Eve Risser

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Eve Risser (2018)

Eve Risser (* 1982 ) is a French jazz and improvisation musician ( flute , (prepared) piano , toy instruments , electronics) and composer .

Life

Risser, who grew up in Alsace, first received classical flute and piano lessons. She performed chamber music before getting into improvised music and jazz. She studied in eastern France, Paris and Baltimore . In September 2008 she invited Daniel Yvinec to the Orchester National de Jazz , with whom she participated in the Robert Wyatt project Around Robert Wyatt (2009) and the John Hollenbeck album Shut Up and Dance (2010). In 2011 she worked with the band PAK around Ron Anderson ( Secret Curve ), but also performed with Pascal Niggenkemper and Émilie Lesbros in the Cologne Loft and then belonged to his ensemble Vision 7 . In 2012 she presented the album En Corps , which was created in a trio with Benjamin Duboc and Edward Perraud , which was followed by another album with the same line-up in 2017. Risser is currently also working as a soloist and in the formations Donkey Monkey (with Yuko Oshima ), The New Songs (with Kim Myhr , Sofia Jernberg and David Stackenäs ), Fenêtre Ovale (with Karl Naegelen and Joris Rühl ).

Risser performed in 2010 in the duo Donkey Monkey at the Moers Festival . She continues to play solo concerts, writes for various ensembles and runs the Umlaut label . Her project White Desert Orchestra , which was first presented at the 2015 Banlieues Bleues Festival in Paris, deals with the sound of vastness as it can be experienced in the Grand Canyon in Arizona.

Risser lives in Paris.

Discographic notes

Eve Risser (left) with Yuko Oshima (2010)
  • Donkey Monkey: Ouature (Umlaut Records, 2007)
  • Eve Risser / Joris Rühl: Split (Umlaut Berlin, 2010)
  • Fenêtre Ovale: Fenêtre Ovale (Umlaut Records, 2011)
  • Donkey Monkey: Hanakana (Umlaut Records, 2011)
  • PAK: Secret Curve ( Tzadik , 2011)
  • Eve Risser / Benjamin Duboc / Edward Perraud: En corps (Dark Tree Records, 2012)
  • The New Songs: A Sonic Nest at the Junction of Paths (Umlaut Records, 2012)
  • Des pas sur la neige ( Clean Feed Records , 2015; solo)
  • Eve Risser & White Desert Orchestra Les deux versants se regardent (Clean Feed Records, 2016; with Sylvaine Hélary, Antonin-Tri Hoang , Benjamin Dousteyssier, Sophie Bernado, Eivind Lønning , Fidel Fourneyron, Julien Desprez, Fanny Lasfargues, Sylvain Darrifourcq )
  • Eve Risser & Kaja Draksler ; To Pianos (Clean Feed, 2017)
  • Marcelo dos Reis / Eve Risser: Timeless (JACC Records, 2017)
  • En Corps: Generation (2017), with Benjamin Duboc • Edward Perraud

Web links

Commons : Eve Risser  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from April 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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.vimusiker.se
  2. ↑ a b Portrait at ONJ ( Memento from July 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Eve Risser / Benjamin Duboc / Edward Perraud: En Corps (2012) at All About Jazz
  4. ^ Review of All About Jazz
personal data
SURNAME Risser, Eve
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French jazz and improvisation musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1982