© Mehdi Benkler
Colin Vallon
Management / Booking Worldwide
Style of Music: Jazz
Label: ECM Records
Colin’s latest projects are:
Colin Vallon Solo
Vincent Courtois & Colin Vallon
are Vincent Courtois (cello), Colin Vallon (piano)
Colin Vallon Trio
are Colin Vallon (piano), Patrice Moret (bass), Julian Sartorius (drums)
Vallon-Michel-Rossy
are Colin Vallon (piano), Matthieu Michel (trumpet), Jorge Rossy (drums)
Colin Vallon Solo ITCH
piano, electronics
Also a member of Wolfgang Muthspiel Chamber Trio
Hearing the Colin Vallon Trio feels like you’re being knocked over by a wave, pulled under and spun around by the undertow. It’s an immersive experience, beautifully disorienting and dream like.
The music they make changes the mundane into the magical and uncanny, like a David Lynch classic or the haikus of master Hosai Ozaki. Technically it’s jazz, because it’s improvised and the people behind it are beastly, seasoned musicians. Tangentially, their sound fits the ECM paradigm – of course it does, it’s their label – the skilled use of silence to evoke tension etc. But it’s so much more than that. Think of it as an ever-evolving, shapeshifting universe constantly in flux. By the time you think you've got it all figured out, it's already becoming something else.
© Nicolas Masson
© Nicolas Masson