Delbecq, Benoit / Nu-Turn
Album: Nu-Turn   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Delbecq, Benoit   Added:Jun 2003
Label:Songlines Recordings  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2003-06-23 Pull Date: 2003-08-25 Charts: Jazz
Week Ending: Aug 24 Aug 3 Jul 27 Jul 13
Airplays: 1 1 1 1

Recent Airplay
1. May 16, 2008: Memory Select
Into White
4. Aug 01, 2003: Memory Select
In Lilac
2. Aug 29, 2003: Memory Select
Into White
5. Jul 25, 2003: Memory Select
Into White
3. Aug 22, 2003: Memory Select
Into White
6. Jul 11, 2003: Memory Select
Into White

Album Review
Craig Matsumoto
Reviewed 2003-06-22
Solo piano, often including prepared piano, where he blocks certain strings with a wood block or similar object. Nice chamber/classical atmosphere -- lots of reverb -- colored by some free-jazz ideas. Prepared piano tracks have a percussive sound for an almost "world music" feel (esp. 3, 9).

You can hear more of Delbecq, in a more directly jazz-related setting, on the album "Y?" by the Bertrand Denzler Cluster -- highly recommended.

1*- Gently popping groove
2- A loose feel, a mid/fast burble
3- Light, mid/fast. Ghostly high notes
4*- Quick patterings
5- Slow classical feel
6- Fast, serious
7- Slow and darkly dramatic, lots of pauses
8- Mid/fast, serious feel, sticks to high registers
9*- Spacey prepared piano, sounds like a percussion collective.

Track Listing
1. In Rainbows   6. On Embers
2. In Lilac   7. Nu-Turn (Etude De Nu)
3. On Ne Dit Pas Regarder ...   8. In Funfairs
4. On Laterite   9. Into White
5. Into Neon   .