Julien Favreuille - Till mina vänner (2019)

The three musicians know each other and play together in various formations since the beginning of the 90s. Stefan Orins composes for this trio a melodic, aerial music, inspired by the large Scandinavian spaces of its origins, Sweden. The three friends build a bewitching soundscape thanks to the mix of their sensitive timbres and their complicit ideas, a story ...

"Till Minna Vänner" means "to my friends" in Swedish, the testimony of a friendship between three musicians who play together in various formations, since the beginning of the 90s.

The album opens and closes on the brass duet in unison, Julien Favreuille and his powerful breath on the tenor saxophone, and the poetic velvet of Christophe Motury's bugle. The pianist Stefan Orins offers for this trio a new angle of view on his most melodic compositions. The three musicians were recorded "live" at home, some close to each other in the same room, enjoying a brilliant sound of Benoit Ganoote.
 
"Bodisattva", which opens the album, the Buddhist term of a state of altruistic life, reveals the attitude of the three musicians throughout the album, helping one another to place the music and its beauty at the same time. center of their attention. "Upplösning" (resolution), proposes a totally improvised dialogue between the 3 soloists on a background of up tempo. The calm and serenity of "Lugn" (tranquility) evoke the great spaces of the Swedish origins of the pianist. "Petals with the Wind", title of a collection of poems of Daisaku Ikeda, offers a ballad valorizing Julien Favreuille. "Tabea fyller sju", introduced by the pianist offers a melody evolving over complex harmonies and asymmetrical measures. "Brussels Charleroi" is the sonorous testimony of many trips back to Poland, which the composer was called upon to do regularly to perform. Finally, "För", a word game that means "for" or "intended for", is a piece dedicated to Christophe 'Pher "Motury, composed as a hymn in tribute to the human and musical qualities of the musician.