Charneux – Leleux – Puma Trio will unveil “Cinquième saison”, their new album, on its release, March 07, 2025, on homerecords.be / L’Autre Distribution. This opus will be presented on Thursday, April 10 2025, on the stage of 360 Paris Music Factory during an exceptional launch concert.
➡ The single “Juin en novembre” will be released soon on all platforms.⬅
Aurélie Charneux is a clarinettist. Classically trained, she is as much a creator as a performer, and soon turns her attention to improvisation and composition. Oriental music and swing have had a major influence on her career. She explores and mixes different languages. She founded the group Klezmic Zirkus (with whom she played for ten years in Belgium, France, Germany and Switzerland) and the quintet Mamaliga Orkestar. The trio Charneux – Leleux – Puma is her latest project. Cinquième saison, his sixth album for homerecords.be, is undoubtedly his most personal.
The trio is composed of:
Aurélie Charneux: compositions, clarinets
Simon Leleux: percussion
Nicolas Puma: double bass
Guest musicians: Quatuor Prisma (tracks 2, 5, 7, 9) :
Allison Trésor (first violin), Julien Gillain (second violin), Maxime Devynck (viola) and Eugénie
Defraigne (cello).
There exists an intercontinental music from a country that doesn’t exist, a place where sounds can cross paths and converse freely, without baggage or passport. As warm as the snowdrifts of the Taiga, and cooler than the torpor of the sub-Saharan heat…
Climate change, the drifting of continents, forced migrations—today’s world is shaking up our reference points… The work presented here explores and reclaims various musical traditions, whether close or distant, and aims to create a sound with a fluid identity.
Here, an aboriginal rhythm evokes classical chamber music; there, modes from both sides of the Mediterranean meet for the first time…
It’s the joy and risk of erasing boundaries. “There are no more seasons,” or perhaps a fifth season, one that defies conventions. Moments of improvisation, sometimes bordering on trance, bring us with elegance to both vigor and intimacy.
An equilateral trio where Simon Leleux (a specialist of the doholla and darbuka), double bassist Nicolas Puma, a versatile and chameleon-like musician, and the generous breath of clarinetist Aurélie Charneux, who also composes most of the material, engage in a dynamic dialogue. The Prisma Quartet adds a string color to several tracks on the album.