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Hélas! 03:49
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Uncle Peter 01:47
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Molto Strano 02:33
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Composition: Iréne Schweizer, Joëlle Léandre, Maggie Nicols
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Two Waves 03:53
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Silly Boy 03:56
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Who Is Adam? 06:08
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Quifecit 04:34
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Intakt CD 048

LES DIABOLIQUES: A jamboree of skits and mini operas on love, collapsing marriages (including that royal one) politics and rejection from three of Europe's finest improvisers. Pianist Schweizer and bassist Léandre seem to have digested the last century's worth of jazz and classical traditions between them, yet their handling of them combines studious reverence with a freshness and humour you can almost reach out and touch. Nicols is in familiar company here and uses that air of friendly assurance to stretch herself even further. She has never recorded better - it's not just her four octave range which impresses; nor is it her ability to take the seemingly ordinary and find the extraordinary within it (and there's certainly plenty of that going on here): it's the way she articulates the processes of improvisation through song that makes this music so accessible. Highly recommended.
David Ilic, The Wire, London

CATALOGUE IRÈNE SCHWEIZER
www.intaktrec.ch/images/363_Schweizer-katalog21.pdf

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released January 1, 1997

Irène Schweizer: Piano
Maggie Nicols: Voice
Joëlle Léandre: Bass

All compositions by Irène Schweizer, Joëlle Léandre, Maggie Nicols. Recorded Nov 7, 8, 1994 at Rote Fabrik Zürich, Engineer: Peter Pfister. Cover art: Rosina Kuhn. Executive production: Rosmarie A. Meier. Produced and published by Intakt Records, Patrik Landolt

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Irène Schweizer Zürich, Switzerland

The pianist Irène Schweizer, born in 1941, is a figurehead of Swiss jazz and is one of the founders of European free jazz.

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