PRESS
"A significant new voice on the alto saxophone."
Michael McCaw, ALL ABOUT JAZZ.COM
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" ...an emphatically cosmopolitan saxophonist and composer."
Nate Chinen, NEW YORK TIMES
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"…knottily vibrant compositions…"
TIME OUT NEW YORK
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"…perpetually shifting tunes, richness of timbre, and a singular personality. You can almost see this music expanding and contracting."
Jim Macnie, VILLAGE VOICE
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"Attias plays with great authority and passion."
David Adler, ALL ABOUT JAZZ-NY
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"This is muy hip. They set up an out groove that makes me smile when I listen!"
Grego Applegate Edwards, CADENCE
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" There are plenty of sax/bass/drums trios around these days, but saxophonist Michaël Attias and his trio Renku have a sound all their own, a distinctive mixture of sweet-and-sour lyricism and off-kilter stomp... like a hip-hop inflected version of Braxton's pulse-track structures; they don’t merely subdivide the beat, they pounce on it."
Nate Dorward, CODA
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“Attias is one of the more exciting instrumentalists within this wide-ranging idiom.”
Glenn Astarita, ALL ABOUT JAZZ.COM