Brun-Courtois-Fincker - Les Demons De Tosca (CD)

Les Démons de Tosca is a multidisciplinary project involving nine musicians, one comedian, one photographer and a sound-designer. It questions the notion of 'demon' in the creative process. Using the libretto for Puccini's opera Tosca, each concert features a new combination of players from the ensemble. One of which happened at the Opus Jazz Club in the Budapest Music Center.'When the proposal came from the BMC label produce a 'live' CD of the trio's concert, it was quite clear to us, the three musicians, that this could only represent a small part, one instant, of the shape-shifting expressions of the 'Demons of Tosca'.Then, once the excitement of hearing the recording had passed, there was a desire to refine this snapshot, to play bluff with time we improvised in the concert, to cut it into pieces, to fashion these pieces, and bring out shadows and contrasts.This was followed by the idea of giving free reign to another improviser with new ears, Alex Bonney, to manage the sound prod