Léon Phal - Dust to Stars (2021)

A little more than a year after his first album Canto Bello, which revealed him as part of the RéZZo Focal Jazz in Vienne, Léon Phal strikes a second card which reveals his musical versatility and finesse.
With his close band in traditional quintet format (tenor, trumpet, Rhodes, double bass, drums), the tenor saxophonist recorded in Lausanne an irresistible dancefloor jazz proposition.
Admittedly, the idea is foamed by the London generation, but our Franco-Swiss prove that their trademark - namely the light and the surgical precision of the saxophone duo - trumpet (Léon Phal - Zacharie Ksyk), the hovering of the keyboards ( Gauthier Toux), the devastating groove of the double bass - drums tandem (Rémi Bouyssière - Arthur Alard) - can offer intensely solar house music ("Make it Bright") as well as powerfully dreamlike drum'n'bass ("All I ') ve Got ”).
Under the leadership of sound engineer Benoît Corboz (who accompanies Erik Truffaz), the textures of this album entitled Dust To Stars are worked on with little onion.