Ran Blake - Chabrol noir (2016) [Hi-Res]

Impulse! Records follows Ran Blake’s critically acclaimed 2014 disc, Cocktails at Dusk: A Noir Tribute to Chris Connor with Chabrol Noir, another cinematic-themed outing, which illustrates his long-standing fascination with the film noir subgenre. As the of the new disc suggests, the late Claude Henri Jean Chabrol, the iconic French film director who was a notable member of the French New Wave movement of the late 1950s and 1960s.

With more than 30 discs under his belt, the always-curious Blake continues delivering probing music that evokes a fragile beauty and hair-raising suspense, often captured in film. His Chabrol Noir is a welcome addition to his inscrutable body of work as well as fine second chapter in his late-career relationship with Allard and Impulse! Records.

Ran Blake, piano
Ricky Ford, tenor saxophone (on tracks 4, 9, 11, 12, 14, 16)
Dominique Eade, vocals (on track 15)

Recorded July 13, 14 & 15, 2012 at ICP Recording Studios, Belgium
Recorded and mixed by Jay Newland
Mastered at Battery Studios, New York
Produced by Jean-Philippe Allard

Tracklist:
01. Ran Blake - Cemetery (2:12)
02. Ran Blake - Midnight Snow (2:10)
03. Ran Blake - The Secret Of Madame Louise (2:03)
04. Ran Blake - Vier Ernste Gesange (Fatality) (1:40)
05. Ran Blake - Bells Of Doom (4:43)
06. Ran Blake - Wedding Singer (1:36)
07. Ran Blake - Helene's Walk Home (1:35)
08. Ran Blake - Cause For Alarm (Fieldtrip) (2:04)
09. Ran Blake - Garvey's Ghost (1:49)
10. Ran Blake - The Nights Of Tremolat (6:00)
11. Ran Blake - Love Lament (6:52)
12. Ran Blake - Emergency Code (1:46)
13. Ran Blake - Balloon Ecstasy (2:04)
14. Ran Blake - Les grognards (2:33)
15. Ran Blake - I'm Going To See My Son (2:58)
16. Ran Blake - Nada (1:52)
17. Ran Blake - Watch What Happens (From "The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg”) (4:29)