Souffles

Souffles ('Breaths') is the 10th album from award-winning French flautist and composer Naissam Jalal. Written as an intimate and inspired dialogue between wind-instrument players, it features Naissam in a series of duets with eight prominent figures in jazz and improvised music, including Archie Shepp, Yom, Sylvain Rifflet, Thomas de Pourquery, Louis Sclavis, and Emile Parisien. Blending her own breath with these exceptional wind instrumentalists, Naissam has created eight vibrant duos. Several years ago, says Naissam, "I realised that I would probably never play with these fellow wind-instrument players who touch me in their musical expression but whom I have been rubbing shoulders with at jazz festivals for years. I realised that there would probably never be an opportunity to blend our sounds and our breaths unless I imagined it and provoked