Previous Albums of Healing Unit
With this third album, Healing Unit continues to offer us its energetic and generous music made of communicative joy and powerful and invocative melodies.
Repeat Please! takes the most liberating and expressive free expression to the roots of blues and South African fanfares, while giving echoes of Shepp, Dolphy, Cecyl Taylor and the Art Ensemble of Chicago.
But it is first of all a rare creation, an exhilarating vitality that feeds on the tensions between balance and explosion, between contemplation and expressive fury, between modernity and heritage, and shares the emancipatory energies of Jazz and the Creative Music.
New Album of Healing Unit Now Released:
REPEAT PLEASE!
The Healing Unit are one of the more impressive jazz groups I’ve heard in recent memory." ---- Bruce Lee Gallanter, DMG
« You will also find here, and with a voluptuous pleasure, what gives this pianist's music its spice : a sense of urgency, energy, freedom, generosity. His music is never recondite or self-absorbed ; it is grounded in a powerful beat and an always accurate melodic research. » ---- Citizen Jazz
« Such a subtle composition, bursting with sincerity and originality, has given birth to those collective (utterly expressionist) and individual (boldly impressionist) expressions. » ---- JazzNews
"a powerful quintet from the French scene, and one with a great ear for unified formations in modern jazz!"
Dustygroove, Chicago
“Healing Unit é um antidoto eficaz contra o narcoléptico jazz tradicionalista.” ---- Time Out Lisboa/Porto
By Fusing dreams and shouts, fury and mystery, Healing Unit takes root in the long history of Jazz, Blues, Free Jazz and Creative music.
The powerful music leaded by the pianist and percussionnist Paul wacrenier is strongly influenced by the creations of musicians like Eric Dolphy, andrew Hill, Steve Lacy, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Don Cherry...
The band takes up this strong identity, melting new and ancient forms, written materials and free improvisations, powerful melodies and burning swing.
Healing Unit offers both this generous music and its philosophy, defends a form of modernity beyond fashion and gives its respectful contribution to the field of creative music.
Marco Quaresimin: Contrebasse ; Benoist Raffin: batterie ; Xavier Bornens: trompette ; Arnaud Sacase: saxophone ; Paul Wacrenier : Piano, Vibraphone, composition
« You will also find here, and with a voluptuous pleasure, what gives this pianist's music its spice : a sense of urgency, energy, freedom, generosity. His music is never recondite or self-absorbed ; it is grounded in a powerful beat and an always accurate melodic research. »
Citizen Jazz Julien Aunos
"A positive energy, a creative musical tradition, we say yes to this collective lead by generosity." Culturejazz, France
"...heard with delight, Improjazz had no choice but support that record"
Impro Jazz, France
"a powerful quintet from the French scene, and one with a great ear for unified formations in modern jazz!" Dustygroove, Chicago
Messing Around
Nouvel Album de Healing Unit
+ Sylvaine Hélary (Le Petit Label)
« Such a subtle composition, bursting with sincerity and originality, has given birth to those collective (utterly expressionist) and individual (boldly impressionist) expressions. »
JazzNews Bruno Guermonprez
Music to run and shout
Hôte marge 09
Futura / Marge records)
"... a music full of controlled tension, pulled by a rhythm section with an unquestionable drive" Jazzman, France
"An unconventionnal and creative music that seduces the listener without showing off. " JazzaParis
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Paul Wacrenier
Pianist, percussionist, composer
