HUGUES MAYOT
Genres: World Fusion, Third Stream, Eclectic Fusion • France

Born April 20th 1980 in Villerupt, France It was in 2003, while involved in guitarist Marc Ducret’s ambitious “Le Sens de la Marche” project, that clarinettist/saxophonist Hugues Mayot — who had already been noticed with the groups Pitch Quartet and La Poche à Sons —, decided to devote himself to the demanding, resolutely trans-genre orientations of his own aesthetic, essentially founded on the taut relationships between organization and energy, taste for form, and the great game of improvisation. Since graduating from François Théberge’s jazz class at the CNSM in Paris, Hugues Mayot has multiplied experiences with such ensembles as Paul Brousseau’s Kolkhoze Printanium, GleizKrew, or Sylvaine Hélary’s “Spring Roll” project. But setting up the group Radiation 10 with a few of his fellow students at the Conservatoire (like Fidel Fourneyron) — a group determinedly collectivist in its organization, whilst totally eclectic in its sources of inspiration (contemporary, prog-rock, modern jazz) — was read more...