WATERSHED by WATERSHED (Nicole Mitchell, Hanah Jon Taylor, Tomeka Reid, Denis Fournier, Bernard Santacruz

released October 28, 2012

"Dannie Richmond", "Le Partage des Eaux" and "La Voce de la Luna" by Denis Fournier, "Pathways" by Nicole Mitchell and "Prayer for Wadud" by Tomeka Reid

Recorded live on July 20th 2011 at Junas, France, at the occasion of Jazz à Junas 2011
Mixing and mastering: Jean-Pierre Bouquet, L’Autre Studio, Vaires-sur-Marne, France
Liner notes: Alexandre Pierrepont
Photographs: Frank Bigotte
Cover design: Max Schoendorff
Cover realization: David Bourguignon
Executive producer: Michel Dorbon

“I often say that I don’t make improvised music, but that I improvise music. In other words, I put together there and then elements of my life, of my history, of my culture…” says Denis Fournier. In other words, no structure commands the action. Every structure opens to the action (to sharing) which redefines it. On their side, Nicole Mitchell and Tomeka Reid propose, one a musical treasure trail (Pathways), in phases and superposed phrases, the other a lament which is also a homage (Prayer for Wadud), beginning solemnly, elevatory, but dispersing like the cellist Abdul Wadud who still lives isolated from the world. Because if the album starts briskly, it finishes through several series of halos - once reaching Prayer for Wadud and La Voce de la Luna which takes its name and its indolence from Federico Fellini’s last film, itself inspired by a book by Ermanno Cavazzoni entitled Il Poema dei lunatic - The Lunatics Poem… Alexandre Pierrepont