Pierre Favre - Now (2016)

Swiss percussionist Pierre Favre leads DrumSights, an ensemble of four drummers, on this album showcasing the percussionist as poet, the drummer as soundscape painter and the composer as storyteller. In the studio, the drum quartet performed and recorded these works from memory with plenty of room for improvisation. As Favre says, the most complex and risky parts were played with a smile.

"This group has become an organism with a specific and recognizable sound. Some parts can be perceived by unsophisticated ears as lacking precision ... the aim of it all is to create frictions, to open spaces in the listener’s feeling, to bring him to let go of his fear of leaving the ground and to use his wings!"
- Pierre Favre