1. What’s your biggest pleasure in improvised music?

   The depth of the exchanges in actual time, like a deep and enriching
   dialogue, a dialog between associates the place there’s little have to
   converse to know one another, the simplicity of the conferences, interactions
   nursed with benevolence.

2. What high quality do you most admire within the musicians you carry out with?

   Respect for listening to the silence which is a deep telepathy and a standard
   inaudible tempo. This silence unites us within the current time.

3. Which historic musician/composer do you admire probably the most?

   Milford Graves, Bartók, Ligeti, John Coltrane… There are a lot of and most of
   them are jazz or classical composers. If I needed to choose only one it might be
   John Coltrane.

4. Should you may resurrect a musician to carry out with, who wouldn’t it be?

   I’ve a whole lot of love for the African affect and knowledge of Milford Graves
   and the photo voltaic vitality of Elvin Jones… Each have introduced me lots.

5. What would you continue to wish to obtain musically in your life?

   Discover a jazz trio or quartet which might be open to improvisation as a substitute of
   reproducing requirements performed ten thousand instances.

6. Are you curious about in style music and – if sure – what
   music/artist do you significantly like?

   No, I’ve to confess. A very long time in the past I performed in punk bands and liked The
   Stooges, MC5 however these days are gone.

7. Should you may change one factor about your self, what wouldn’t it be?

   I’d like to have the likelihood to journey extra with my music.

8. Which of your albums are you most happy with?

   Flyin Sufi with Boris Blanchet on sax and Requirements combustion with
   Daunik Lazro and Benjamin Duboc.

9. As soon as an album of yours is launched, do you continue to hearken to it? And
   how typically?

   I don’t hearken to myself very a lot. The subsequent venture is all the time the one I’m
   trying ahead to.

10. Which album(s) (from any musician) have you ever listened to probably the most in
    your life?

    Coltrane’s A Love Supreme and Lux aeterna by Ligeti.

11. What are you listening to at the second?

    Miles Davis’ Nefertiti and Milford Graves’ Tales.

12. What artists outdoors music evokes you?

    David Lynch is a superior instance, generally an inspiration in addition to the
    disquieting strangeness of actuality… I like “The Blair Witch venture” movie,
    psychological thrillers the place all the pieces is prompt and never proven. The
    darkish work of Caravaggio, the chiaroscuro de Georges de La
    tour, J.M.W. Turner’ fireplace… And poets equivalent to Rimbaud, Michel X Côté, Serge
    Pey.

Critiques with Mathieu Bec on the Free Jazz Weblog:

Additionally, Mathieu Bec will probably be performing in duet with Daunik Lazro at Domaine de Montbarri (France), on Sunday, June 23, for a tribute to John Coltrane and others.