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The fantastic Designers on vinyl LP, and not just that, A WHITE+BLACK MARBLED vinyl LP. Inside-out sleeve and printed inner sleeve.

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Designers on CD!! Laminated digisleeve (no breaking plastic parts). Solid.

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Signed by all three members with silver pen.

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Signed by ALL MEMBERS of the trio, on a Thursday night at G Livelab Helsinki during the We Jazz Festival, 1 Dec 2022.

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1.	Lebanon 04:38	buy track
2.	Moulindjek 05:38	buy track
3.	Procession 08:41	buy track
4.	Folk Song 03:34	buy track
5.	Engrenages 06:38	buy track
6.	Point Ligne Sur Plan 06:47	buy track
7.	Tintinabulisme 04:44	buy track
8.	White Keys 03:33	buy track

about

Designers are Joachim Florent on double bass, Will Guthrie on drums, Aki Rissanen on piano. This is their debut album together, released by We Jazz Records on 2 Dec. Their music, composed by Joachim Florent, is inspired by geometry and architecture. The music flows as minimalist, postmodern piano trio jazz of the highest calibre, as evidenced by the lead single "Moulindjek". Florent (from Belgium) and Guthrie (from Australia) are based in Nantes, France, and Rissanen (from Finland) also has strong ties to the city.

Joachim Florent says:

"As a kid I started playing music with the piano and I keep playing it every day, even if pretty poorly, and use it to compose and discover new music. In 2019 I started to write some piano studies that appeared to be pretty geometrical in a way, so I had this idea I could bring some music for the trio that would be inspired by geometry and architecture. In the meantime, I knew that we would improvise as much as possible as Aki and Will are among the most brilliant improvisers I've ever met! So the challenge for me was to write as little as possible but to make the material strong enough to suggest a particular geometric feeling for each tune.

I discovered Filip Dujardin's work some ten years ago and I was struck by the power of these impossible architectures looking so familiar and totally surrealist in the meantime. I guess that's how I would love Designers to sound: both familiar and surrealist."

LIVE AT WE JAZZ FESTIVAL
2.12. G LIVELAB HELSINKI
wejazz.fi/2022

credits

released December 2, 2022

DESIGNERS

AKI RISSANEN piano
JOACHIM FLORENT double bass
WILL GUTHRIE drums

Composed by Joachim Florent
Recorded at Studio Sextan (Paris-Malakoff, FR) on 21–22 September 2021 by Alban Sautour
Mixing by Boris Darley
Mastering by Juho Luukkainen
Additional vinyl mastering by JSA at Timmion Cutting (Helsinki, FI)
Produced by Stellar Music (www.stellarmusic.org)
Illustrations by Vera Lönnqvist
Executive producer and design by Matti Nives

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We Jazz Records is a label based in Helsinki releasing cutting edge jazz music on vinyl + additional formats.

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