Created by guitarist Eric Sempé and bass player
Marc Peillon, "Synopsis" become a reference in the
world of Jazz Fusion during the 1990s.
Four CDs have punctuated this long career: most recently in 1998, "Home", featuring the legendary U.S. saxophonist David Sanborn.
10 years later Eric Sempe gives new life to the group as the "Eric Sempe Synopsis Project".
Enriched with wonderful musicians and stars such as vocalist/drummer Felix Sabal-Lecco (eg Sade Salif Keita, Youssou N'Dour, Peter Gabriel ...), bassist Dominique Di Piazza (John McLaughlin ... etc.), saxophonist Neil Gerstenberg, pianist Claude Tedesco, and percussionist/vocalist Gerard Kurdjian, the "Eric Sempe Synopsis Project" is a shock sextet where the sounds of jazz mingle with an atmosphere of world music and lounge, and electronic sounds blend smoothly with ethnic influences.
In the tradition of the great jazz rock groups of the 70s & 80s, but with the sound and energy of the nascent twenty-first century, "Eric Sempe Synopsis Project" offers a music of balance between improvisation and composition, of strong collective yet intimate improvisation and rhythmic explosion - to take the listener on a genuinely exhilarating journey, both dense and sensual.
The communicative warmth with which musicians fuel this well-oiled machine wins over even the most reserved audiences; "Eric Sempe Synopsis Project" is one of the most promising Jazz Fusion outfits in Europe.
Four CDs have punctuated this long career: most recently in 1998, "Home", featuring the legendary U.S. saxophonist David Sanborn.
10 years later Eric Sempe gives new life to the group as the "Eric Sempe Synopsis Project".
Enriched with wonderful musicians and stars such as vocalist/drummer Felix Sabal-Lecco (eg Sade Salif Keita, Youssou N'Dour, Peter Gabriel ...), bassist Dominique Di Piazza (John McLaughlin ... etc.), saxophonist Neil Gerstenberg, pianist Claude Tedesco, and percussionist/vocalist Gerard Kurdjian, the "Eric Sempe Synopsis Project" is a shock sextet where the sounds of jazz mingle with an atmosphere of world music and lounge, and electronic sounds blend smoothly with ethnic influences.
In the tradition of the great jazz rock groups of the 70s & 80s, but with the sound and energy of the nascent twenty-first century, "Eric Sempe Synopsis Project" offers a music of balance between improvisation and composition, of strong collective yet intimate improvisation and rhythmic explosion - to take the listener on a genuinely exhilarating journey, both dense and sensual.
The communicative warmth with which musicians fuel this well-oiled machine wins over even the most reserved audiences; "Eric Sempe Synopsis Project" is one of the most promising Jazz Fusion outfits in Europe.