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about

"Human feelings generated through music have no barriers. I hope that you receive the musical feelings that we offer with an open mind and heart." Andrew Cyrille

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Andrew Cyrille is a Jazz icon, he played and recorded with many jazzlegends, including Coleman Hawkins, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Sun Ra, Freddie Hubbard, Red Garland and many others. In 1964 he started a collaboration with Cecil taylor that lasted eleven years. During that period he settled his name as a highly influential drummer. Andrew recently turned 75, and playing better than ever.

Laurens Smet, Seppe Gebruers (winner Sabam Awards, 2014) and Viktor Perdieus are members of the improvisation collective ‘Ifa y Xango’. The band won the ‘Young Jazz Talent’ contest in 2011 and released the year after their debut album ‘Abraham’.

The album was selected as ‘Best Debut Release 2013’ by the renown jazzmagazine ‘New York City Jazz Record’ (US).

Two years ago the three Belgian musicians invited Andrew Cyrille for a concert on the Jazz Middelheim festival. This concert was very well received by the audience and the press, and they decided to record an album together.

Guy Peters: "A few Belgian musicians recording an album with American (free) jazz veteran Andrew Cyrille who's been around for more than half a century and served with Coleman Hawkins, John Coltrane, Cecil Taylor, and an impressive list of European heavyweights of free improvisation. That doesn't seem too bad for a bunch of guys who have only been creating boldly adventurous music since the beginning of this decade. Viktor Perdieus (sax), Seppe Gebruers (piano) and Laurens Smet (bass) are all members of improv collective Ifa y Xango, which managed to win a high-profile talent contest in 2011 and followed it up with a remarkably assured debut album – Abraham – in 2012.

In 2013, three of them appeared at the yearly Jazz Middelheim festival in the company of Andrew Cyrille, a collaboration that worked so well that it led to this very album. And it's definitely an honor for the Belgians, as Cyrille was one of the musicians who, along with Sunny Murray, Milford Graves, Rashied Ali, Ed Blackwell and a handful of others, redefined the role of the drummer in modern jazz. He played with Cecil Taylor from the mid sixties until the mid seventies, with a young David S. Ware and David Murray in the seventies, appeared on a few of my favorite albums (John Carter's 'Castles Of Ghana' and Horace Tapscott's 'The Dark Tree') from the eighties/nineties, and is still keeping up this activity, still going strong with the respected Trio 3 and in many other contexts.

Cyrille is also often considered one of the most instinctively musical drummers of his generation. So the combination with these guys was something to look forward to, as they all have several projects delving into total improvisation, or offering more groove-oriented sci-fi funk, of the kind you could hear on Ifa y Xango's baffling second album, 'twice left handed \\ shavings', which appeared earlier this year. And while Perdieus and Smet appear to be modest men with moderate temperaments, Gebruers is the joker here. A guy with a frail physique that belies his turbulent energy, playing with vein-popping intensity, crashing chords while continually bobbing, shaking his head and singing along to the crazy symphonies in his head. So, a roughly tumbling free-for-all, then?
Well, not exactly, as 'Drop Your Plans' is much more restrained and tuneful than you might have expected. Even though it's not without its clamorous moments that crackle and fizzle with ideas, the album is not a monumental exercise in radical freedom and volume, but a surprisingly accessible affair in which the eleven pieces – nine compositions, two collective improvisations – find a nice balance between clear shapes and vague outlines, density and clarity, unity and fragmentation.

'Drop Your Plans' might appear more accessible or agreeable than expected when you take the history of these musicians into account, but the biggest risk is that you are going to underestimate the quality of these (mostly compact) pieces of music. At the heart of this album lies an exploratory spirit that combines the lyrical with the abstract, and the sensitive and intuitive with the rational. A warm, intimate and generous statement that first and foremost believes in the lasting power of human interaction, the subtle variations in the breaks and the fragments and the story that they might tell."

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credits

released August 9, 2015

Andrew Cyrille - drums
Seppe Gebruers - piano
Viktor Perdieus - saxophones
Laurens Smet - bass


Andrew Cyrille uses Ludwig Drums and Zildjan Cymbals.
Seppe Gebruers played on a Grand Pleyel - Paris 1920,
Original instrument restored by Chris Maene.

Recording: Werner Pensaert at studio Audioworkx
Mix:Werner Pensaert at Linster Studio
Mastering: Darcy Proper at Wisseloord Studios
Production: el NEGOCITO Records & Troika vzw (<3)
Artwork: Jelle Gebruers
Stills: Ruben Desiere

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