Artist Info

guillaume orti (F) : alto saxophone
laurent blondiau (B) : trumpet
bo van der werf (NL): baritone saxophone
jozef dumoulin (B): fender rhodes
fabian fiorini (B) : piano
jean-luc lehr (F) : bass
chander sardjoe (NL): drums


Being unpredictable is Octurn’s speciality. For over a decade now, it has staked out its own musical landscape by continually mixing and blending approaches and gamely covering its tracks, all the while keeping originality and searching spirit. Albums, concerts, repertoires, personnels and collaborations remain as proof of their creative fertilitiy and accomplishments.

“We are inexorably carried by this fleshy mechanism, fascinated by the perpetually-renewed perfection of its cogs, thrilled by the remarkable personalities that roam it so freely, buffetted by the diverse viewpoints offered onto this rotating sonic monolith.” (Franck Bergerot in the October 2002 issue of JAZZMAN) Bergerot’s detailled observations still apply to a futuristic and furiously electrifying music that’s as ambiguous as it is darkly humourous. This elliptical music, alternately fusing and fissioning, combines moments of wide-open relaxation with others of great tension and often of unprecedented rhythmic density.

We’ve grown accustomed to Octurn’s ambition, originality and search for new ways of thinking. The listener is ensnared, entirely willingly, in the mesh of a delicately shivering net. Like the never-ending stories passed down orally since the beginning of time, Octurn’s saga will go on feeding the fantasies of courageous sound-harvesters.