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Violaine Gestadler is a French sax player, improviser and educator. She began her collaboration with fellow French double bass player Louis-Michel Marion in the free improvising trio Noi trei, with audio-visual artist Stefania Becheanu, who released the album 3 Vues D’un Paysage = 3 Views Of A Landscape (Creative Sources, 2018). Marges is her second album with Marion, recorded at studio CCAM – Scène Nationale de Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy in March 2020.
There is a quite of French writer Pascal Quignard from his poetic book L’Origine de la danse (2013). And, indeed, the five improvisations suggest some kind of free-form and spontaneous dances (and Marion took part in many choreographic productions) where Gestadler and Marion develop minimalist and loose sonic architectures and keep deconstructing and reconstructing them. They do so by employing patiently and methodically their extended breathing, bowing and vocal techniques until their instruments transform into abstract and otherworldly sound generators. Their conversational, quiet and thoughtful interplay often juggles with suggestive overtones, noisy breaths and ritualist pulses, and manages to keep the creative tension throughout the five, reserved improvisations. Eyal Hareuveni (Salt Peanuts)