Published on November 12, 2024 at 11:04.
On stage, they are in the background, often in the shadows. But they are the ones who keep the rhythm, dictate the tempo. Drummers have their stars – Tony Allen, Manu Katché, Meg White, Moe Tucker, Chad Smith, Terry Bozzio… – but apart from within the jazz scene, they are often the great forgotten ones in the history of music. Alberto Malo knows something about this, having spent a lot of time, in the studio or on tour, in the shadow of Sophie Hunger, Tété, Françoise Hardy, Jacques Higelin, Mélanie De Biasio, Stephan Eicher and even Jeanne Balibar.
A little before the covid pandemic, hardly ideal timing even if the closure of cultural venues allowed him to fully invest, he finally decided to move from the shadows to the light and set up his own project, MALO. Giving free rein to his deep desires, he reveals through adventurous recordings and pieces that can be long and winding a universe between ambient, electronica, jazz and dark hip-hop. As part of the Cully Jazz Festival, where he resides, he offered in the summer of 2021 during a redesigned edition then last spring as part of the off, hypnotic concerts, like trances, journeys to the confines of programmed music and improvised.
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