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Erik Truffaz
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Wednesday Sep 2, 2009 (9:30–11pm)
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$15
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"French trumpeter Erik Truffaz plays with such pristine minimalism -- in long silvery peals and soft metallic breaths"
- David Fricke, Rolling Stone
In 2005, Erik Truffaz was invited by his mentor John Hassell to play at the Montreal festival. He was taken aback by his kindness, his sense of space and the quality of his sound!
The Ladyland Quartet performed a series of concerts in Paris with Michel Portal and Julien Lourau as guests.
2006 was a hard-working year. He composed a play for the National Orchestra of Lilles for which he performed as soloist. During the second part of the evening, he played duets with both Richard Galliano and Didier Lockwood.
In addition, he regularly goes into battle with Pierre Henry, founder of electro –acoustic music.
Together with the pianist Malcolm Braff, and with Indrani and Apurba Mukherjee, he moved to India, which led to the Benares album. He also took part in the Ecritures de concert project with Malcolm Braff and the poet Joël Bastard.
He rubbed shoulders with Murcof, a tireless craftsman, and Talvin Singh joined them to create minimalist and contrasting music.
2008 was a fertile year with the release of 3 albums: Benares, recorded in Kolkata, Paris in duet with Sly Johnson and Mexico, resulting from musical ping pong between himself and Murcof.
