Mathieu Soucy - Recollecting (2022) [Hi-Res]

Mathieu Soucy (he/him/il) is “an exciting young guitarist” (Laila Biali, Saturday Night Jazz) and composer living in Montréal. His first LP “Recollecting” (Inner-Bop Records, self-released) features brilliant voices of the new generation of Canadian jazz and is set for release in the Fall of 2022. JUNO-winning Caity Gyorgy makes a guest appearance on two tracks as a vocalist and lyricist. The album is a recollective act, i.e. it speaks the same language as the bop pioneers, but it does so with an accent; that of a 27-year old Canadian artist whose inmost voice has called for a spiritful recollection of its roots. The album celebrates the ever-futural propension of the bop language to reinvent itself through colourful variations. Mathieu’s discography include UNSTABLUES GROUNDS and TRINKLE TINKLE (independent), two singles as a leader of a jazz trio, and Jeu d’ombres (Florafone Records), a short poetico-musical incursion into the magical space out of which half-improvised music and poetry emerge. It features Montreal-based mythic vocal storyteller Sarah Rossy and bears the poetical imprint of Paul Éluard and Charles Baudelaire to whom Mathieu lends his soundboard, so as to let their conjoined light shine forth in an undistorted yet very personal manner.

Caity Gyorgy - voice (and lyrics on track 5) Gentiane MG - piano Mike de Masi - bass Jacob Wutzke - drums

Tracklist:
1 01. Mathieu Soucy - Lennie's Changes (03:53)
1 02. Mathieu Soucy - Where or When (04:54)
1 03. Mathieu Soucy - Turner Days (06:24)
1 04. Mathieu Soucy - Blues for Barry (05:32)
1 05. Mathieu Soucy - Thinker and a Fool (06:00)
1 06. Mathieu Soucy - Mike's Mudra (04:36)
1 07. Mathieu Soucy - 5th Avenue (05:37)
1 08. Mathieu Soucy - Reflections (02:45)
1 09. Mathieu Soucy - Recollecting (05:33)