Dominique Ané’s tenth album was conceived with a rock ban, a piano and a wind quintet. It bears all the hallmarks of an exceptional work: form, content, emotional charge and technical skill, in service of a quest for beauty that’s celestial, bucolic, maritime, pastoral and even wild. This appreciation of the bonds between living beings and their habitat is set against the backdrop of a world in marked decline, where “strange animals throw themselves over cliffs”, where “the tides have the flavour of metal”, where we observe from afar a convoy of fugitives who “dream of fruits and berries.”
