Sylvain Rifflet likes to explore incredible territories and take side roads. For this new sax-synths-drums trio, he joins forces with two indie pop figures trained in jazz, Bettina Kee (Ornette) and Vincent Taeger (Tiger Tigre, Le Sacre du Tympan). The phantasmagorical landscapes of the synths amplify the hypnotic and swirling playing of the saxophonist-clarinetist, and everything is carried by Taeger's incredible grooves. Jazz with a pop energy for the body and the mind.

Biography
French saxophonist, clarinetist and composer Sylvain Rifflet is a unique musician among the European jazz scene. Building an unlikely bridge between his hero Stan Getz and the minimalism influence of the likes of Philip Glass or Steve Reich, his music is always daring, conceptual yet affordable and rewarding. Shaping sounds, changing directions, you never get bored with Sylvain Rifflet

Saxophonist, Clarinettist and French composer, graduated from the Conservatoire de Paris, Sylvain Rifflet is the winner of the competition of La Defense and has received several awards including a "victoire du jazz" and a "Django d’or".

He has performed or recorded with many musicians, including some of the "must-see" performers on the European scene (Henri Texier, Paolo Fresu, Louis Sclavis, Aldo Romano, Michel Portal, Kenny Wheeler, Riccardo Del Fra ...) but also alongside American musicians such as Joey Baron, Jon Irabagon, Jon Hollenbeck, or Jim Black ...

Spearheading the young generation of jazz musicians from the first decade of the 21st century, he has collaborated with those who are today on the front of the European "new scene": Verneri Pohjola, Airelle Besson, Thomas de Pourquery, Alban Darche, Benjamin Flament, Pascal Schumacher, Rembrandt Freirichs, Florian Weber, Eve Risser, Sébastien Boisseau, Henning Sieverts and Fred Pallem ...  

Noticed as a composer in 2011 after the publication of "Alphabet" he subsequently published two albums on behalf of the Jazz Village label: "Perpetual Motion - a celebration of Moondog" in 2014 and "Mechanics" in 2015. In 2016 he releases “Refocus” his first album for the historical label Verve.

His two previous albums, “Troubadours” and “Aux anges” have been produced and released under his own label Magriff.

He has been a resident of the following structures Jazz au fil de l'Oise, Festival Banlieues Bleues, national scene of Alençon, Conservatoire de Besançon, Festival Like a jazz Machine, (Luxembourg.) and is currently associated artist of national scene of Quimper.

Quoting Stan Getz as his main saxophonist influence, the composer gladly draws in the field of American repetitive and minimalist music to develop a writing mixing improvisation, repetition, rupture, "bruitism" and even sometimes trance