LES DIABOLIQUES: A jamboree of skits and mini operas on love, collapsing marriages (including that royal one) politics and rejection from three of Europe's finest improvisers. Pianist Schweizer and bassist Léandre seem to have digested the last century's worth of jazz and classical traditions between them, yet their handling of them combines studious reverence with a freshness and humour you can almost reach out and touch. Nicols is in familiar company here and uses that air of friendly assurance to stretch herself even further. She has never recorded better - it's not just her four octave range which impresses; nor is it her ability to take the seemingly ordinary and find the extraordinary within it (and there's certainly plenty of that going on here): it's the way she articulates the processes of improvisation through song that makes this music so accessible. Highly recommended.
David Ilic, The Wire, London

Cover Art: Rosina Kuhn

All Compositions by Irêne Schweizer, Maggie Nicols, Joelle Leandre, except: Iwo Waves and Silly Boy (Maggie Nicols/Irene Schweizer), Little Nicols (Joelle Leandre/Maggie NICOlS).
Published by Intakt Records, SUISA. Recorded November 7,8 1994 at Rote Fabrik Zürich.
Engineer: Peter Pfister Mastered March 29, 1997 at Studio Peter Pfister by Rosmarie A. Meier and Irène Schweizer
Thanks to «Wie es Ihr getallt», Magda Vogel, Angela von allian Produced by Intakt Records, P. O. Box 468, CH 8024 Zürich
Executive Production: Rosmarie A. Meier