Sylvaine Hélary, l'Orchestre Incandescent - Rare Birds (2024) [Hi-Res]

Sylvaine Hélary is a rare bird, having played with the “Surnatural Orchestra”, the French singer Dominique A, Steve Coleman, the French Orchestre National de Jazz (which she will take over as director in 2025) and her fellow musician Sarah Murcia, with whom she co-leads the quintet La tête de Lark.

After several albums with small groups, Sylvaine Hélary is back with her brand-new Orchestre Incandescent, bringing together nine artists working on the frontiers of jazz, pop, baroque and electronic music. The result is a singular orchestral sound that fuses delicacy and power, timbre and bewitching rhythms.

RARE BIRDS unfurls a subtle range of poetics, a palette of sensitive expression with many surprises. Synthetic meets organic, instrumentation travels through the centuries and viola da gamba meets synthesizer, music and lyrics flow from the same clear, fresh source.

Sylvaine Hélary's musical setting of Emily Dickinson words, the intense atmosphere of The Abandoned Village a poem by P.J. Harvey, from whom she has already covered verses on a previous album, and the rich, plural universe presented by the flutist and composer, are all evidence of charisma and sisterhood.

Tracklist:
1-1. Sylvaine Hélary, l'Orchestre Incandescent - There is a solitude of space (08:14)
1-2. Sylvaine Hélary, l'Orchestre Incandescent - We do not play on Graves (10:32)
1-3. Sylvaine Hélary, l'Orchestre Incandescent - The Road was lit with Moon and star (10:34)
1-4. Sylvaine Hélary, l'Orchestre Incandescent - Ténèbres (03:00)
1-5. Sylvaine Hélary, l'Orchestre Incandescent - The largest Fire ever known (09:16)
1-6. Sylvaine Hélary, l'Orchestre Incandescent - To make a prairie (05:55)
1-7. Sylvaine Hélary, l'Orchestre Incandescent - The Abandoned Village (10:15)
1-8. Sylvaine Hélary, l'Orchestre Incandescent - There is no Silence in the Earth (08:17)