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Hebergeur d'image "PINK PARADISE" REVIEW ON THE BOSTON GLOBE: Sidony Box - saxophonist Elie Dalibert, guitarist Manuel Adnot, and drummer Arthur Narcy - refers to itself as a power jazz trio. Posed on the jacket of their new album in hooded sweatshirts and unshaven faces like the Beastie Boys, they are clearly aiming for a young audience. Their music, which blends shoegaze and modern prog-rock with jazz improvisation, feels expansive. “Pink Paradise’ ’ (Naive Records) pleads to be popped in a car stereo and played at high volume on the open road.With droning guitar and undulating waves of rhythm, the music is textured and layered, so much so that it sounds like a few more than three musicians. Dalibert’s alto sax is alternately melancholy and aggressive on tunes like “Suédois.’’ Despite the instrumentation, the trio draws on the aesthetics of certain rock bands - Radiohead, Tortoise, and Sonic Youth, in particular - as it constructs songs. (And these are structured songs, not aimless jams.) Sidony Box’s ethos crystallizes on the 10-minute drone “Léman’’ and on “Ultimate Pop Song,’’ a tune with a gorgeous hook that evokes both the melodicism and the expansive sound of Sigur Rós.
"PINK PARADISE" nommé "REVELATION" par le magazine JAZZMAG et "DECOUVERTE" par le magazine "JAZZNEWS"
FRANCK BERGEROT (JAZZMAG) (..)C’est peut-être le plus typé dans un double héritage : Steve Coleman et Tim Berne, avec un fort penchant pour le second. Cependant, rien ne prouve qu’ils aient écouté l’un et l’autre, et tout laisse à penser, notamment dans le lyrisme insidieux qui traverse ces enchaînements de cellules mélodiques et ses trames structurelles, qu’il y a là des influences dont nous ne savons rien, sinon très confusément. Si Steve Coleman et Tim Berne viennent à l’esprit, c’est moins à eux-mêmes précisément qu’aux portes qu’ils ont ouvertes chacun à leur manière sur un vaste territoire. Tout de même, cette qualité de phrasé du saxophone d’Elie Dalibert, ça ne vient pas de nulle part. On pense évidemment aussi à Marc Ducret, cependant avec les mêmes réserves, en écoutant le guitariste Manuel Adnot. Mais ce n’est pas ici le top model de la guitare fin de siècle qui vient à l’esprit, mais la qualité d’écriture du compositeur, avec chez Manuel Adnot un vocabulaire de voicing et de picking très personnel qui domine toute la musique du groupe et qui témoigne à la fois d’une vaste culture et d’un travail de chercheur. Quant au batteur, il nous a laissé pantois par l’étendue de son langage, son sens du détail et sa façon de gérer par la dynamique de son jeu toute la dramaturgie d’une prestation (...) (SIDONY BOX LIVE@LA DYNAMO à PARIS)
PINK PARADISE REVIEW ON "ALL ABOUT JAZZ" By DAN MCCLENAGHAN: Pink Paradise, by the French pow er trio Sidony Box, may sport the pinkest cover art since vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson's Happenings (Blue Note, 1966). The music, though, couldn't be more different. Hutcherson put together a bop quartet w ith pianist Herbie Hancock to craft a mellow and meditative sound. Sidony Box w ails w ith a guitar, sax and drums trio, bursting w ith urgency —a blazing and obstreperous crew . Even w hen the band drifts, as it does on the opening "Last Star," it does so w ith a certain intensity, conjuring images of a w aning star emitting a cold, radiant electronic w ave, on a drift through deep space, and announcing that Sidony Box is a conglomerate w ith an oddly metallic synchronicity. Many groups are praised for an organic approach; Sidony Box can be noted, in a positive light, for an inorganic sound. Elie Dalibert's alto sax echoes against Manuel Adnot's reverberating electric guitar—metal on metal—enmeshed in Arthur Narcy's roiling, and rumbling drums. "Tatooine" meanders w ith in an industrial ambiance before hitting a groove and cranking up to the high heat cooking level, flames blazing blue and threatening to burst out of control. The "TMNT," has a thrashing heavy metal rock feel, w ith doom just around the corner, w hile the title tune, on this set of all Sidony Box originals, takes the music into surreal, pastoral territory, a tune w ith a hopeful mood that leads into "Suedois," a tumultuous six minutes of heavy beats and squalling guitar and saxophone. Sidony Box boasts a style that melds jazz, pop and hard, in-your-face rock, w ith unfettered electronics supplied by Adnot. The trio demonstrates plugged-in muscularity on "W ilson," shifting into a spare and eerie ambiance on "Leman" before closing out w ith hauntingly beautiful "Ultimate Pop Song." Track Listing: Last Star; Tatooine; TMNT; Pink Paradise; Suedois; W ilson; Leman; Ultimate Pop Song.
PHILIPPE MEZIAT pour JAZZMAGAZINE: Sidony Box ont une fois de plus mérité la grande confiance qui leur a été faite depuis leur désignation dans le cadre de « Jazz Migration », prouvant que la « furia francese » n'avait pas disparu, et qu'elle est faite en partie de furie, de fureur, mais aussi d'une grande maîtrise, qui permet à Manuel de jouer des lignes de basses tout en égrenant de jolies formules à la guitare, à Elie d'alterner phrases déroulées en souplesse et grandes envolées free, et à Arthur de ponctuer leur belle musique façon « rock » ou « jazz » selon les moments. Décidément, l'école nantaise, ce n'est pas rien (...) une « jeune scène » jazz matinée de rock et d'expérimentation est sur le point de prendre la relève de ceux qu'on a connus, et qu'on connaît, et qui nous ont marqué dans le champ de l'improvisation (... ) (SIDONY BOX LIVE@ROME,ITALY)
SIDONY BOX LIVE: 26/05 Festival St Jazz-sur-Vie ( Saint Gilles Croix de Vie ) - 31/05 Dynamo Café ( Nantes ) Heberger image
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Hebergeur d'image Sidony Box “The best way to present the music of this trio is probably to emphasize the state of mind in which it arose as well as its aspirations. Urgency and obviousness first characterize Sidony Box which was created at the beginning of the summer 2009 not as a conceived project but more as the happy consequence of an unpremeditated encounter. While the three musicians play for the first time together, a genuine sound and the will of a common musical direction intrude naturally. Far from the classically well-ordered styles, each individual of this band brings in its own musical identity to design rapidly a unique repertoire inspired by the contemporary world, blending with ease separate musical universes. From then on, extemporaneous feelings and a savant mixture of influences are expressed in the name of spontaneity. While Manuel Adnot’s reference artists are numerous and eclectic such as Deftones, Happy Apple, Sigur Ros or Radiohead; Arthur Narcy is an ardent trance and “working sound” devotee, and Elie Dalibert is more anchored in the jazz tradition yet naturally open to all sound cultures. De facto present here and there, pop accents, metal, or noise are always underlain by an improvised speech which is the foundation of their pieces. Their only motto is to play totally. All in all, the raison d’être of the trio is to play the music of the moment rather than to lock itself in a definitive style. The pieces are most often collectively woven from a written pattern to a band composition in which three individualities blend to a unanimous speech, to the sound of the band.” Award-winner of the “Rezzo Jazz à Vienne 2010” showcase and selected for the Afijma’s “Jazz migration 2011” tour, Sidony Box has released this year its first eponymous album under the label Yolk and shortly after its second album “Pink Paradise” under the label Naïve. The band is currently touring in Europe and performs in mythic French Jazz places such as the Sunset or the Ancient Theater of Vienna. Hebergeur d'image SIDONY BOX is Arthur Narcy ( drums ), Manuel Adnot ( guitar ), and Elie Dalibert ( alto sax ) Hebergeur d'image Hebergeur d'image Hebergeur d'image

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