https://sluchaj.bandcamp.com/album/cardinal-point

All music by Bernard Santacruz (SACEM) and Michael Zerang (Munimulamusic/ASCAP)
except 3 by M. Zerang, 5 & 7 by B. Santacruz
Recorded on October 14th 2019 at Studio La Buissonne by Gérad de Haro

Muzycy:
Bernard Santacruz: bass
Michael Zerang: drums

"Są to konfrontacje pomiędzy formami muzycznymi, pomiędzy muzykami, którzy stworzyli, tworzą i będą tworzyć jazz. Nie w sensie rywalizacji czy konfliktu, ale w sensie dodawania różnic, wzbogacania się poprzez kontakt z innością i nowością.[...]

Michael Zerang i Bernard Santacruz spotkali się po raz pierwszy na początku XXI wieku w ramach tria Vega [...]

Siłą tego duetu jest słuchanie drugiego; a słuchanie to nie szkodzi ekspresyjności, wręcz przeciwnie, jest całkowicie na jej usługach.[...]

O wiele więcej niż suma dwóch wspaniałych muzyków, rodzi się prawdziwy duet; iw tym przypadku jeden plus jeden to znacznie więcej niż dwa!"


They are the confrontations, between musical forms, between musicians, that have made, are making and will make jazz. Not in the sense of rivalry or conflict, but in the sense of the addition of differences, of enrichment through contact with otherness and novelty. Jazz was thus forged through encounters; it turns out that both are looking for them, Bernard Santacruz, born in Algiers and living in the south of France, as well as Michael Zerang, whose parents, Assyrian, left Iraq and settled in Chicago. They have multiplied experiences over their rich respective journeys, notably towards Europe for the Chicagoan and the United States for the French, each time expanding their musical fields.
Michael Zerang and Bernard Santacruz met for the first time in the early 2000s within the trio Vega, Jeff Parker completing the group, which recorded a great album for Gérard Terronès ("Vega", Marge 30). A little less than fifteen years later, it will be ‘The Bridge’ who will make them meet again, in quintet this time, with Joëlle Léandre, Douglas Ewart and Jean-Luc Cappozzo ("Sonic Communion", The Bridge Sessions, TBS 01); this already gives a little idea of the extent of their musical fields.
We find them here in a more intimate form. Even if double basses a.......
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