Marion: 5 Strophes

Track listing:1. Askings2.First Steps3. Who Talks4. The Deep Motion5. Deserts of Vast EternityFrench double bassist Louis-Michel Marion's sophomore solo double bass album (after his debut solo double bass album Grounds, Emil, 2012) blends influences from European schools of free improvisation and experimental, modern composers. Marion—who collaborates regularly with forward-thinking French improvisers like sax player Daunik Lazro, clarinetist Xavier Charles or pianist Sophie Agnel—describes himself as influenced by seminal, innovative double bass players such as Joëlle Léandre, Barry Guy and Peter Kowald and composers such as Giacinto Scelsi, Iancu Dumitrescu and Iannis Xenakis. Marion frames the five improvisations with a quote by thinker Henry David Thoreau who wrote in his journal that "unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thought;" a quote by composer Malcolm Goldstein emphasizes his search for "finding new and subtle twists and turns as things m