Cohelmec Ensemble – Hippotigris Zebra Zebra [LP] Post-Punk / Alt. Rock trumpeter Baikida Carroll and some

trumpeter Baikida Carroll and some of his colleagues from the Black Artists Group (more precisely saxophonist/flutist Oliver Lake

and side B recorded at the house of Hartmut Geerken

each systematically stripped back to their elemental form before being deemed complete

The simplicity-bordering naivete of the pieces evokes a discomfiting nostalgia and melancholy pointing us home or

or recorded natural sound materials

Cohelmec Ensemble – Hippotigris Zebra Zebra [LP] Post-Punk / Alt. Rock trumpeter Baikida Carroll and some"The COHELMEC ENSEMBLE celebrate above all the pleasure of collective music making. A group without a designated leader, they base their approach on reciprocal listening, but also on a dialogue between written and improvised material, in which all members have an equal responsibility whatever their instrument. This is even demonstrated in their name: COH as in Jean Cohen (saxophones), EL as in Dominique Elbaz (piano) and MEC as in the brothers Franois