Pascal Niggenkemper, an adventurous double bassist who spent a decade experimenting and meeting new people on the New York scene, as well as in Aveyron in France, where he honed his sense of space and his relationship with time, presents The Ocean Within Us, a project first performed at the Jazzdor Strasbourg-Berlin festival last June. Blending spoken word, electronic treatments, groove and free improvisation, this band combines the rhythmic intelligence of Mariá Portugal, drummer from Brazil influenced by jazz and Brazilian popular music, the masked textures of Berlin of Berlin keyboardist Liz Kosack, and the saxophone riffs of Athens-based Nicky Kokkoli, transformed with the help of accessories by the leader, the true pivot of this grooving machine that is as improbable as it is dizzying.

The Ocean Within Us is a Jazzdor production.

Invited to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Musiques à Ouïr with a series of concerts, Christophe Monniot was charmed by the magic of the acoustic saxophone-piano-double bass-drums quartet he formed with drummer Denis Charolles, pianist Sophia Domancich, and double bassist Felipe Cabrera. This experience gave rise to a repertoire for the quartet, in which Christophe Monniot drew inspiration from Keith Jarrett, Cannonball Adderley, and Dave Brubeck, adding a few more contemporary and European touches. The quartet invites us to discover this revisited Proustian madeleine.