Actualités
★ NEW ALBUM "Passe Montagne"★ Bedmakers traveled to the legendary La Buissonne studio in the South of France to create a third opus, creating new links between revisited old folk songs, original compositions and freely improvised chamber music. Released January 31th 2025 on Mr Morezon's label.
Discography
Passe-Montagne
Bedmakers - Passe-Montagne
January 2025
Mr Morezon 038
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Live in Berlin
Bedmakers - Tribute to an Imaginary Folk Band
March 2021
Jazzdor series
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Tribute to an Imaginary Folk Band
april/june 2018
Mr Morezon 017
In co-production with Babel Label
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Line-up
Robin Fincker : tenor saxophone, clarinet
Mathieu Werchowski : violin
Dave Kane : double bass
Fabien Duscombs : drums
Press review
POINTBREAK
Together, the Bedmakers make their free-folk-jazz dance on quicksands and stretch their folklore to its limits. They let the
themes and melodies emerge when the quartet demands it. They take care of the popular and the elegant, revealing little epiphanies of quarter tones, exciting sound shifts, ancient clarity, and new skin, too.
Guillaume Malvoisin, POINTBREAK, 2025
UK Jazz News
What Bedmakers do is to take fragments of folk tunes, and melodies that might once have been folk tunes. They interweave strange sounds and free improvisation into the melodies, and they turn them inside out in a unique way (…) The result is a fascinating and intriguing album.
Peter Slavid, UK Jazz News, 2025
JAZZ MAGAZINE
Bedmakers presents a project as singular as it is personal, seizing fragments of melodies that have emerged from the mists of time and transforming them into the living, evanescent material of their improvisations […] The four adventurers of Bedmakers traverse imaginary territories in this instant and timeless music, plunging deep into their roots in a kind of universal collective unconscious. Powerfully material in its structures and spiritual in its connection to memory and tradition, the music
of Bedmakers sounds very contemporary.
Stéphane Ollivier, JAZZ MAGAZINE, 2021
JAZZ WORD
Looking for the perfect Jazz-Impov band consisting of a quartet of French nationals whose repertoire is exclusively Anglo-Saxon folk music? Well look no further than Bedmakers.
Expressive throughout with tropes stretching from a capella arabesques and double-tonguing from the saxophonist to triple stopping violin runs and percussion gallops, Bedmakers prove that these simple melodies can be reconstituted without any lose of groove or passion. Without losing an iota of sophistication in their interpretations, the quartet defines itself as a jubilant party band for any century.
Ken Waxman, Jazz Word, august 2018
LE MONDE
The Bedmakers Tribute To An Imaginary Folk Band is excellent. Six times, starting in the style of bagpipes or recorders, folklore à la Gottlieb (the cartoonist) over very sophisticated counterpoint. After which, a great plunge, and a rendez-vous at the sandpile. Joyful and effective.
Francis Marmande, LE MONDE.fr, novembre 2016
Bedmakers
Free folk jazz
Bedmakers brings together four musicians from unique, polymorphous musical universes. Anglophone saxophonist/clarinettist Robin Fincker, drummer Fabien Duscombs, electro-acoustic violinist Mathieu Werchowski and Irish bassist Dave Kane. With this colourful line-up, the quartet plunges into the meanders of folk music, digging into this fertile sonic material matured by decades of oral tradition, extracting its melodic essence and observing it through the eyes of unlabelled improvisers. An imaginary crossroads of different musical essences, offering a repertoire with multiple itineraries, in the image of these musics that, although deeply linked to their roots, know no borders.
Two years after the release of "Live In Berlin" (Jazzdor Series), the Bedmakers travel to the legendary La Buissonne studio in the south of France to record their next opus, building new bridges between revisited folk songs, original compositions and improvised chamber music.
Passe Montagne
Nicknamed after an imaginary border-smuggler and sporting a balaclava with Zapatista overtones, Passe Montagne evokes back roads and the fleeting desire to see what lies beyond the ridge. From bourrées paying homage to Ornette Coleman to Cajun bayou grooves born from a wave of noisy clicks; ballads reminiscent of vast moors followed by reels teetering on the edge of the precipice, Bedmakers plays with everything, seeking joy, vulnerability, or trance according to the mood.
Here, only the desire for freedom and surprise inherent in music of the moment matters, combined with a repertoire of diverse soundscapes. The result is a musical kaleidoscope in which the group's sound takes precedence over individual voices, serving a shared and communicative narrative.
Over the past years Bedmakers has been performing in many prominent European jazz venues and festivals as well as setting up rural tours, sharing its music to the widest audience in France, England, Estonia, Russia, Scotland, Germany, Finland.
Performing highlights include : Meteo Festival (Mulhouse), Jazzdor Festival (Strasbourg), London Jazz Festival (London), Banlieues Bleues (Paris), Jazzebre Festival (Perpignan), Jazzdor Berlin, Atlantique Jazz Festival (Brest) amongst many others …
A Freddy Morezon production.
Photo : Jose Luis Bongore