This four-evening concert cycle stages a collision between nostalgic anachronism and urgent futurity, producing jolting aesthetic shocks. Musicians move between written material and wild improvisation, blending kitsch textures, dazzling contrasts and incandescent timbres. Florence Melnotte (kaoscilator, piano, synthesizer, vocals), Sylvain Fournier (drums, vocals) and Louis Billette (saxophones, flugelhorn, vocals) shape a sound-world where intimacy and chaos entwine, inviting listeners into a luminous, unpredictable musical theatre.

Since its founding, La Fanfare du Loup has served as a musical laboratory where diverse traditions and practices meet. For this project the ensemble invites Finnish saxophonist and composer Esa Pietilä, whose exploratory voice reframes genre boundaries. The large ensemble, including Christophe Berthet (sax), Théo Duboule (guitar), Aïda Diop (percussion), Marie Mercier (clarinets) and others, trades tight horn figures, shimmering textures and improvisatory flights, creating dense, evolving soundscapes that blend composition and collective spontaneity.

Casimir Liberski (piano) and Yoshida Tatsuya (drums) forge volatile, ever-shifting soundscapes that move between explosive improvisation, progressive punk energy and electroacoustic experimentation. After touring Japan in 2024 with guests such as Otomo Yoshihide and Akira Sakata, the duo unveils material from their new album Harmolodic Tamagotchi, recorded live across Japan. Performances alternate dense, percussive textures and lyrical pianistic passages, creating an unpredictable, visceral listening experience that balances tension and playful abandon.

Led by pianist Gabriel Zufferey, the quartet explores jazz as a living, intergenerational conversation. Drawing on spontaneity and ancestral avant-gardes, the music moves between luminous improvisation and intimate interplay: Domi Chansorn’s drums propel rhythmic waves while Alex Allflatt’s bass and Killian Perret-Gentil’s guitar weave harmonic threads. The repertoire favors reappropriation of collective languages, yielding moments of warmth, tension and release that invite attentive listening and communal resonance.