The Colin Vallon Trio releases “Samares”, an album which takes its listeners into an autumn forest where children play. Composed of Patrice Moret on double bass, Julian Sartorius on drums and Colin Vallon on piano, the trio, which has existed since 2014, is releasing its third album.
In botany, the samara is a seed equipped with a small wing which allows the dispersal of the fruit. These winged seeds inspired Colin Vallon to name the new album from the trio he forms with Patrice Moret and Julian Sartorius.
This new disc, which will be released on November 15, enchants with its apparent sobriety and its very ample improvisation which quivers at every moment. As a common thread, the Vaudois pianist chose the trees and the forest, from which the samaras come. Asked about the aesthetic choices of this latest opus, Colin Vallon talks about parenthood. And therefore “an element of life, an inspiration, rather than a real aesthetic choice”, confides in Musique Matin of November 7 the man who became a father between his last two albums.
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A bond that strengthens in Thun
Born in Lausanne at the very beginning of the 1980s, Colin Vallon grew up in Yverdon-les-Bains and attended the Swiss Jazz School in Bern. In 2016, he was nominated for a Swiss Music Prize. The pianist has a very fine discography, half of which has been published on the prestigious ECM label.
In 2014, he recorded his first album alongside Patrice Moret and Julian Sartorius. Their fruitful collaboration finds its origins in a series of concerts given over ten years in Thun, at the Mokka café. “It’s a very small place, in which we play without amplification. The fact of seeing each other regularly, in the tradition of all these legendary jazz groups who played for months together, has developed our sound, our way of interacting” , indicates Colin Vallon.
This series of concerts, called “Cocoon”, allowed the trio to take liberties with the pieces not only in terms of sound, but also musically. “We experimented quite a bit with concepts, ideas that were a little crazy. (…) We developed a lot in this place.”
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If Colin Vallon signs the composition of the pieces of “Samares”, the work then remains collective. “I come up with ideas for compositions and we work on them together, we find arrangements, ways to change the rhythm, the bass line or the textures. It’s a collective work, but more of an arrangement”.
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Colin Vallon Trio, “Samares” (ECM Records). To be released on November 15, 2024. The trio is currently performing in concert in Switzerland and abroad.
