'An Indian's Life' continues Henri Texier's lifelong interest in native American history and culture, first illustrated in his critically acclaimed album 'An Indian's Week' (1993). "It's from a childhood passion", Texier explains, "Something very intimate but not intellectualized, so much, that connects me back to the little Parisian kid I was in the 50's, of course, later I added jazz to the cocktail, I linked the Native American genocide to the oppression of the Afro-Americans, and I identified with this wretched part of America through jazz music".
Once again, Henri Texier has produced a work of vibrating music in tune with the Native American psyche. All the compositions are his own (except Black and Blueby Fats Waller and Harry Brooks) and include pieces honouring his friends Carla Bley and Steve Swallow, the tutelary figure of Charles Mingus, Don Cherry, and Paul Motian.
Texier never fails to state where he comes from, turning his deeply welcoming music into a space of dialogue between traditions and generations, acknowledgment of others in all their differences.
Henri Texier: double bass, compositions
Sebastien Texier: saxophone, clarinet
Sylvain Rifet: saxophone, clarinet
Gautier Garrigue: drums
Manu Codjia: guitar
Carlo Nardozza: trumpet
Himiko Paganotti: voice
Recorded at Studio Gil Evans, Amiens, France, June 2023
