Garden of Silences

Clément Janinet is one of the most promising French violinists and composers, who is intensively involved in jazz, but only retains the freedom of playing and style from it. Influenced by repetitive music as well as traditional European and African music, his numerous projects each bear the stamp of these blends.
His new European quartet Garden of Silences with Arve Henriksen (NO) on trumpet, Ambre Villermoz (FR) on accordion and Robert Lucaciu (DE) on double bass is a prime example of cross-border creativity. It pushes the aesthetics of earlier projects (O.U.R.S. or La Litanie des Cimes), i.e. the fusion of free improvisation with classical repetitive music, with new partners who come from yet other horizons. In the dialog between violin, trumpet, accordion and double bass, the boundaries of repertoire and genre fall away: the baroque sound world meets that of the Swedish nyckelharpa or microtonal music, improvisation meets contemporary chamber music and folk traditions of all kinds. Music that could not be closer to the pulse of time and yet has a timeless effect.