A demo track of this new band/workshop, a composition by Delbecq. With Alain Vankenhove, tp, Charley Rose, tenor sax, Benoît Delbecq, piano, Etienne Renard, bass, Samuel Ber, drums. Recorded at Bureau de Son Paris, 2021.

Multiplexers, a track by BENOIT DELBECQ AND THE MULTIPLEXERS

Benoît Delbecq, piano
Etienne Renard, bass
Guilhem Flouzate, drums

Recorded at Bureau de Son Paris in December 2021.

04 Courbet (Renard)

02 Ceramics (Delbecq)

03 The Stone We Left Unturned (Flouzat)

01 Triple Fever (Delbecq)

A live track from Le Triton (FR) Jan 26, 2023.

Benoît Delbecq and The Multiplexers

THE LOOP OF CHICAGO (Delbecq)

Alain Vankenhove, tp
Charley Rose, tenor sax
Samuel Blaser, trombone
Benoît Delbecq, piano and tronics
Etienne Renard, bass
Samuel Ber, drums

Recorded by Bastien Boissier

Benoit Delbecq and the Multiplexers 26 JAN 2023 @LE TRITON __The Loop Of Chicago (Delbecq)

Non-mixed promo track to appear on PLUG AND PRAY: undocile wizards of odds Benoit Delbecq and Jozef Dumoulin's new duo - Old and new keyboards as well as pianos and on-the-fly drum'n bass human beats. To be released on dStream, a new label based in Paris, France, starting this fall of 2016. Benoît Delbecq on piano, drum'n bass station, keys - Jozef Dumoulin, Fender Rhodes, Tronics.

PLUG AND PRAY (Delbecq/Dumoulin) Bdjd 19 _a Rough Mix_

Opening track for INK Delbecq 3, with Benoît Delbecq on piano, Miles Perkin on bass and Emile Biayenda on drums and perc. Out on CleanFeed. Released late 2015.

LE RUISSEAU (Delbecq) - Delbecq 3 featuring Miles Perkin and Emile Biayenda

Opening track for "Circles and Calligrams", the second piano solo disc by Delbecq, released on Songlines Recordings in 2010. This album was awarded the Grand Prix du Disque de l'Académie Charles Cros in 2010 and several more awards.

Circles and Calligrams

Circles and Calligrams (Delbecq) by Benoît Delbecq on piano

Released on parisian label Rogue Art, 2016.
ILLEGAL CROWNS
Mary Halvorson: guitar
Tomas Fujiwara: drums
Benoît Delbecq: piano, prepared piano
Taylor Ho Bynum: cornet, flugelhorn

We treasure the long-time collaborators who share the same commitment to the creative journey, and we thrill at meeting new partners who converse with the same hybridized and willfully corrupted musical vocabulary. A cooperative project like Illegal Crowns celebrates all of the above.
Illegal Crowns: a group both old and new, music accessible and experimental, a name revolutionary and royal. Four individuals and one ensemble, in the kind of harmony that needs no resolution. Taylor Ho Bynum, excerpt from the liner notes.

COLLE ET ACRYLIQUE (Delbecq) by Illegal Crowns (Halvorson, Ho Bynum, Delbecq, Fujiwara)

Part 2 of a 7-part work by Benoît Delbecq, commissioned by pianist Izumi Kimura and premiered at National Concert Hall in Dublin, Sept 05, 2012. Recorded at the Chelles Auditorium in may 2014. Izumi Kimura, piano. To be released on the album MUSIC ON PAPER on dStream early 2018.

SELF PORTRAITS IN CALLIGRAMS (Delbecq), PART 2 by Izumi Kimura, piano

To be released in 2018 on dStream as part of MUSIC ON PAPER , a Benoît Delbecq disc with recent written music projects. With the fabulous Lutoslawski Quartet from Poland (Anna Maria Staskiewicz plays violin on this) and the no less fabulous Miles Perkin on bass. Recorded at Auditorium de Chelles in May 2014.

A LARGE JOAN MITCHELL PAINTING AT THE MOMA (Delbecq) - Lutoslawski quartet and Miles Perkin

Released in 2011 on Songlines, the Vancouver-based label, the third album by these long-term collaborators François Houle on clarinets and Delbecq on piano.

BINOCULARS (Delbecq) François Houle and Benoît Delbecq

First track of Benoît Delbecq's new quartet album featuring Mark Turner, John Hébert and Gerald Cleaver. Out on Clean Feed at the end of March 2018. Copyright Benoît Delbecq - all rights etc as usual.

Benoît Delbecq 4 _ Spots On Stripes featuring Mark Turner, John Hébert and Gerald Cleaver

“Nu-Turn is the kind of disc you’ll play over and over again; if, that is, you have an ear for sonic adventure and unfettered imagination. It’s hard to develop a singular voice on the piano…But Delbecq’s conception is instantly recognizable for the way he blends Asian sonorities (most derived from Indonesian gamelan music) and rock-based rhythms with a melodic sense that draws equally from the jazz and classical avant-gardes. Often he’ll ‘prepare’ the piano to access an array of percussive timbres ranging from bell-like to clangorously metallic; he’ll then play a repeated left-hand pattern on those altered notes, all the while building elaborate sonic structures on the unmodified keys with his right. The ostinato lines give his music an intense, obsessive air, which is undermined by his melodic freedom; the effect is dreamlike and charged, qualities amplified to the extreme on Nu-Turn’s final track, ‘Into White’.” — Alexander Varty, The Georgia Straight

1 In Rainbows

First track of SPINNERET by Mandhira de Saram and Benoit Delbecq. Out on Confront on February 3, 2019. Release concert - free entrance - at Café Oto, London, Feb 03, 2019 at 7;30 pm. 

AVAILABLE VERY SOON ! Music by Mandhira de Saram and Benoit Delbecq (Sacem).

Recorded at Plushspace Paris in January 2017. Produced by Benoit Delbecq for Confront. 

Mandhira and Benoît met three years ago in Paris and soon discovered that they loved playing together. They recorded Spinneret in Paris a year later, over a day of quiet, meditative, and sustained sonic crafting, at mysterious distance from the animated music they are both usually drawn to in their own projects. Propelled by a spectacular sense of exploration in sound, time, and texture, together they weave a tapestry of sound which blurs the edges of where one instrument begins and the other ends. With Spinneret, these two internationnaly acclaimed players have fostered a new imaginary improvised folklore of slowness that's unique in many ways.

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False Widow

A solo track recorded live by Steve Argüelles at PlushSpace. Excerpt from the Benoît Delbecq MAD MACS solo project to be released on dStream. Photo by Lukasz Rajchert (@Jazztopad Festival 2018).

MADMACS An Appetizer

First track of HOPETOWN, an album featuring Claudia Solal and Benoît Delbecq on the parisian free minded label Rogue Art. Lyrics by Claudia. Music is unrehearsed, meaning these songs are improvised on the spot. That's what they do. Two handful of tracks were recorded at Plushspace/Bureau de Son, Paris, in 2018. Release date is january 18, 2020. Photo by Tatiana Chevalier.  Next concert at the Sons d'Hiver Festival, in Vincennes on January 18, 2020. Opening for Fred Frith ensemble.

01 - Claudia Solal, Benoit Delbecq on ROGUE ART - HOPETOWN - Inner Otherness

An excerpt from The Weight of Light, a new album by Benoît Delbecq alone at the piano. To be released on Pyroclastic Records (PR13) on Feb 12, 2021. Recorded at Studio de Meudon, FR march 12-13, 2020 - mixed by BeeDee@Bureau de Son Paris, mastered by Klaus Scheuermann at 4Ohm Berlin. All rights reserved as usual.

Anamorphoses

Multi award-winning Parisian pianist, composer and producer Benoit Delbecq figures among the prominent innovators of the international contemporary jazz scene who have build their own singular language in music. He has brought the soul of jazz to John Cage's prepared piano, when The New York Times depicts him as "a brilliant and unconventional French pianist" (Chinen). -- photo by Igor Juget. 
Benoit Delbecq is a founding member of Bureau de Son, a parisian non-profit and label (dStream) for new music.

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