Jeremy LIROLA .Double Bass DENIS GUIVARC'H .Alto Saxophone Nicolas Larmignat .Drums Maxime Sanchez .Piano, Keyboards
description After Uptown Desire with its New York City roots, Mock the Borders invites us to challenge the limits defined in a world ruled by power. Music makes it possible to evolve freely and move beyond the frontiers so heavily guarded by algorithms, and security and sanitary norms. Ornette Coleman and the Harmolodie, to whom I feel the most connected, have always fascinated me for their zeal to transcend musical norms. Mock the Borders is not based on a central musical concept, but places at its center the urgency and the sensitivity of a world where, as Ornette said, music “allows everyone to be their own individual without having to imitate anyone else”.
Recording, mixing, mastering, Studios La Buissonne, Pernes les Fontaines, France. Recorded and mixed in June 2021 by Gérard de Haro.
Mastered by Nicolas Baillard at La Buissonne Mastering Studio.
Steinway grand piano tuned and prepared by Alain Massonneau.
Produced by La Poulie Production & Gérard de Haro and RJAL for La Buissonne Label.
Cover photo Jeremy Lirola, booklet & backcover photos by Adrien Berthet.
Thank you to Laure Woelfli, Frédérique Wirth, Victor Hocquet, Gillian Cante, Véréna Lansonneur, Laure Werckmann, Virginie Lonchamp, Valérie Bach, Stephane Litolff, Philippe Ochem, Jean Verne. Special thanks to Sandrine Amrhein and Elodie Abraham.
The label thanks Marc Thouvenot, Manfred Eicher, Sylvie de Haro, Philippe Ghielmetti,
David Grail, Michael Schmitt and everyone at ECM records.
