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Cet hommage décoiffant donne à entendre quatre morceaux de la décennie 74-84 de la pianiste américaine. Avec une approche volontairement pop et un son puissant, ces quatre multi-instrumentistes viennent embellir la déjà très riche palette de timbres des compositions originales. Il confirme aussi combien la musique de Carla Bley s’ouvrait déjà vers d’autres contrées musicales pour y puiser son originalité. Les nouveaux arrangements décuplent le pouvoir évocateur de ces explorations.

Citizen Jazz – March 2022

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News

★ New single " Objet contondant " ⎮ released by Mr Morezon 👉 To listen HERE or THERE

★ New single " Ce Maudit volcan - radio edit " with Karen Mantler ⎮ released by Mr Morezon 👉 order ICI

★ First album called " La reine uphone " ⎮ released on the 14th February 2025 by Mr Morezon 👉 order ICI

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Line-up

Sébastien Cirotteau: trumpet, alto saxhorn, organ, synthesizer, voice
Andy Lévêque: alto saxophone, toy bass, keys, recorder, voice
Benjamin Glibert: electric guitar, bass, percussions, voice
Clem Thomas: drums, glockenspiel, ukulele, voice

Mortelle Randonnée

avant-pop - jazz iconoclaste

© Michel Mahaudran

A shining addition to the catalog of Carla’s music.

Steve Swallow, American bassist, Carla Bley sideman

Mortelle Randonnée takes a trip through Carla Bley's landscapes.
Pataphysical rock, avant-pop songs, weirdo jazz, out-of-tune fanfare, between veneration and parody.

Mortelle Randonnée explores the iconoclastic, hybrid repertoire of composer Carla Bley. Sixteen members and four musicians who play all at once - and at the same time - the instruments of the brass band and the power trio, toy instruments and a few keyboards to reinvent Carla Bley's whimsical arrangements.

In a disconcerting mix of genres: funambulistic anthems, patarock rhythms with no sense of coherence, repetitive and obsessive structures, psychedelic-folk delirium, avant-pop songs, Mortelle Randonnée takes a malicious pleasure in going off the beaten track and heckling us off-piste.

In 2023, the band had the pleasure of working with Karen Mantler, the daughter of Michael Mantler and Carla Bley, and touring with her in France.
She also recorded on Mortelle Randonnée's debut album. Released on the 14th February 2025.

© Eela Laitinen

Mortelle Randonnée is part of the French Toulouse-based Freddy Morezon collective and is supported by Centre National de la Musique (CNM), DRAC Occitanie, Région Occitanie, Occitanie en scène, Occijazz, L’Astrada (Marciac), Jazz à Luz and Jazzèbre.