label musivi

Live music. Literally.

The record label Musivi was born out of pure necessity, to do the job hourself, produce your own music.
In 1988, François Cotinaud set up the association Jazz Bank and following this, he became his own producer. He Had no long term projects nor a commercial strategy, but each C.D. was carefully looked after all the way down the production line, from the quality of the recording, via the cover design, the individual respect for each musician's rights to the publicity campaign.

Ten years on, François Cotinaud is seriously considering expanding his record label to enable his friends to record, and he intends to produce C.D's on a more regular basis.
He has three goals to meet:

1- First of all, to produce artists who take improvisation seriously, who work at it, or write to provide a solid base for improvisation, or use Soundpainting, like Klangfarben ensemble, like Luc Rebelles and Marc Stutz-Boukouya (J'oZZ Quartet), Geoffroy De Masure (TRIBU), or Pascal Brechet.

2- Secondly, to study the possibilities, the links between improvised music and litterature, poems, like with Text-Up Ensemble ("François Cotinaud fait son Raymond Queneau" and Pascale Labbé setting Queneau's poems to improvised music and vocals, or "Rimbaud et son double"), with traditional music as is the case in "Yo m'enamori", 14 jewish-spanish songs thinked with Sylvie Cohen, or with Carole Hémard, and contemporary music techniques, as is the case in "Loco solo", which is based upon a piece by Luciano Berio, or, with "Pascal Gallois conducts ICE" on Pierre Boulez's master pieces.

3- Finally, he would like to collaborate with talented graphic designers (Olivier Guichard, Isabelle Servois, Valentine Hébert, Catherine Louis), painters (Patrick Geffroy), photographers or movy makers (Mathilde Morières for Rimbaud's movy - DVD, Patrick Morel for Klangfarben's movy - DVD).


Pascal Gallois conducts International Contemporary Ensemble	œuvres de Pierre Boulez (1925-2016) "Le marteau sans maître" Soliste : Katalin Karolyi "Eclat" "Dialogue de l'ombre double" Soliste : Pascal Gallois
Pierre Boulez 2016 Musivi MJB 021 CD	Distribution exclusive : Stradivarius

	Ensemble Luxus Pascale Labbé voice, compositions François Cotinaud saxophone tenor, clarinet, compositions Jérôme Lefebvre guitar, compositions
L'Orphée de Rilke 2016 Musivi MJB 020 CD	distributed by Musea Allumés du jazz website

	Algèbre François Cotinaud saxophone tenor, clarinet, compositions Daniel Beaussier saxophone alto, bass clarinet, oboe, english horn Pierre Durand guitar Guests : Bruno Chevillon doublebasse François Merville drums Denis Charolles drums
Topologie d'un manège 2013 Musivi MJB 019 CD Distributed by Musea	distributed by Musea Allumés du jazz website

KLANGFARBEN SOUNPAINTING ENSEMBLE	François Cotinaud soundpainter, compositions Valentine Quintin voice Françoise Purnode actor (+ Maxim Nourissat actor) Julie Salgues, Marie-Laure Caradec, Delphine Bachacou dance Deborah Walker cello Yves Robert trombone Andrew Crocker trompet, cornet Luis Vina saxophone tenor, bass clarinet Emmanuelle Somer oboe, english horn, bass clarinet Florent Thiant accordéon François Choiselat vibraphone Philippe Cornus percussions Monologue de Schoenberg Variations sur une collection de timbres CD 64' + DVD 30' ( documentary film by Patrick Morel) Cover design by Stéphane Berland. website of Ayler Records
Monologue de Schoenberg 2012 Label Ayler Records référence : AYLCD/DVD-001 (Musivi MJB 017-18 CD-DVD)	distributed by Orkhêstra International

	Carole Hémard (voice) Cover design by Isabelle Servois
La Voix à 360 degrés 2006 Ref : Musivi MJB 016 CD	Allumés du jazz website

Rimbaud et son double (DOUBLE CD + DVD)	CD1 "RIMBAUD ET M.A.O." François Cotinaud (soprano and tenor saxophones, clarinet, compositions, voice) Pierre Charpy (percussions, electroacoustics) CD2 "PARADE SAUVAGE" Ensemble Text'up Pascale Labbé (voice) François Cotinaud (soprano and tenor saxophones, clarinet, compositions, voice) François Choiselat (trombone) Jérôme Lefebvre (guitar) Sylvain Lemêtre (percussions) + Film DVD (written by Mathilde Morières) + clip by Olivier Guichard
RIMBAUD ET SON DOUBLE 2006 Ref : Musivi MJB 012-13-14 CD

	Pascal Brechet (guitar) Jean-Luc Ponthieux (double bass) Manuel Denizet (drums) Cover design by Olivier Guichard
TRIO BRECHET/PONTHIEUX/DENIZET "Standard" 2004 Ref : Musivi MJB 011 CD	Allumés du jazz website

	Ensemble Text'up Pascale Labbé (voice) François Cotinaud (soprano and tenor saxophones, clarinet, compositions, voice) François Choiselat (trombone) Jérôme Lefebvre (guitar) Sylvain Lemêtre (percussions) + Serge Adam (trumpet) guest Cover design by Olivier Guichard
TEXT-UP "François Cotinaud fait son Raymond Queneau" 2002 Ref : Musivi MJB 010 CD

	"TRIBU" Geoffroy De Masure (trombone, compositions) Jean Luc Lehr (bass guitar) Chander Sardjoe (drums) Bo Van Der Werf ( barytone saxophone) + Pierre Van Dormael (guitar) guest Cover design by Olivier Guichard
Tribu 2001 Ref : Musivi MJB 009 CD	Allumés du jazz website

	Jewish-spanish songs François Cotinaud (soprano and tenor saxophone) Sylvie Cohen (piano) Cover design by Olivier Guichard
Yo M'enamori 1999 Ref : Musivi MJB 008 CD	Allumés du jazz website

	Luc Rebelles (saxophones, compositions) Paul Rogers (bass) Marc Stutz-Boukouya (trombone, compositions) Ray Kaczynski (drums)
SUITE CARNAVALESQUE 1999 group J'ozz Ref : Musivi MJB 007 CD	Allumés du jazz website

	François Cotinaud (soprano and tenor saxophones, compositions, voice) painting by Patrick Geffroy Cover design by Olivier Guichard
Loco Solo 1998 Improvisations around Sequenza IX of Luciano Berio. Solo, texts by R.Queneau, C.Baudelaire, F.Cotinaud. Ref : Musivi MJB 006 CD	Allumés du jazz website

	Pablo Nemirovsky (bandoneon, flute, compositions) François Cotinaud (soprano and tenor saxophones) Sergio Gruz (piano) Roland Molinier (bass, double bass) Shamal Maitra (percussions)
Calcuttango 1994 Tierra del Fuego Ref : Musivi MJB 005 CD/ Tangram 852 005

	Ramón López (drums) François Cotinaud (soprano and tenor saxophones)
Opéra 1993 17 contemporary improvisations Ref : Musivi MJB 004 CD	Allumés du jazz website

	François Cotinaud (soprano and tenor saxophones) Glenn Ferris (trombone) Enrico Rava (trumpet) Heri Paredes (piano) Thierry Colson (double bass) Ramón López (drums) Le Monde de la Musique ****
Pyramides 1992 François Cotinaud Sextet Ref : Musivi MJB 003 CD	Allumés du jazz website

	François Cotinaud (soprano and tenor saxophones) Heri Paredes (piano) Thierry Colson (double bass) Ramón López (drums)
Princesse 1990 Quartet Ref : Musivi MJB 002 CD	Allumés du jazz website