Amongst his many activities, Yves Rousseau has led his quartet, for more than ten years, in a job of writing and improvisation to the very limits of jazz and new music. The french group has already performed over a hundred concerts around France.
The instrumentation has not been heard before, giving this group its unique sound. It brings together four musicians with assertive personalities listening to different music such as jazz, of course, but also baroque music, song, and not forgetting the most important composers of the 20th century... The result is a great variety of melodies, tempi, nuances, choice of tones and playing styles...
This entirely new repertoire consists of four parts; water, fire, air and earth successively. Each suite highlights a soloist, always within a collective musical staging. This programme was performed for the first time at the Festival de Radio France at Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon. (Pressetext)