For those unaware, Québéc’s collaboration-happy chamber jazz experimentalists Brûlez les meubles have just launched their fifth album, Folio #5, a LP, CD and digital jointly released by Circum-Disc and Tour De Bras.

Spearheaded by Éric Normand (bass) and Louis Beaudoin-de la Sablonnière (guitar), their previous outing featured partnerships with acclaimed guest artists Jean Derome and John Hollenbeck.

Meanwhile this new album sees them inviting lauded improviser-composers Ingrid Laubrock (saxophone) and Marianne Trudel (piano) into the fold, while bringing back alumnus Jonathan Huard (vibraphone). And while they never shied away from texture, there’s a newfound atmospheric quality here on account of it being their first release without drums.

Yet, there’s also power and cohesion in their mirage-like pieces, no doubt a result of the potent ensemble chemistry heard here. OutsideLeft have already touted it as a breathtaking concoction of errant chamber-jazz, remarking that listening might be one of the better things to do for yourself and it also was featured on BBC Radio 6’s New Music Fix.

1. Argentique [4:22]
2. Conscience du tragique [7:12]
3. La vie commence aujourd’hui [7:09]
4. Vagues / Spider Song [6:16]
5. Paradoxe de la joie [5:49]
6. Folio [5:51]

This wonderfully crafted, elegantly sculpted new recording opens on the hauntingly ethereal, yet compulsively flirtatious Argentique and then we are brought forth the preconsciously jaunty Conscience du tragique, the all-encompassing work of musical art La vie commence aujourd’hui, and then we are given the veritably cinematic Vagues / Spider Song, the album rounding out on a gently spirited rhythmic growth within Paradoxe de la joie, coming to an all too soon close on the ambiently dulcet Folio.

Musicians:
Louis Beaudoin-de la Sablonnière: electric guitar
Éric Normand: electric bass
Ingrid Laubrock: tenor saxophone
Jonathan Huard: vibraphone
Marianne Trudel: piano

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