Hôtel du Nord (album)

Hôtel du Nord is a studio album by American violinist Mark Feldman and pianist Sylvie Courvoisier together with drummer Gerry Hemingway and bassist Thomas Morgan. The album was released on the Intakt Records label in 2011.[2] This is the follow-up album for their 2010 To Fly to Steal recorded by the same line-up.

Hôtel du Nord
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 15, 2011
RecordedJanuary 3, 2011
StudioSear Sound, New York City
GenreContemporary classical music
Length1:00:16
LabelIntakt Records Intakt CD 192
ProducerMark Feldman, Sylvie Courvoisier, Patrik Landolt
Mark Feldman chronology
Oblivia
(2010)
Hôtel du Nord
(2011)
Sylvie Courvoisier chronology
Oblivia
(2010)
Hôtel du Nord
(2011)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
The Guardian[1]

Reception

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John Fordham of The Guardian wrote "his album follows up last year's To Fly to Steal, on which Swiss pianist Courvoisier and her former Nashville violinist husband, Feldman, explored a delicate soundworld between free improv and contemporary classical music with the American bass-and-drums pairing of Thomas Morgan and Gerry Hemingway. It was a testament to the empathy of the two leaders, but this compelling session shows how far their new partnership with Morgan and Hemingway (a former Anthony Braxton percussionist) has come. It's full of an ethereal, non‑referential lyricism of the players' own – an affirmation of the power of pattern and audibly evolving relationships, even if very little of it resembles songs – save for Feldman's occasional offhand jazz quotes, like Goodbye Pork Pie Hat which is slipped into a drifting abstract passage."[3]

Glenn Astarita of JazzReview stated "Adventurous expressionism is a key factor within semi-structured or avant jazz-based endeavors. With their second quartet outing for Intakt Records, pianist Sylvie Courvoisier and violinist Mark Feldman cover a gamut of articulately designed modes of interaction. Introspective, sublime and occasionally foreboding, the quartet engineers a potpourri of delicacies, all executed with a deterministic modality."[4]

Track listing

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No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Hôtel du Nord"Feldman9:53
2."Dunes"Courvoisier11:37
3."Plan A"Feldman10:11
4."December 2010"Courvoisier9:06
5."Little Mortise"Courvoisier, Feldman, Hemingway, Morgan4:42
6."Inceptions"Courvoisier, Feldman, Hemingway, Morgan8:32
7."Gowanus"Courvoisier, Feldman, Hemingway, Morgan6:15
Total length:01:00:16

Personnel

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  • Mark Feldman – violin
  • Sylvie Courvoisier – piano
  • Thomas Morgan – bass
  • Gerry Hemingway – drums

References

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  1. ^ Fordham, John (26 May 2011). "Sylvie Courvoisier/Mark Feldman Quartet: Hôtel du Nord – review". The Guardian. theguardian.com. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
  2. ^ "Sylvie Courvoisier - Mark Feldman Quartet – Hôtel Du Nord". Discogs. discogs.com. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
  3. ^ Fordham, John (26 May 2011). "Sylvie Courvoisier/Mark Feldman Quartet: Hôtel du Nord – review". The Guardian. theguardian.com. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
  4. ^ Astarita, Glenn (29 March 2011). "Hotel Du Nord by Sylvie Courvoisier - Mark Feldman Quartet". Jazzreview. jazzreview.com. Retrieved 28 April 2017.