Sascha Ley - It's Alright To Be Everywhere (2019)

The Luxembourgian vocalist and performer Sascha Ley has a renowned reputation way beyond her home country for her original and undogmatic projects. As actress, multilingual singer, improviser and poet she nimbly strides on her musical paths including jazz, free improvisation, imaginary folklore and contemporary music far from conventionality. The duo project Ley/Payfert gains its profit from these qualities. On "It’s Alright To Be Everywhere" Sascha Ley and her French colleague, double bass player Laurent Payfert, present a mix extraordinarily rich of variations from jazz standards to original compositions; sounds that evolve from instantaneous improvisations ("instant compositions") and over laid patterns of modern jazz: Fantastic and suggestive soundscapes, experiments, the use of special singing and instrumental techniques as well as the art of storytelling evoke a surprising and vivacious experience beyond mainstream. As a matter of fact silence precedes all pieces of this album. Often enough it only becomes clear during the course of a piece if there will be a duo or a solo. What is moreover interesting is that some of the album's songs feature renowned guitar player and songwriter Jean Pascal Boffo, in whose AMPER Studio (in the French municipality of Clouange) the album has been recorded, which again leads to two levels of musical communication: on the one hand there is the interaction of the duo with its sound designer, on the other hand the increased intensity in the play of "Ley-Payfert plus one".