Les Disques Omnison / France / 2024
« Thank God the counterpoint exists, and it's bloody exciting. Far from re-enacting the revolution, the brilliants Alan Briand (Shelter) and Tom Val (Orion Music Workshop) join forces in a jam-sessions style, as in before Internet age, like ageless musicians searching for nothing but their own pleasure in hijacking everything they can get their hands on to create an improbable future. Already responsible for their own adventurous records, these two discreet builders are constructing an unsuspected elsewhere. An ageless scene that draws on noise, German rock, pioneering techno and more, a non-jazz of scholars who forget everything to perpetuate a purifying ritual. In this great bath, the ear finds Durutti Column unplugged in an art gallery, a certain electronic blues. An inhabited ambient (that's so rare) where the unheard invites itself into happy nightmares where rusty Indian tablas found at a prehistoric rave party intermingle. In short, we rediscover the innocence of the early days, the desire to fight with the time, to do a lot with a little. Away from the machine to rediscover a little magic at your fingertips. The spirit of libertarian jazz plugged into a jack, and much more besides. »