DESCRIPTION:
Directed by Stéphane Payen (alto sax) and composed by Gilles Coronado (guitar), Hubert Dupont (electric bass and double bass) and Christophe Lavergne (drums), the group Thôt is a spin-off from the Hask collective, a Parisian galaxy of musicians in the wake of M'Base of Steve Coleman. They share his concerns of musical arithmetic, overlapping tempos and meters. Barren, the music of Stephane Payen reaps the fruits of his hard labor, growing more and more flexible and natural as time goes by. It deepens through real composition, showing rhythmic conceptions that contaminate melodic, harmonic and even orchestral aspects. Thôt welcomes recruits from the galaxies of Hask (the drummer Franck Vaillant, the saxophonist Guillaume Orti) and Belgian musicians with neighboring concerns: Pierre Bernard, Michet Massot, Antoine Prawerman, Pierre Van Doarmel, all improvisers and exceptional instrumentalists. With this « growth », it gains depth of field in this vertiginous exercise of illusion. A fascinating sound kaleidoscope.