Lost on the Way is an album by French clarinetist and composer Louis Sclavis

Louis Sclavis

Louis Sclavis is a French jazz musician. He performs on clarinet, bass clarinet, and soprano saxophone in a variety of contexts, including jazz and free jazz...

 recorded in 2008 and released on the ECM label.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Michael G. Nastos awarded the album 4½ stars stating "This is masterpiece among many well-crafted efforts by Sclavis, and comes highly recommended for fans of or newcomers to his extraordinary music".

Track listing

All compositions by Louis Sclavis except as indicated

1. "De Charybde en Scylla" – 5:35
2. "La Première Île" (Olivier Lété, Sclavis) – 1:24
3. "Lost on the Way" (Lété, Sclavis) – 6:42
4. "Bain d'Or" – 6:03
5. "Le Sommeil des Sirènes" – 7:23
6. "L 'Heure des Songes" – 4:19
7. "Aboard Ulysses's Boat" – 5:52
8. "Les Doutes du Cyclope" – 6:51
9. "Un Vent Noir" – 3:40
10. "The Last Island" (Lété) – 1:20
11. "Des Bruits à Tisser" – 5:18
12. "L 'Absence" – 2:24
    • Recorded at the Théâtre de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France in September 2008.

Personnel

• Louis Sclavis
  Louis Sclavis
  Louis Sclavis is a French jazz musician. He performs on clarinet, bass clarinet, and soprano saxophone in a variety of contexts, including jazz and free jazz...
  
   — clarinet
  Clarinet
  The clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...
  
  , soprano saxophone
  Soprano saxophone
  The soprano saxophone is a variety of the saxophone, a woodwind instrument, invented in 1840. The soprano is the third smallest member of the saxophone family, which consists of the soprillo, sopranino, soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, bass, contrabass and tubax.A transposing instrument pitched in...
  
  
• Matthias Metzger — soprano saxophone, alto saxophone
  Alto saxophone
  The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in 1841. It is smaller than the tenor but larger than the soprano, and is the type most used in classical compositions...
  
  
• Maxime Delpierre — guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  
• Olivier Lété — bass
  Double bass
  The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...
  
  
• François Merville — drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....