Les Égarés cover
Released

The more time progresses, and the more the Information age exposes us to music from all eras and areas, the harder it is for genre fusions to surprise. Which makes this collaborative album all the more impressive. It contains a lot of things: ECM-style European jazz, minimalist composition, various Mediterranean and Central European folk sounds, the delicate Malian kora playing of Ballaké Sissoko. But these flow together as if in a dream, and in doing so are constantly remade afresh. It’s reminiscent of the way the Penguin Café Orchestra cut folk, jazz and classical influences completely loose from their origins in the pursuit of world building — and there are few higher compliments than that.

Joe Muggs

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