Quentin Rollet

 
Quentin Rollet (born 1974) started playing the alto saxophone at the age of 11 and the sopranino saxophone at 37. After a few years spent unlearning the teaching of the conservatory, he devoted himself solely to free improvisation. This led him to play on record or on stage with groups as varied as Nurse With Wound, Prohibition, The Red Krayola, Mendelson, David Grubbs, Herman Dune, Akosh S. Unit, Thierry Müller, Rubin Steiner, eRikm, Jac Berrocal, Andrew Liles, Bästard, Ulan Bator, Costes, Red, Melmac, Dragibus, Phoebe Killdeer & The Short Straws, Jérôme Lorichon, Charlie O, Dan-Charles Dahan, Zsolt Söres, Pal Toth, Jean-Noël Cognard, Jean-Pierre Barja, Rivkah, Benoît de Villeneuve...... He is a member of Pointe du Lac, and the co-founder of the labels Rectangle (with Noël Akchoté), reQords and Bisou Records.
 
Quentin Rollet - Espace en l\'espèce (CD)
Jean-Marc Foussat, Claude Parle, Quentin Rollet, Makoto Sato
Espace en l'espèce (CD)
2023
ReQords
New improvised quartet synthesizer / voice / accordion / saxophone / drums, recorded in concert in Paris then mixed / edited by Jean-Marc Foussat.
Quentin Rollet - A Fothermass Abominesque (CD)
Quentin Rollet, James Worse
A Fothermass Abominesque (CD)
2023
ReQords
Saxophones, voice, electronics and percussions, recorded remotely between France and Australia, with texts/poems by James Worse, and artwork by Steven Stapleton (Nurse With Wound).
Quentin Rollet - Le vieux fusible (CD)
Romain Perrot, Quentin Rollet
Le vieux fusible (CD)
2023
ReQords
The continuation of the sound adventures of the duo after "L'impatience des invisibles". A new studio album plus a second CD including the tracks released on vinyl by Mind Records, on mini-CD by Lenka Lente and with a live track in trio with Richard Franès (Pointe du Lac).
Quentin Rollet - Recorded Yesterday and on sale Today (CD)
Quentin Rollet, Eugene Chadbourne
Recorded Yesterday and on sale Today (CD)
2022
ReQords
A pair of contemporary music giants re-release a long-lost 2003 live recording, previously available only as a CD-R.
Quentin Rollet - Débordements (CD)
Quentin Rollet, Xavier Mussat
Débordements (CD)
2022
ReQords
Soundscapes, drones, disruptive aberrations, textures and perplexingly absorbing interactions between French guitarist, graphic and sound artist Xavier Mussat and saxophonist Quentin Rollet, performing live at Instants Chavires, in Montreuil, France, in 2020, for eight diverse and unusual improvisations.
Quentin Rollet - Q&A - The New Me (CD)
Quentin Rollet, Andrew Sharpley
Q&A – The New Me (CD)
2021
ReQords
An inspiring album that dissolves the boundary that too often separates live and studio, improvisation and composition.
Quentin Rollet - Shampanskoye (CD)
Alexei Borisov, Jérôme Lorichon, Olga Nosova, Quentin Rollet
Shampanskoye (CD)
2021
ReQords
An off-track, frenetic and exciting improvisation session bringing together musicians who have known each other for many years and are playing together for the first time.
Quentin Rollet - Vents (CD)
Denis Lavant, Thierry Müller, Quentin Rollet
Vents (CD)
2020
Bisou Records
Denis Lavant reads/says the poem Vents by Saint-John Perse (1946), accompanied by Quentin Rollet (saxophones) and Patrick Müller (electrosonic). With the participation of Romain Perrot (guitar).
Quentin Rollet - Mettent une ambiance de malade ! (CD)
Kim Giani, Quentin Rollet
Mettent une ambiance de malade ! (CD)
2020
ReQords
Quentin Rollet lays his mini tape synthesizer and saxophones on drum tracks recorded by Kim Giani in 2015, that is to say in the world before confinement. A humorous and energetic project, realized in a period of global boredom.
Quentin Rollet - L\'impatience des invisibles (CD)
Romain Perrot, Quentin Rollet
L'impatience des invisibles (CD)
2020
ReQords
First duo album with Quentin Rollet (saxophones, synthesizer, electronics) and Romain Perrot (keyboards, electronics, voice).
Quentin Rollet - La chanson des vieux époux (+ CD)
Pierre Loti, Quentin Rollet, Vomir
La chanson des vieux époux (+ CD)
2019
French edition
Lenka lente
A short story by Pierre Loti (1850-1923), which tells the irremediable separation of a couple of beggars who have lived together for a long time, illustrated by a sound piece by Quentin Rollet and Romain Perrot (Vomir).
Quentin Rollet - The Man Who Floated Away / The Closer You Are To The Center, The Further You Are From The Edge (vinyl LP)
Edward Ka-Spel, Steven Stapleton, Colin Potter, Quentin Rollet
The Man Who Floated Away / The Closer You Are To The Center, The Further You Are From The Edge (vinyl LP)
2018
Bisou Records
Two new musical encounters.
Quentin Rollet - The Man Who Floated Away / The Closer You Are To The Center, The Further You Are From The Edge (CD)
Edward Ka-Spel, Steven Stapleton, Colin Potter, Quentin Rollet
The Man Who Floated Away / The Closer You Are To The Center, The Further You Are From The Edge (CD)
2018
Bisou Records
Two new musical encounters.
Quentin Rollet - Entrée des Puys de grêle (CD)
Quentin Rollet, Jean-Marc Foussat, Christian Rollet
Entrée des Puys de grêle (CD)
2018
Bisou Records
Improvised trio featuring sound engineer and Synthi player Jean-Marc Foussat, and father and son Christian and Quentin Rollet. Free music with a wide dynamic range and wild acoustic and electronic spaces.
Quentin Rollet - On Your Body\'s Landscape (vinyl LP)
Quentin Rollet, Thierry Müller
On Your Body's Landscape (vinyl LP)
2017
Bisou Records
A very cinematic improvised instrumental session by Thierry Müller (Ilitch) and Quentin Rollet.
Quentin Rollet - Q.O. (vinyl 7\
Quentin Rollet, Charlie O.
Q.O. (vinyl 7")
1999
Rectangle
A sax/Hammond organ duet recorded at XtraLab, Paris, then edited at Can Studio, Weilerswist, by René Tinner. Strangely, digital noises were added during the transfer of the sound files and are now part of the abstract music of the duo.
Quentin Rollet - aka Doug (vinyl 7\
aka Doug (vinyl 7")
1998
Rectangle
sold out
Three tracks recorded in one day at the Studio des Variétés in Paris in 1994. First a kind of Aylmerian hymn in six saxophone layers (2 percussive, 2 high-pitched and 2 melodic), then a sax piece treated with a multitude of superimposed effects, then an improvisation on samples recorded previously in solo.
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