the cry of a dove announcing rain

December 2023

Duet with Eddie Prévost - percussion Recorded live at Cafe Oto October 2022 and January 2023

"Musically and atmospherically a total work or art. Ambient music at the height of (seasonal) time" FreiStil Magazin #111

"The piano-percussion album seems to be another successful reincarnation of the AMM idea (in both sets, the wonderful, drone like, muted and very minimalistic passages stand out)" spontaneousmusictribune.blogspot.com

"A profound dialogue moving freely and meaningfully through a variety of textures. This is an excellent introduction to Marjolaine Charbin, a pianist likely to become a significant presence in improvised music" freejazzblog.com

"The length of the pieces flows effortlessly, the material being so mastered and the flow being in constant evolution, metamorphosed through heterogeneous temporalities." orynx-improvandsounds.blogspot.com

https://matchlessrecordings.com/music/cry-dove-announcing-rain

The Art of Noticing

July 2023

Recorded live in Cafe Oto, 16th of July 2022 "Making a journey to a Bright Nowhere" series- John Butcher-tenor and soprano saxophones Marjolaine Charbin-piano Ute Kanngiesser-cello Eddie Prévost-percussion

10 best albums of the year 2023 - New York City jazz review

"The communication between musicians is human-reaffirming, generous while retaining individuality but only as assertive as called for by the moment". B.Olewnick

https://matchlessrecordings.com/music/art-noticing

Kryscraft

December 2011

Marjolaine Charbin-piano & Frans Van Isacker-alto saxophone. Creative source recordings 196cd. Recorded at Studio Odeon, Brussels, October 2009.

"Together, Frans Van isacker and Marjolaine Charbin perform extremely thin free improvisation - microsonic if you will. Strongly reminiscent of the onkyo movement or the work of French group Hubbub. Nice tension in the music, and a few unique extended techniques."
François Couture, Monsieur Délire

"It's often hard to tell, without knowing beforehand, that what we are listening to are two very ordinary western instruments. No mention is made in the liner notes about electronics, and I'm assuming that there aren't any, and yet... (…) There is a lot of interaction between the sounds, albeit mostly on a very subtle level. It does sometimes "cook", but never threatens to boil over."
Jeph Jerman, The Squid’s Ear

"The CD is not overly radical, yet for sure demonstrates the musicians’ finely tuned ears as far as the understated exploration of the character of an instrument is concerned.  (…) In essence, this is a record whose misleading caginess reveals instead a number of admirable insights. The fact that the music appears honest, discreetly stylish in a way and absolutely worthy of a further deepening of some of its aspects doesn’t hurt, either."
Massimo Rici, Touching Extremes

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Glowing in Light and Shade

Visa Kuoppala-electronics, Grundik Kasyansky-feedback synthesiser, Marjolaine Charbin-piano. Recorded live at Goldsmiths University, London, 2015.

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Sharp Edges

Olivier Toulemonde-acoustic objects and Marjolaine Charbin-piano, objects and contact microphones. Recorded live at Sound Disobedience Festival, Ljubljana, 2013.

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