Line Kruse

Sometimes it only takes a little to travel, to immerse yourself for a moment in some memory. And it is on the Danish ratings of his childhood that Line Kruse found the source of his new album bånd. Line Kruse has always invited us on her travels, and her five previous albums draw a precise map of her encounters and discoveries in the territories of Afro-Latin jazz.

The brilliant Invitation, with the Trio Lopez Nussa and Dayme Arocena, revisited Prokofiev and the best of Cuban jazz. With Hidden Stone, she crossed the bow with a full big band, under a heavy fire of Afro-Peruvian percussion.

More limited in her transport (pandemic obliges) but not in her inspiration, Line Kruse has summoned her longtime friends, the septet which accompanies her on her tours in Scandinavia. They are not unknown on the Danish scene, and the line-up of this sixth album is almost all-star.

But it wasn't so much for their respective CVs as for their friendships that the seven came together.

"We've known each other for a long time, and I think that shows in the way we play together. There is great joy in being together, it's always very relaxed, and I think that's even more important in the period we're going through. I called this record bånd, which means "link" in Danish, in homage to everything that binds us, to others, to our countries of origin and of adoption, to our cultures which are enriched by our met. »

It is also a very dense selection of musical images and very personal memories for the violinist.

“We even shot a clip in the house of my childhood, by the sea. I had the memory of this horizon and the light which underlines all the reliefs. This is perhaps what gave me a taste for contrasts and for music that is always moving and full of sensations, like facing the sea” With as tutelary figure, the composer and violinist Carl Nielsen, very popular in Denmark, of which Line Kruse made two adaptations. “These are two very beautiful melodies that I have always wanted to cover. We feel in Nielsen a taste for nature, simple things, despite the sophistication of his approach. »

Music at the crossroads of musical genres, kaleidoscope music that invites you to travel, Line Kruse's new album will soon reveal all its richness on tour in France and Scandinavia.