Louis Laurain / Rodolphe Loubatiere / Yoann Durant - Au Dehors mp3 album

After I introduced his amazing collaboration with guitarist Olivier Dumont, another interesting release co-signed by creative French percussionist Rodolphe Loubatiere is an outdoor performance recorded with Yoann Durant (trumpet) and Louis Laurain (saxophone). Beyond the typical fuzzy way of playing instruments, one of the funniest aspect of "Au dehors" (French for "outside") is the occasional weird symbiosis between surrounding setting and musicians, who sometimes sound like the copycat of what happens nearby their dais, so that winds seem to talk to the tweeting birds by mocking them (Monsier Laurain manages to imitate even a dove) and percussions look like hacking and sputtering after people's coughs, while the interplay between the musical instruments is really amazing as there are many moments when it seems they exchange their roles. After the initial tuning when Rodolphe sounds like rubbing any trace of musical score out by wiping his metallic objects off while his playmates starts blowing dust off their tools, mikes intercept amazing jokes and really weird sounds which seem to fall faul till the final crumbling. It certainly deserves a listening.(Vito Camarretta 26.09.2012 - ChainD.L.K)