Ozone Acoustyle Quartet – Christophe Monniot, Emil Spányi, Mátyás Szandai, Joe Quitzke Organic Food
French saxophonist Christophe Monniot and Paris-based Hungarian master of various keyboards, Emil Spányi, created Ozone in 2006 as a duo. In 2010, with drummer John Quitzke already as a trio, they recorded their album This is C'est la vie at BMC Records.
Rounded up to a quartet lately with also Paris-based excellent Hungarian double bass player Mátyás Szandai, the foursome, named Ozone Acoustyle Quartet, played on the stage of BMC’s Opus Jazz Club in November 2014, mesmerizing its audience. The addition of the rhythm section was like an organic evolution of the decade-long symbiosis between Monniot and Spányi, and the result was a mature program with dense texture and a brilliant balance of composition and improvisation. Through nearly a year’s careful studio works by Emil Spányi in the LDF Studio, France, the recording of the concert became distilled to Organic Food.
Artists
Christophe Monniot – saxophones
Emil Spányi – piano, keyboards
Mátyás Szandai – double bass
Joe Quitzke – drums
About the album
All compositions by Christophe Monniot, except track 8 by Emil Spányi and track 9 (traditional)
Recorded live on 29 November, 2014 at BMC’s Opus Jazz Club
Mixed & mastered by Emil Spányi at LDF Studio in November, 2015
Christophe Monniot plays Selmer saxophones & Vandoren reeds
Borító: Huszár László / Greenroom
Produced by László Gőz
Label manager: Tamás Bognár
The recording was supported by the National Cultural Fund of Hungary and the French Institute of Budapest
Reviews
Nicolas Dourlhès - Citizen Jazz (élu) (fr)
Philippe Méziat - Jazz Magazine **** (fr)
Xavier Prévost - Les Inrockuptibles (fr)
Thierry Giard - Culture Jazz (fr)
Franpi Barriaux - SunShip (fr)
Marcelo Tchechenistky - Discos Argentinos (es)
Tor Hammerø - Tor Hammerø blog (no)
Jan Granlie - Salt Peanuts (no)
Robert Ratajczak - Hi Fi Muzyka **** (pl)
Robert Ratajczak - LongPlay (pl)
Z.K. Slabý - His Voice (cz)
Máté J. György - Gramofon *** (hu)
Dr. Nagy Sándor - Jazzma.hu (hu)
Márton Attila - Demokrata (hu)
Komlós József - Kecskemét online (hu)
Ozone Acoustyle Quartet – Christophe Monniot, Emil Spányi, Mátyás Szandai, Joe Quitzke: Organic Food