The Fish - Live at Olympic Café & Jazz à Mulhouse

Bruce Lee Gallanter, DMG Newsletter

Two members on The Fish, Jean-Luc Guionnet and Edward Perraud, are members of the great French improv quintet Hubbub, who have two fine discs on Matchless and I caught at the Victo Fest a few years back.

Percussionist, Edward Perraud, can be heard on an excellent recent duo disc with Paul Rogers on FMR. Disc 1 was recorded at the Olympic Cafe in December of 2005 and Disc 2 was recorded at the Jazz a Mulhouse in August of 2006, both in France.
Unlike Hubbub, this trio is not so restrained. Disc 1 explodes open with some powerful alto/bass/drums trio action, very concentrated and quite intense. They are very tight as they erupt together into a swirling storm of burning energy.

This is wonderful free/jazz spirit music at its best, unleashed and mind-blowingly immense. All three players are well-matched and swirl tightly together into one dynamic force. It is impossible to tell where these cats come from, just by listening they speak the universal language of free/music as well as anyone well-known or unknown.