VAGABONDAGES by SAXICOLA RUBI

The duo SAXICOLA RUBI was created in 2018 during an impromptu meeting between the two musicians during the ‘Jazz en Comminges’ festival in Saint-Gaudens (31). Their first album, “Ornithologismes”, was released in 2020 by Les disques Linoleum / Inouïe. At the time, the duo played the same instruments simultaneously, either two bass clarinets or two soprano saxophones, but on this new opus they experimented with mixing high and low notes with some new compositions, thus completing their sound palette.

In 2025, at the invitation of the Toulouse festival ‘Passe ton Bach d'abord’, the two musicians worked on music by J.S. Bach, adapting and arranging Inventions and Preludes for piano, violin partitas and Badinerie.

So it was only natural that three adaptations of JS Bach should be recorded for this new album. The titles have been changed, but you'll easily recognise them, even if the themes are mixed with improvisations, which remain SAXICOLA RUBI's favourite playground. So here's 'Vagabondages

SAXICOLA RUB it's the meeting of two blowers and improvisers,
a mirrored dialogue between soprano sax and clarinet
bass, a perfect two-sided musical palindrome.

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