Stéphan Oliva, Sébastien Boisseau - Hubble Dreams (2024) [Hi-Res]

Hubble Dreams is an innovative exploration of free improvisation, blending raw spontaneity with meticulous post-production. At the suggestion of their producers, Stéphan Oliva and Sébastien Boisseau entered La Buissonne Studios without a set theme, dedicating three days to pure improvisation under sound engineer Gérard de Haro. Over five sessions, they created a mix of fully improvised pieces, later incorporating familiar themes like Tony Williams’s There Comes a Time and Neil Young’s Dead Man. Boisseau led an extensive editing process, curating moments from the improvisations to build a structured, “spatialized” musical experience that challenges the linear nature of improvised music.

Stéphan Oliva : piano
Sébastien Boisseau : upright bass

Tracklist:
1 Contact
2 In Hubble Dreams
3 There Comes a Time
4 Myopie stellaire
5 Planète Aksak
6 Sometime I Feel Like a White Dwarf
7 Sidereal Time
8 Law years / Light years
9 Where Flamingos Fly
10 Nébuleuse du petit fantôme
11 Dancing for the Quarks
12 Earendel
13 Miroir temps
14 Nonequilibrium
15 Dead Man / Dispersion