"Five men walk on stage, two carry saxophones, one a guitar, the pianist and drummer sit down at their instruments. It looks like a conventional notion of a band, the sole concession to the world of electronics the Gibson Les Paul, itself a guitar design that has changed little in the past sixty years. Every instrument carries with it the expectation of a characteristic envelope, the attack and decay of individual sounds. And then Hubbub starts to play and that visual presence remains in place, almost a tableau, as warm reminder and comforting insistence on the acoustic experience and the tradition of watching people play musical instruments rather than laptops, oscillators, synths and sampling machines. In Hubbub's hands every technique for the typically discrete sound is regularly exchanged for a drone." - Stuart Broomer, Point of Departure. 

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Frédéric Blondy / piano

Bertrand Denzler / tenor saxophone

Jean-Luc Guionnet / alto saxophone

Jean-Sébastien Mariage / electric guitar

Edward Perraud / drums & percussion

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Recorded in concert at Festival Muzzix, La Malterie, Lille, France on April 23rd 2010 & at Carré Bleu, Poitiers, France on February 12th 2010. 

Available as a 320k MP3 or 16bit FLAC download.