Octurn

Being unpredictable is Octurn’s speciality. For over a decade now, it has staked out its own musical landscape by continually mixing and blending approaches and gamely covering its tracks, all the while keeping originality and searching spirit. Albums, concerts, repertoires, personnels and collaborations remain as proof of their creative fertilitiy and accomplishments.

“We are inexorably carried by this fleshy mechanism, fascinated by the perpetually-renewed perfection of its cogs, thrilled by the remarkable personalities that roam it so freely, buffetted by the diverse viewpoints offered onto this rotating sonic monolith.” (Franck Bergerot in the October 2002 issue of JAZZMAN) Bergerot’s detailled observations still apply to a futuristic and furiously electrifying music that’s as ambiguous as it is darkly humourous. This elliptical music, alternately fusing and fissioning, combines moments of wide-open relaxation with others of great tension and often of unprecedented rhythmic density.