Wonderfully energetic, rhythmic stylish, inventive and witty sixth album by the 12-piece experimental Geneva collective who sing politically in French and English, their music decorated with oodles of of clever brass, violins, double-bass, marimbas, percussion and more. Founded by double bassist Vincent Bertholet in 2006, their creative, mischievous spirit is inspired by the artist Marcel Duchamp. Musical and lyric wit and sharp turns come throughout, from the marching pace of opener Tout Cassé, the punch brass, interweaving sung and spoken voices and stop-start rhythms of Breath (“I’ve been working so hard!”), the jazzy cool of Coagule with great bass line an timpani bounces with an ironic perspective on “the extinction of the species”, the sharp, abstract string and brass blasts of Dehors, the intricate marimbas of Color which has a Talking Heads energy, all the way to closer Smile Like A Flower, it’s a non-stop playful, infectious joy as jazz, folk, pop, gypsy, krautrock, post-punk, and African rhythms and more interlayer in clever, constantly agile combinations. What an immensely fun and brilliant band to be part of or just to even see perform. Out on Bongo Joe Records.
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