ERIK TRUFFAZ QUARTET

The Erik Truffaz Quartet is first and foremost a collective entity with its own sound and group dynamic. In 1997, the band, then featuring Marcello Giuliani on bass, Marc Erbetta, drums, and Patrick Muller, keyboards, released its debut “Out of a dream” on Blue Note. On the follow-ups, “The dawn” and “Bending new corner”, rapper Nya added a poetic, urban touch; the clip “Yuri’s choice” went a long way to developing the music’s popularity. The group drew inspiration from gigs at London’s Blue Note Club, a temple of drum & bass, and did its composing on tour during sound checks, from fragments of improvisation. The music springs into life naturally, effortlessly, like painting in the mirror of inspiration. On the back of these two albums the group acquired an international dimension, touring regularly, developing a trademark feelgood sound. The band made its first big change of direction in 2003 with the organic, bubbling rock-inspired “The walk of the giant turtle”. When sound engineers Corboz and Giuliani added distortion to his trumpet sound, Truffaz was initially infuriated, but then went on to espouse and develop the concept. With the “Arkhangelsk” album, the band came of age, in the company of Ed Harcourt and Christophe, two singers with two special voices and great tracks. In June 2010 Benoît Corboz, the band’s studio sound engineer since “The Dawn” took over from Patrick Müller on keyboards. The new line-up wasted no time in going into the studio. The result was a new sound, kneaded energetically like a dough, then left to rest and ferment before being worked up into the album "In Between", a celebration of slow tempos, deliberate silence, elastic space and intimacy. Marcello Giuliani reverted to upright bass and recorded one track on banjo. Guest singer Sophie Hunger added her wonderful voice on two tracks: “Dirge”, a Bob Dylan cover, and an original composition entitled “Let me go! ”."My new album “El Tiempo de la Revolución" expresses the successive revolutions through which our lives are chronicled, like a long poem written during the course of time, in a place where we are at once both actors and spectators. The time of the revolution is also the time of birth, of love and of death. It's a battle for a juster world beneath the banner of art. Through music we are enabled to weave a link between the sky and the earth." Erik Truffaz