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''Napoli's Walls'' is an album by French clarinetist
Louis Sclavis Louis Sclavis (born 2 February 1953) is a French jazz musician. He performs on clarinet, bass clarinet, and soprano saxophone in a variety of contexts, including avant-garde jazz, free jazz, free improvisation and contemporary classical. Life ...
recorded in December 2002 and released on
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Reception

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review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars stating "this record is full of sensual pleasure and an utterly accessible, often deeply moving articulation of a new musical language."Jurek, T
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, Aaron Steinberg wrote:
"If you're curious about Sclavis' work as a leader, a great place to start would be the Frenchman's latest recording, the particularly pungent ''Napoli's Walls''. Between 1987 and 1995, French painter
Ernest Pignon-Ernest Ernest Pignon-Ernest (born 1942) is a Fluxus and Situationist French artist, born in Nice. Overview His first work was done in 1966.Cedar Lewisohn, ''Street art: the graffiti revolution'', Tate, 2008, p. 69 It was a reaction to France's Nucle ...
wandered around the Italian city of Naples, literally applying his artwork to the walls of the city. Pignon-Ernest's scenes depicting suffering and pain in a stark, classical style inspired Sclavis to form a new group and write new music in response. Sclavis has shown a particular talent for putting together remarkable bands tailored to specific projects, and this is no exception."Steinberg, A.
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January/February 2005


Track listing

:''All compositions by Louis Sclavis except as indicated'' # "Colleur de nuit" – 10:38 # "Napoli's Walls" – 7:22 # "Mercè" – 3:03 # "Kennedy in Napoli" – 6:29 # "Divinazione moderna I" – 3:34 # "Divinazione moderna II" – 3:35 # "Guetteur d'inaperçu" – 8:23 # "Les apparences" – 4:39 # "Porta segreta" (Vincent Courtois) – 5:07 # "Il disegno smangiato d'un uomo" – 7:12


Personnel

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Louis Sclavis Louis Sclavis (born 2 February 1953) is a French jazz musician. He performs on clarinet, bass clarinet, and soprano saxophone in a variety of contexts, including avant-garde jazz, free jazz, free improvisation and contemporary classical. Life ...
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soprano saxophone The soprano saxophone is a small, high-pitched member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented in the 1840s by Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax. Built in B♭ an octave above the tenor saxophone (or rarely, slightly small ...
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baritone saxophone The baritone saxophone (sometimes abbreviated to "bari sax") is a member of the saxophone family of instruments, larger (and lower-pitched) than the tenor saxophone, but smaller (and higher-pitched) than the bass saxophone, bass. It is the lowe ...
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Médéric Collignon Médéric Collignon (born 6 July 1970 in Villers-Semeuse, Ardennes) is a French jazz vocalist, cornettist and saxhorn player. He learnt to play the trumpet at the age of five, became a pupil at the Conservatoire de Charleville-Mézières in 19 ...
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References

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