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Some excerpts from our new CD which will be released soon.

Octopus CD Excerpt 3

Octopus CD Exerpt 2

Octopus CD Exerpt 1

Elisabeth, Nora, Hugues and Nathan met in March 2013.  We came together to improvise in Cologne.  Four cellists who had never played as a group before.  One might expect a homogeneous, ego-driven mess of sound.  As it turned out, we're all pretty generous people and something very special happened that evening.  So, in a quite organic way:

OCTOPUS WAS BORN

Why Octopus?  Think about it...

First: animals are, in general, cool.  I mean, have you ever seen an Octopus maneuvering across the ocean floor, curling and slinging his eight arms with impressive virtuosity?

And how does that make us an Octopus?  Perhaps it's obvious: we have eight arms, too, but FOUR brains.

Like some sort of musical Voltron, however, these arms come from different places with different backgrounds.  One arm plays jazz, one plays Bach, another Boulez... but they all improvise and they all listen and work together.

So there's a lot of weird stuff happening in the Octopus brain: Clashes... discussions... unexpected deviations of thought... with 8-armed dreams leading him to amazing, unexpected paths through the unknown territories of the deep sea.

Octopus is flexible and free and therefore loves to improvise while swimming alone, but he is also open, generous and kind which means he likes working with other artistic creatures.

TheOctopus

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