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This recording is a real novelty. Not only chronologically. This is a novelty in the purest sense, in the sense of a genuine rarity.
Here Christophe Monniot tries and succeeds in what has been little attempted in recent years in the world of jazz. What does this singularity consist of? We can mention three aspects that characterize it: a concept album, very rich materials and the spiritual dimension.
Inspired by an inner necessity, Christophe Monniot and his collaborators have elaborated a very personal music, even revolutionary, and as such disturbing. It is a music that resists its own reification, it refuses to be an object and presents itself to us as a subject. It engages in an interaction, it solicits an answer and constitutes, by this personal challenge and this respect of the listener, a prophetic and essential voice in jazz today.
(from Michel Petrossian’s liner notes)

Drummer Peter Bruun from Copenhagen has been aware through his musical career of the creative potential and power lurking in paradoxical manoeuvres. In this new unit he has gathered three like-minded musical fellows under the All Too Human (ATH) flag. Through the years he undertook a lot of terra incognita expeditions with pianist Simon Toldam, guitarist Marc Ducret and trumpeter Kasper Tranberg. It connected and connects them on deeper levels in their musical interaction.

A sort of oscillation between rethought classics and new ground, this trio date by Daunik Lazro (baritone, tenor saxophones), Jean-Luc Cappozzo (trumpet, fluegelhorn) and Didier Lasserre (on drums, percussion) calls upon some standards and some free originals to catapult us into an ozone strata of improvisational futures laced with classics of past tenses spoken in the present-future tense.