Tarkovsky Quartet Nuit blanche, ECM Records

François Couturier Tarkovsky Quartet Nuit blanche François Couturier: piano Anja Lechner: violoncello JeanMarc Larché: soprano saxophone JeanLouis Matinier: accordion +++++ CD, Download, Streaming: Ingmar Bergman once said of Andrey Tarkovsky, He moves with such naturalness in the room of dreams, and the FrenchGerman quartet named after the great Russian filmmaker has developed an associative dreamlanguage of its own. For leader and pianist François Couturier the silence and slowness of Tarkovsky are closely related to an ECM aesthetic further developed on the groups third album Nuit blanche, produced by Manfred Eicher in Lugano in April 2016. Here pieces variously composed by François Couturier, or created in the moment by Couturier, cellist Anja Lecher, saxophonist JeanMarc Larché and accordionist JeanLouis Matinier, explore the texture of dreams and memory and continue to make oblique reference to T