premiers pas!

Hello there,

I really like the composition of this song. The alternation between the louder saxophone parts and the lower piano parts creates this kind of tension that makes me feel melancholy somehow. But I like it. And I think it evokes some nostalgic flair.

But what about this dragon ? Measured by the music, it must be a very likeable one...

Pourquoi un seul titre ??? C'est absolument géant. Se situe quelque part entre King Crimson, Robert Wyatt et Franck Zappa... un jazz rock puissant est essentiel. Preuve s'il en fallait encore que le rock en tant qu'experience n'est pas mort avec l'apogée de la musique commerciale.

J'ai été écouter les titres dispos sur votre site... vraiment mortel. Thèmes longs aux mutiples facettes passant du jazz pur aux envolées de rock progressif, d'autres parties presque free jazz (je dis "presque" parceque c'est un free totalement maitrisé...) Vraiment bien, sacré niveau de jeu, compos très originales, variétés des instruments... Schizophonie porte sacrément bien son nom! Je vous souhaite d'être reconnus du public au plus vite !

It’s hard to say something about this quite short single. It’s just to short to say anything the whole record, however the composing premiers pas!, A l'heure ou le dragon se lève, is very much promising. It reminds me of some underground-jazz records of more melodic Lester Bowie or Medeski, Martin & Wood pieces or even moments from Henry Cow recordings. The record it’s very neatly composed and it has great, uplifting atmosphere. Arrangement is also very professional form the very beginning of paino melody, till the trumpet, base, piano, drums climax. The only drawback is the length of the tune. Although I understand that in their kind of jazz the mood is more important than showing-off, if it was twice longer and the musicians had time to show their jazz-skills I would simply fall for the band till the very end.
The cover is also a little bit too infantile for me. Like… a drawing of a dragon and birds. Too verbatim, I suppose. C’mon, it can get much better than this! Because of that, it’s a half point down.
If Les Sens Crient played live I would definitely go to see it, because it may be a really interesting jazz-journey.
Taking all under considerations it’s 8 for jamendo, but on my blog, when I can do what I want ;-) it’ll be 8 and a half.

Bonne composition, jazz dynamique,... mais techniquement c'est quand même pas d'un très bon niveau. Si le piano, la basse, la batterie et les percus sont pas mal, je reste beaucoup plus réservé sur la prestation de la trompette et du saxo qui ne sonnent pas toujours très juste.

Vous en avez trop dit ou pas assez, on veut les autres morceaux maintenant :)