EMILE LONDONIEN - Legacy - LP - Vinyl [MAR 24]

LP - Black Vinyl. 

Emerging from the Strasbourg scene and the Omezis collective, which includes about twenty artists, musicians, DJs and videographers, Emile Londonien soaks up the English jazz scene of the last fifteen years and offers up a personal version.

Trained at the Strasbourg Conservatory, the three musicians met during thematic evenings organized by the Omezis collective, co-founded by drummer Matthieu Drago. A studio session paying tribute to the English scene followed in 2020. The moniker Emile Londonien, a double nod to their UK influences and to a famous French saxophonist, sprang up spontaneously.

The pandemic put the project on hold until their recordings fell into the hands of Dope Tone, the historical Strasbourg broken beat label, and then things started to accelerate. Influential DJs like Lefto immediately shared the tracks from this first session. Thus, emblematic of a generation that grew up in club culture, the band was launched, blending that very culture with the jazz trio tradition.

Influenced by Yussef Kamaal, The Comet Is Coming, Atjazz, SunRa, and also Ornette Coleman or Thelonious Monk and by the Broken Beat, Jazz, House, and Hip Hop scenes, Emile Londonien perfectly incarnates this ‘next gen’ French jazz alongside Léon Phal, whose sound is close to theirs. Beyond labels, they mix tradition and contemporary music with ease, as measured on the dancefloor.

Tracklist:

1. Legacy [04:29]
2. Still From The East [03:13]
3. Archives [04:51]
4. The Witness [01:46]
5. Laziness [03:30]
6. Make It Easy [03:05]
7. House Party (live at Worldwide festival) [01:53]
8. An Ode [05:01]
9. Omezis DNA [03:05]
10. Twenty Fifteen [03:09]
11. Emile [04:18]