Dale Cooper Quartet & the Dictaphones

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Dale Cooper Quartet & the Dictaphones
General information
origin Brest , France
Genre (s) Dark jazz
founding 2002
Current occupation
Gael Loison, Yannick Martin, Christophe Mevel
former members
Arnaud Le Gall
Live and session members
singing
 Zalie Bellacicco
singing
 Gaelle Kerrien
oboe
 Francois Lucas
singing
 Ronan Mac Erlain
guitar
 Cyril Pansal
clarinet
 Christophe Rocher
saxophone
 Krystian Sarrau

Dale Cooper Quartet & the Dictaphones is a dark jazz band founded as a quartet in 2002 .

history

The group was originally formed by Gaël Loison, Christophe Mevel, Arnaud Le Gall and Yannick Martin for a one-off improvised performance during a jazz night. The name of the group goes back to the main character of the television series Twin Peaks and is considered a throwback to the director David Lynch and the soundtrack composer Angelo Badalamenti .

The French project debuted with Parole de Navarre in 2006 via Diesel Cumstible. The album was hardly received internationally. The few reviews praised the album and put the group on a par with well-known representatives of the genre such as Bohren & the Club of Gore , The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation and The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble . In 2010 Denovali Records released the album again. Most of the subsequent releases were also released through Denovali Records.

After the initial success, the Dale Cooper Quartet increased the cast for performances and recordings. However, Le Gall left the group in the meantime. Nevertheless, the band retained the self-designation as a quartet and used the name Dale Cooper Quartet & the Dictaphones from then on. The second plant Métamanoir follows in 2011 . The album was highly praised and often compared to the music of Bohren & the Club of Gore. Kalle Stille from Ox-Fanzine called the album a “fresh cell treatment” of the “coolest and darkest bar jazz ”. In other reviews Métamanoir is judged as a positive release in dark jazz, as well as being described as a “hypnotic, dense album” and “a coherent and atmospherically dense listening experience”.

In September 2013 the band released a third album called Quatorze Pieces de Menace , with guest appearances by Gaëlle Kerrien ( Yann Tiersen ) and Alicia Merz ( Birds of Passage ). The album, like its predecessors, received critical acclaim. Sascha Bertoncin from Sonic Seducer estimated Quatorze Pieces de Menace as "more accessible than its predecessor 'Metamanoir', but no less ominous". In 2014 was followed by a little-noticed Split - EP with Witxes .

style

The group plays a mix of lounge jazz, ambient and post-rock known as Dark Jazz , which is often atmospherically similar to Doom Metal and Drone Doom and for which Bohren & the Club of Gore are particularly known. Accordingly, the music of Dale Cooper Quartet & the Dictaphones is often compared to that of Bohren & the Club of Gore, The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation and The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble. Mostly, reference is made to a basic mood that is perceived as gloomy. The work of Dale Cooper Quartet & the Dictaphones is considered “morbid music, unhappy and sad, dark and frightening”.

The instrumentation has a basis of electronic sounds that are described as "synth pads" in front of which individual winds, basses, drums and vocals unfold. The electronically generated rhythm, however, is considered to be constantly reduced and, as is common for the genre, particularly slow. According to Laut.de , the music offers a “spherical mixture of dark jazz and ambient trip hop in combination with shimmering electro elements”. With the recurring reference to trip-hop and electronica , the group is attested to be independent in the genre, which sets it apart from the mere epigonism compared to the comparative figures. The music "sometimes reminds of the sadness of the early Portishead ." The music is characterized "by being reduced to the essentials", but is based on improvisation, which is why the sound is perceived as "versatile and varied". The instruments would predominantly “limit themselves to offering a suitable backdrop”, in front of which “the vocals […] take on the role of the solo instrument”.

Discography

  • 2006: Parole de Navarre (album, Diesel Combustible)
  • 2010: Parole de Navarre (album, Denovali Records)
  • 2011: Métamanoir (album, Denovali Records)
  • 2011: Eux Exquis Acrostole / Elle Agréable Rendez-Vous de Chasse (BEKO DSL, download single)
  • 2013: Quatorze Pièces De Menace (Album, Denovali Records)
  • 2014: Dale Cooper Quartet & the Dictaphones / Witxes (Split EP, Denovali Records)
  • 2017: Astrild Astrild (Album, Denovali Records)

Web links

Individual evidence

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  3. ↑ a b c Peter: Dale Cooper Quartet & The Dictaphones: Parole De Navarre. Schall Grenz.de, accessed on May 11, 2017 .
  4. ^ A b c Peter: Dale Cooper Quartet & the Dictaphones: Métamanoir. Schall Grenz.de, accessed on May 11, 2017 .
  5. ^ A b Mathias Free Life : Dale Cooper Quartet & the Dictaphones: Métamanoir. power Metal, accessed May 11, 2017 .
  6. ^ Kalle Stille: Dale Cooper Quartet & the Dictaphones: Métamanoir. ox-fanzine, accessed May 11, 2017 .
  7. ^ A b c d e Moritz Grütz: Dale Cooper Quartet & the Dictaphones: Métamanoir. metal1.de, accessed on May 11, 2017 .
  8. ^ A b c Michael Siegl: Dale Cooper Quartet & the Dictaphones: Métamanoir. (No longer available online.) Metalnews, archived from the original on September 9, 2017 ; accessed on May 11, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.metalnews.de
  9. ^ A b Erik Voeckler: Dale Cooper Quartet & the Dictaphones: Métamanoir. the Pit, accessed May 11, 2017 .
  10. ^ Nocturnal Ghost: Dale Cooper Quartet & the Dictaphones: Quatorze Pieces de Menace. Igloo Mag, accessed May 11, 2017 .
  11. ^ Sascha Bertoncin: Dale Cooper Quartet & the Dictaphones: Quatorze Pieces de Menace. Sonic Seducer, accessed May 11, 2017 .