CARTE BLANCHE FOR MAGIC MALIK

With his Quartet XP - XP for Expérience, of course - Magic Malik continues to explore the open terrain where jazz reinvents itself with every note. A flautist with singular ideas, curious about everything, he plays with sounds as others play with light: shifting shadows, revealing new colours. His flute speaks, blows, plays, sometimes bursts into flames, carried by the very special energy that runs through all his music. At her side are three musicians as inventive as they are attentive: Maïlys Maronne on piano, Jean-Luc Lehr on bass and Vincent Sauve on drums. Together, they create a space for collective play, where improvisation becomes a common language. Here we come across shifting grooves, unexpected harmonies and bursts of melody that spring up and then immediately escape. Nothing is set in stone, everything is transformed, that's the very principle of the experiment. After an incandescent live album recorded at Baiser Salé, hailed for its freshness and spontaneity, Quartet XP continues to chart its course: music in motion, both demanding and generous, to be followed with eyes closed and hearts wide open.