Franck Tortiller understood this perfectly with his surprising and inspired re-reading of the savage energy of the mythic English rock group Led Zeppelin, and has continued in his second opus to explore the twists and turns of fusion; more particularly in the domain of jazz (from Miles Davis to Weather Report, via the Headhunters and the early outings of the Mahavishnu Orchestra). Taking his ever fluid and precise mini big band on a veritable rhythmic odyssey, Tortiller offers us, in the midst of his pulsating maelstrom, neither a view from outside attempting to "clean up" the essential impurity of these hybrid, sensual musics, nor a painstaking, mannered reconstitution merely interested in form for its own sake, but a joyful determined dive into the heart of the volcano..

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