ROLAND BRIVAL - Creole Gypsy LP Poster Their precisely articulated timbre-focused music

Their precisely articulated timbre-focused music traverses malleability of material and form

For two decades Cécile Schott as Colleen has crafted welcoming

The steady strums of banjo and flutters of fiddle on “Prune” were initially laid atop tambura which was subsequently removed from the piece to give a stronger sense of space and slower pace

melancholy synths

the album gradually mutates into hypnotic pulsations and melodic melancholia

ROLAND BRIVAL - Creole Gypsy LP Poster Their precisely articulated timbre-focused musicMusician, poet and painter Roland Brivals 1980 album is a lost classic of Caribbean spiritual jazz. Recorded with a group of Martiniques top musicians, and combining the bl percussion traditions of the island with free flowing saxophone, rhodes flourishes and languorous bass, the album was rejected by Rolands label of the time, and was ultimately self released in miniscule quantities to a small local audience. Themes of crole identity and colonial