and discover new music. In 2019 I started to write some piano studies that appeared to be pretty geometrical in a way, so I had this idea I could bring some music for the trio that would be inspired by geometry and architecture. In the meantime, I knew that we would improvise as much as possible as Aki and Will are among the most brilliant improvisers I've ever met! So, the challenge for me was to write as little as possible but to make the material strong enough to suggest a particular geometric feeling for each tune. I discovered Filip Dujardin's work some ten years ago and I was struck by the power of these impossible architectures looking so familiar and totally surrealist in the meantime. I guess that's how I would love Designers to sound: both familiar and surrealist."