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HIGH-WIRE ACOUSTIC JAZZ<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Ga\u00ebl Horellou<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Four singular voices turning acoustic jazz into a field of friction, freedom and momentum.<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>
\nGa\u00ebl Horellou is one of the most distinctive saxophonists of the French jazz scene: a musician whose powerful, lyrical sound and restless curiosity have shaped a career spanning acoustic jazz, electro-jazz, groove-based projects and large-scale collective adventures. Classically and jazz-trained, he began performing professionally in the early 1990s and first gained national recognition with the Mu Collective, winner of the Vienna Festival competition in 1995 and the D\u00e9fense Jazz Competition in 1996. He later co-founded the electro-jazz project Cosmik Connection, awarded at the Printemps de Bourges and MIDEM Talents.<\/p>\n

With Nowhere Out, Horellou returns to the essential language of the acoustic jazz quartet \u2014 but with no interest in playing it safe. Co-led with pianist Jean-Michel Pilc, the project brings together four major individual voices: Horellou on saxophone, Pilc on piano, Thomas Bramerie on double bass and Thomas Galliano on drums. Their shared ground is not a fixed repertoire or a prescribed aesthetic, but a commitment to listening, risk and collective invention.<\/p>\n

Nowhere Out is a high-energy meeting point between four musicians who treat improvisation as the central architecture of the performance. Original compositions and bold reworkings of jazz standards provide material rather than boundaries. Each concert unfolds in real time, propelled by the interaction between Pilc\u2019s unpredictable pianistic imagination, Horellou\u2019s full-bodied and melodic saxophone voice, Bramerie\u2019s deeply grounded bass playing and Galliano\u2019s precise, elastic sense of groove.<\/p>\n

Horellou\u2019s contribution is central to the quartet\u2019s identity. His playing carries both the directness of the jazz tradition and an appetite for open forms, allowing the music to move naturally between lyricism, urgency, swing and abstraction. In dialogue with Pilc, he brings a strong melodic instinct without reducing the music to familiar formulas; the quartet thrives on tension, surprise and the pleasure of taking the audience somewhere unplanned.<\/p>\n

More than a reunion of accomplished musicians, Nowhere Out is a living conversation: acoustic jazz played at full intensity, with clarity, generosity and a sense of danger. It is a project for venues and festivals looking for a quartet capable of combining virtuosity with genuine spontaneity, a live experience in which no two performances can ever be the same.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>

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Ga\u00ebl Horellou is available as a quartet project.<\/div>\n
Line-up can be adapted to the artistic direction, venue capacity and event format.<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

PRESS<\/p>\n<\/div>

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When four exceptional musicians come together around a shared vision of musical freedom, the chemistry is immediate.
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Blending originals with bold takes on standards, their music thrives on improvisation, transforming each concert into a vibrant journey of swing, intensity, and surprise.
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Nowhere Out is not simply a jazz concert, but an experience built in the moment \u2014 where anything can emerge, shift and transform.
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Discography<\/p>\n<\/div>

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New Step | 2026<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Organ Power II | 2026<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Koul\u00e8r Fitir | 2025<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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You must believe in Spiring | 2024<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Lysergic Sound | 2023<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Dalonaz | 2022<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Organ Power! | 2021<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Tous Les Peuples | 2019<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Nasty Factorz | 2017<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Identit\u00e9 | 2017<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Moral De Fer | 2016<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Synthesis | 2015<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Brooklyn | 2014<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Legacy (Live) | 2014<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Roy | 2014<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Time After Time | 2013<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Sextet Live | 2011<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Travels | 2011<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Pour La Terre | 2009<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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II | 2008<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Exploration| 2006<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Versus | 1999<\/h2><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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\nJean-Michel PILC | Piano<\/span>
\nThomas BRAMERIE | Double Bass<\/span>
\nThomas GALLIANO | Drums<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Nowhere out – Live sessions<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Gallery<\/p>\n<\/div>

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