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Front cover of the album SALUTE TO 100001 STARS - A TRIBUTE TO JEAN GENET
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DECLARED ENEMY

SALUTE TO 100001 STARS - A TRIBUTE TO JEAN GENET

Matthew Shipp
Sabir Mateen
William Parker
Gerald Cleaver
Denis Lavant

“Declared Enemy's music can eventually meet Genet's works, fierce or tactful, always respectful, never complacent.”


Matthew Shipp: piano
Sabir Mateen: alto saxophone, flute, clarinet
William Parker: double bass
Gerald Cleaver: drum set
Denis Lavant: spoken words


Chicago 68 (2.41)
Marche Funèbre (20.12)
Flowers (4.35)
Alberto's Workshop (4.13)
Mettray (4.24)
Black Panthers (3.28 ) Play Abdallah (4.32)
Le Rouge et le Noir (12.38)
Larache (5.45)

The poem "Marche Funèbre" and the text "Le Rouge et le Noir" are by Jean Genet; all the compositions are by Matthew Shipp

Music recorded on December 19th 2004 by Leon Dorsey at Leon Lee Dorsey Studio (New York, Ny, USA)
Spoken words recorded on June 7th 2005 by Michel Mathieu (Draveuil, France)
Mixing: Anthony Ruotolo
Mastering: Jean-Pierre Bouquet
Executive producer: Michel Dorbon

A unique booklet including:
The copies of an unpublished manuscript by Jean Genet and of the excerpt of another one,
An unpublished text by Angela Davis,
An original interview of Matthew Shipp by Steve Dalachinsky,
An unpublished text by Alexandre Pierrepont,
Jean Genet's photograph: Rajak Ohanian
Declared Enemy photographs: Lorna Lentini

It was by chance, during his short stay in Paris in 2000, that Matthew Shipp came across Rajak Ohanian's photograph of Jean Genet. He instantly recognized the writer, saying "Our Lady of The Flowers is one of my favourite books." And that's how it all started. Four years later, he brought together Sabeer Mateen, William Parker and Gerald Cleaver to express what Genet meant to him. Then, Denis Lavant joined them to add Genet's words to the project.
In his lifetime, Jean Genet had no real connections with Jazz but he did share with past and present Jazz inventors the same source of inspiration: the life of the underdogs.
From yesterday's slavery to today's prisons and ghettos, Afro-Americans know too what confinement means.
Just like Genet's works are a menace to the Establishment, Jazz always gets out of the clutches of any force in power, despite so many takeover attempts.
And it so happens that Jean Genet's path crosses the ones of Matthew Shipp, Sabir Mateen, William Parker, Gerald Cleaver or Denis Lavant.
Therefore, Declared Enemy's music can eventually meet Genet's works. A dialog takes place between music and words, fierce or tactful, always respectful, never complacent.
The recording took place on a December the 19th. Nobody knew it was Jean Genet's birthday.
There is no such thing as chance.
Michel Dorbon

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