Jeanne Gorisse - Moires
(OMNISON13 / March 2026)


27€ - 300 copies

"Another window opens - and with it, another singular mystery of modern impressionism joins the catalogue of Les Disques Omnison. Classicaly trained yet reshaped by Paris experimental and improvisation scene, Jeanne Gorisse pushes her "bass" practice further on her second solo album, a follow-up to her 2024 debut "Immersion Libre". Alongside the double bass, she explores bowed electric bass, and re-records herself to tape on several tracks; creating an intimate dialogue between the acoustic and the electric.

To introduce Moires, one might obviously summon the lineage of the experimental bass mavericks in France - Joëlle Léandre, for example... Yet, Jeanne catches the listener off-balance, blending lyrical improvisation with a distinctly modern sensibility, recalling Rachel's chamber music & post-rock crossover, and echoing the raw energy of teenage bedroom rock through deliberately imperfect electric riffs. In doing so, Moires expands the vocabulary of solo bowed instruments, 57 years after Barre Philipps opening the continuum of solo bass recording with his diametrically different Unaccompanied Barre (1969, very first solo bass recording). Moving beyond the choice between virtuosity and textural research, to embrace the one of narrative forms. The bass becomes a voice capable of fragile motifs and distorted gestures. Moments of lyricism give way to percussive, almost physical plucks and bows, emphasizing the materiality of the instrument. It allows the album to quietly dissolve genre boundaries. While it resonates with the modern classical and underground noise of cellists Lucy Railton and Leila Bordreuil, the world of Jeanne’s guiding presence Félicie Bazelaire, and the spacious minimalism of composers like Éliane Radigue or Pauline Oliveros, she takes the road of a strikingly stripped-down instrument, unmediated by electronics and production reduced to some very simple re-recordings used to echo and layer her playing.

Without a doubt, this is a highly personal mix influenced by Jeanne's experience of playing and improvising in different contexts; from playing classical and ancient music to club-culture fueled music, from playing in Paris underground venues like Les Instants Chavirés, Le Non Jazz or Chair de Poule to composing soundtracks for theater. A status that reflects a new generation of talented experimental musicians for whom stylistic scenes no longer exist in isolation, one that navigates music landscapes transformed by globalization, post-internet culture, the collapse of hierarchies between "high" and "low" cultures, for whom hybridity is a lived musical reality, equally at ease performing in different settings everyday. This versatility finds one of its expression on Moires. Within this world, Jeanne Gorisse’s bowed-bass-centered approach stands out for its radical rawness, offering a direct and quiet powerful voice."

Double bass, electric bass by Jeanne Gorisse
Recorded and produced in Paris by Tom Val
Mastered at Studio 121 by Alan Briand
Artwork & design by Tom Val

"Die zweite Platte ist von Jeanne Gorisse und wurde vor knapp drei Wochen auf einem meiner absoluten Lieblingslabel, Les Disques Omnison, als Katalognummer 13 veröffentlicht. Es ist eine unglaublich schöne, berührende Musik, die Jeanne Gorisse hier nur mittels Kontrabass und E-Bass geschaffen hat." (Hausmuller Und Das Jazz)

"Double bassist Jeanne Gorisse is classically trained but has established herself as an improviser in Paris’ experimental scene. This second album builds on the spare, captured-in-the-raw Immersion Libre, bringing in multitracking to tape and bass guitar while retaining and even accentuating the debut’s biting edge. The layering gives Moires a more robust sound and a greater textural range. The groaning low end from the double bass reaches into your chest cavity and gives it an abrasive massage – not exactly soothing but definitely invigorating, and the electric bass is sometimes bowed, or used to unleash an unexpected flurry of notes at the end of ‘Freya’, provide ‘Lachésis’ with a rapid, insistent bassline and add damped-string plunking to ‘Ni Mais Si’. There’s sometimes a bestial quality to the sounds Gorisse produces – ‘Arnanke’ suggests a dog shut in a room with a wasp – while on closer ‘Atropos’, or the juddering climax to ‘Firmaments’, she’s channeling elemental forces." (David McKenna, The Quietus)

"This is the album I’ve listened to most this month. Jeanne Gorisse is apparently a classically trained double bass player but seems to have achieved escape velocity from those constraints, and not in the usual way. There is something pleasingly clunky and borderline inept about some of these tracks in a way that pushes past contemporary avant-garde or New Music and into DIY textures. I mean this all as a compliment, because if there’s any direction it’s almost impossible to move it’s back into the DIY from the conservatoire. That’s not true of all the tracks here but it’s what I like about it’s character, loose with bendy, dissonant strings. ‘Freya’ sounds drunk, ‘Ni Mais Si’ is hesitant and proximate to free improv, ‘Atropos’ comes on like heavy weather and wild wilds." (Jennifer Lucy Allan, The Quietus)

"Paris-based musician Jeanne Gorisse debuts for Les Disques Omnison with a long form selection of electro-acoustic improvisations derived from the intersection of both the double bass and bowed electric bass. Given this is released by Tom Val’s label, you can expect a rough-around-the-edge quality of these recordings that belies Gorisse’s classical training - there’s an obvious intention to move away from the institutional to something a little looser, free-form, and, well, overtly experimental. There’s an intriguing dialogic element to the positioning of sound here, with the re-recording and layering of Gorisse’s playing in very subtle ways, creating a sense of intimate minimalism, the listener made privy to a private process of creating and expressing. The DIY element of the Les Disques Omnison scene is likely a guiding inspiration to Gorisse’s approach, though you can certainly hear trace elements of the greats in here too - Ellen Fullman, Elaine Radigue, Phil Niblock, Pauline Oliveros et al - which positioned Moires in a compelling position between the traditional avant garde and an emergent new underground." (World Of Echo)

"GNARLY new offering from Les Disques Omnison—a label that takes a sharp left turn with each release but absolutely cannot miss. This collection of acoustic and bowed-electric bass compositions by classically trained experimental improviser Jeanne Gorisse is both their most "high brow" release and their most punk rock." (Seasonal Work)