Sonnerie by Dadèf Quartet

Dadèf Quartet follows the musical path of violinist Raphaël Sibertin-Blanc. His music is carried by the wind of freedom of improvised music and the energy of amplified music. At all times it remains intimately connected to the roots of todays world. This plurality abounding and immutable, leads the listener into the deepest roots of traditional oriental and Asian Minor music.

"Labyrinth" was he first album of the Dadèf Quartet with its music traveling from the shores of the Black Sea to the Greek islands, "Sonnerie", the eponymous name of the central piece on their new album, seeks to continue this path. Enriched by drawing again and again from these traditional musics and giving a greater place to the kemençe in the compositions. Purified by a touch of minimalist music, the repetitive melodies and rythms take the listener on a journey to the fertile land of freed musical imagiantion from wich you don’t wish to return.

Dadèf Quartet brings together the great complicity of the double bass and the drums formed by Guillaume Gendre and Carsten Weinmann, the warmth of Simon Charrier's clarinet sound and Raphaël Sibertin-Blanc's violin and kemençe, a stringed instrument that has remained unchanged for a millennium.