Cycles - CYMES (2023)

Cymes is the first album of the french duo Cycles. It gathers almost 3years of work, taking inspiration from a vast variety of music, from Norwegian folk tunes to Monk's music. All tunes are arranged by Clément Merienne & Sol Léna--Schroll

"Throughout this opus, Clément Merienne and Sol Léna--Schroll deploy a discourse of rare concentration, through the interplay of polyrhythmic cycles in the midst of which interrogative or wild lines dance. The particularity of their approach is that, in almost the entire disc, the saxophone and the piano play a disturbing unison: if we feel the shadow of John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes, it is indeed a piano prepared by twenty fingers and two lungs that we are talking about here And if we ask ourselves where the strange logic of their music comes from, which resembles that of dreams, made up of halts, breaks, daring shortcuts, it is on the side of the music of Monk: keystone of the album, the Ask Me Now theme is filtered through the inimitable weaving of the duo"