Album lore

Le retour d’Ulysse, issued in early 2015 on Atypeek Music and Improvising Beings, assembles bassist Benjamin Duboc and violinist Alexandra Grimal in a sparse, exploratory dialogue. Spanning twelve tracks, the album traverses the contours of free jazz and noise music, occasionally brushing against krautrock rhythms and indie jazz textures. The improvisations unfold with an unhurried intensity, where Grimal’s violin arcs and Duboc’s resonant bass lines engage in a delicate, often dissonant interplay.Recorded with minimal production, the album foregrounds raw instrumental exchange over polished studio gloss. “Ithaque” exemplifies this approach, offering a fragment of the record’s broader impulse to reexamine jazz’s boundaries through a European avant-garde lens. Though modest in audience reach, Le retour d’Ulysse remains a document of two musicians probing the margins of improvisational form with patience and precision.

Album lore

Le retour d’Ulysse, issued in early 2015 on Atypeek Music and Improvising Beings, assembles bassist Benjamin Duboc and violinist Alexandra Grimal in a sparse, exploratory dialogue. Spanning twelve tracks, the album traverses the contours of free jazz and noise music, occasionally brushing against krautrock rhythms and indie jazz textures. The improvisations unfold with an unhurried intensity, where Grimal’s violin arcs and Duboc’s resonant bass lines engage in a delicate, often dissonant interplay.Recorded with minimal production, the album foregrounds raw instrumental exchange over polished studio gloss. “Ithaque” exemplifies this approach, offering a fragment of the record’s broader impulse to reexamine jazz’s boundaries through a European avant-garde lens. Though modest in audience reach, Le retour d’Ulysse remains a document of two musicians probing the margins of improvisational form with patience and precision.