Felsenmeer

About

Felsenmeer is a quartet whose musical language draws on a wide range of influences spanning classical, contemporary and jazz music. Within this framework, the group develops a repertoire in which carefully shaped composition and collective improvisation remain in constant dialogue, giving rise to music that feels both finely structured and vividly alive. Fresh from being named among the Jazz igration #12 laureates, the quartet is already emerging as one of the most distinctive new voices on the French creative music scene. The name Felsenmeer, literally “sea of rocks,” refers to a geological formation of chaotic reliefs — an image that runs through the quartet’s debut release, Reliefs. Reliefs traces steep ascents and sudden drops, ground that shifts underfoot, openings carved by wind, moments of pure suspension before the fall. Music that unfolds like a path through unfamiliar terrain: disorienting, airy, and alive to every change of contour. Joséphine Besançon: clarinets, vocals, composition Charles Paillet: double bass, vocals Fanny Bouteiller: double bass, vocals Matheo Ciesla: drums, vocals