Hradcany,serge adam,philippe botta,david venitucci

Hradčany
doc 068 - press

	Jazzmagazine 2003			Accordion magazine 2003
	As its authors present it, this disc is an "atypical and passionate about the folklore of Eastern Europe with a particular focus on popular Turkish music”. The repertoire mixes traditional themes with beautiful compositions inspired by the knowledge that the members of the trio have of oriental or Balkan music. Without drums or percussion, the challenge is to keep all their bounce in these dancing tunes, often festive music: in turn, the three instrumentalists – Serge Adam on trumpet, Philippe Botta on soprano or tenor, and David Venitucci on accordion - therefore alternate roles, assuming the accompaniment as well as the rhythmic maintenance with great panache. Jazz only intervenes as the improvised element that the three musicians harmonize, with a margin of expression, somewhat reduced by the context. The passion is perceptible, the music does not lack vitality. But what at first is picturesque and suggestive ends up appearing somewhat tiresome and redundant in the long run because the chosen formula, as light and airy as it is, disadvantageously reduces the palette of timbres and the poetry of the evocations. The whole forms an album more conducive to listening to oneself as one flips through a travel book, at random, rather than to be read in one go. 1 CD what's new doctor DOC068 distributed by Night & Day. Vincent Bessieres			Formed almost three years ago, the ex-trio Abelao did not fail to happily skate their atypical music on stage, before jumping into the water in the studio. And it feels. Between the East and the Balkans, between Eastern European folklore and popular Turkish music, the three globe-trotting improvisers passionately explore a repertoire they know inside out. They walk in the same footsteps, alternating roles with disconcerting ease and vitality. Serge Adam's trumpet and Philippe Botta's saxophones heckle freely, without drums or nets, and bounce off the chromatic basses of David Venitucci's accordion. A Venitucci more sparkling and caustic than ever, which proves with this kind of baptism of fire all the good that one is entitled to expect from its laboratory accordion. J.D.-A
				Improjazz 2003
				This trio of an original composition plays music with Eastern European accents. Serge Adam covers Bucarest, from the suite of the same name (1999, Vent d'est VE001) and Hradcany composed for Barocoj in 1998, as well as three traditional themes. The trio seeks both the mobility of the ensemble and the autonomy of its members, but the remarkable respect for the tempos and spirit of popular music mentioned, the desire to avoid long solos, certainly play a blocking role. with musicians. Taken in these constraints, the musicians produce a very pleasant, vigorous and virtuoso music, but rather compact and wise, without much emotion. Despite a very fine work and undeniable musical qualities, they do not manage to find the exact distance from tradition on the one hand, from jazz and improvisation on the other. The feeling, common to jazz and Eastern music, of bursting, of irrepressible emotion making its way through the music, is somewhat stifled in this recording; the trio remains to be heard in public. Noël Tachet