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YOCHK'o SEFFER - Neffesh Music

It happened again!I was listening to this wonderful LP trying to write a review,but,i was so deeply "got into " this

music that words could not come out of my mind.Only pictures....Dark,nightmarish sometimes ,pictures.Seffer is a

saxophonist and clarinettist of Hungarian origin. He became well-known at the beginning of his career as a member of

Magma and Zao.This LP is the 2nd part of a work named Neffesh music(first one is Adama).Adama with half this LP was

reissued by Spalax records a few years back.Excellent complex compositions in the ZAO /MAGMA most experimental vein,with

dark ,evocative,sometimes oppressing feeling.Ethnic chanting and jazzy passages creating a unique sound!Just a

masterpiece!
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YOCHK’O SEFFER - Biography
French sax player and composer born in Miskolc (Hungary) on 10.7.1939, Seffer starts studying music at the age of 6. He

moves to France in 1956 where he studies reeds, piano and composition at the Conservatoire de Paris, mainly with Nadia

Boulanger but also as an occasional student with Olivier Messiaen. In 1959, at the Boheme, he performs with Mal Waldron,

the first one in an endless list of partners (amongst others, Charlie Rouse, Phil Woods, Steve Lacy, Ornette Coleman,

Pharoah Sanders, Dave Liebman, Kenny Barron, Joachim Kühn, Daniel Humair, Henri Texier)… In 1969 he creates Perception

together with Siefried Kessler, Didier Levallet and drummer Jean-My Truong. The following year, he appears in Magma's

line up. In 1973, he associates with pianist François "Faton" Cahen to create ZAO. In 1976, he initiates Neffesh Music, a

musical ensemble including jazz improvisers and solists from Pierre Boulez' Ensemble Intercontemporain. Between 1983 and

1985, Jean-François Jenny-Clark, Kessler, Michel Godard and drummer Peter Gritz will be part of Chromophonie, a big band

that will be followed by a saxophone septet (1986). In 1988, he adopts a quartet formula (with Kessler, François Méchali

and Gritz) that plays Monk's compositions; that first tribute will be followed by another tribute, to Coltrane this time

and with eighteen musicians. He is also a painter and a sculptor and the father of cellist Debora Seffer.
Coloured spots, smelting masses, nuances and violent patchworks, he plays music as he paints and sculpts, putting

together the dancing lyrism of his compatriot and fellow musician Bartok, the colatranian fire and the sense of evidence

of Monk, connecting all these various elements as a multi-instrumentist virtuoso(from soprano to bass saxophone) led by

an inexhaustible passion.

1 01 - Gyere 6min
2 02 - Giltha 7min, 16sec
3 03 - Irgalom 7min, 33sec
4 04 - Kecse 7min, 2sec
5 05 - Hangulat 8min, 30sec
6 06 - Gorah 5min, 49sec
7 07 - Koltemeny 7min, 18sec
8 08 - Fiok-7 6min, 11sec

Yochk'o SEFFER always created varied and interesting works during his long of career, be it with MAGMA, ZAO, NEFFESH

MUSIC, his teammate François "FATON" CAHEN or all alone. In each of his records, the French saxophone-player tries to pay

tribute to his Hungarian roots, with jazz-rock music close to ZAO, but with free tendencies. "Chromophonie" compiles two

volumes, originally released in 1981 and 1982, with the notable support of Hungarian violinist Lajos HORVATH and the

QUATUOR MARGAND. "Magyar Etno" unites popular music from Hungary with free and dissonant jazz. "Yog I - Pitchipoy" (1997)

keeps on carrying NEFFESH MUSIC's spirit, as flaming as ever. The development of complex and structured themes are linked

with frenetic saxophone parts, blended with other instruments. It can be described as the crossing point between works

like "Ghigoul" or "Chromophonie". "Yog II - Sefira" (1998) follows the same path with an equal talent: Thierry MAILLARD,

Dominique BERTRAM and Sylvain MILLER are here as well. "My Old Roots" is a collection of pieces recorded between 1976 and

1980. Some of them should have been included in the Musea reissue of "Chromophonie", but were dropped because of

technical problems. So, here they are today ! Some others had been composed in the year 1976 with NEFFESH MUSIC. Let's

also note that many of the compositions were never released on CD, especially an unreleased track recorded in 2005 with

violin player Lajos HORVATH. So, here's an excellent introduction to the lively, inventive and colourful music of Yochk'o

SEFFER. Just brilliant

Najlepsza płyta Seffera. Muzyka pełna polotu, a jednocześnie zaskakująco przystępna. Arcydzieło.