Quest of the Invisible
Album line-up
NAÏSSAM JALAL Flute, nay, vocals, composition
LEONARDO MONTANA Piano
CLAUDE TCHAMITCHIAN Double bass
Composed by Naïssam Jalal, Quest of the Invisible is at the crossroad of extra-western, traditional mystic musics and modal jazz. The silence has a central place and the rhythm always leads towards trance in a repetitive and hypnotic shape, sometimes the voice comes to help the other instruments to get in touch with the Invisible.
The album won the Victoires du Jazz 2019, the greatest jazz award in France.
Télérama « FFFF »
« Silence resounds in the muffled strokes and the invisible takes shape in the repetitive notes of the piano, the evanescent lyricism of the strings and the oriental reminiscences of the flutes. »
FIP Radio
« In the luminous double album Quest of the Invisible, the magic is there, the invisible becomes palpable, the trio lifts us from reverie to trance. »
Jazz Magazine ⭐⭐⭐⭐
« Naïssam Jalal opens the transparent door that leads to the space within by holding onto the immaterial thread of music. Eight pieces channeled by the pure breath of the flute and the nay, enveloped in celestial songs, traversed by hypnotic rhythms, with the almost supernatural complicity of Leonardo Montana, Claude Tchamitchian and Hamid Drake. This fifth album is his Love Supreme. »
Jazz News
« Indispensable »
France Musique
« A quest that oscillates between shadow and light, contemplation and trance, silence and music. Naïssam Jalal approaches the shores of spirituality with a totally invested quartet. »