FUR

The exploration of soundscapes of unexpected breadth is carried out at will. The journey is crafted by the three of them, and improvisation constantly redefines its course. This trio knows exactly what story it is going to tell you, but it doesn’t yet know how it is going to tell it; it discovers this alongside you, as they go along.

With this album, the trio presents a constant interplay of breaks that renders the music elusive in form. It’s jazz. But it has a pop feel too, thanks to the abundance of simple melodies that set the tone for the harmony. Want more? You’ll be in for a treat with its unlikely fusions of style and genre. Throughout, written and improvised language come together or trip each other up. This construction through disruption is achieved in a thousand different ways.

On this album, the three hypnotic musicians often dispense with obsessive repetitive motifs, which they constantly short-circuit. This cut-up effect, found on many tracks, makes the music psychedelic. The laws governing the musical sequences belong more to the world of dreams than to rational logic. It leaps and bounds; the threads of sound are broken or diverted from their original intentions. 

Noise occasionally breaks the line to plunge us into the timbre. Emotion flows through sensation. The abstract weaves its way into melodic riffs. Counterpointing dialogues, collages of opposing energies that glide into moments suspended by arpeggios brushed by the guitarist’s nimble fingers, whilst the clarinet weeps and lets the damp sound of its membranes be heard. The drums, meanwhile, capsize the groove until the pulse’s reference points are blurred and obliterated. Space reigns supreme, offering a glimpse of a dark, silky night. Jeanne SUSIN

“FUR is playful, because that’s how life is—nothing is stable. And to stay alive, you have to bounce from one situation to another, from a ballad to an oppressive ostinato, from a drone to a wandering melody. Together, they weave a musical fur coat with the help of a wild beast that claws, protects and tracks with its noisy, rocking melodies.”