Andy Emler: There Is Another Way (RJAL 397053)

Andy Emler pianoClaude Tchamitchian double bassEric Echampard drumsRecorded July 17-18 and mixed July 21-22, 2026, by Gérard de Haro at Studios La BuissonneMastering by Nicolas Baillard at La Buissonne Mastering StudiosSteinway grand piano prepared and tuned by Sylvain CharlesProduced by La Compagnie aime l’air, license to La Buissonne LabelArtistic director Gérard de Haro for La Buissonne LabelRelease date: March 20, 2026 The second release on the La Buissonne label for 2026 returns to the ever-fertile terrain of pianist Andy Emler, whose singular compositional language has flourished across a wide range of ensembles, though perhaps nowhere with such distilled intimacy as in this trio alongside bassist Claude Tchamitchian and drummer Eric Echampard. Together, they move as a migratory organism, each gesture altering the trajectory of the next. The album unfolds as a study in divergence itself, a meditation on paths abandoned, rediscovered, then illuminated from impossible angles. The…