Before long the fireflies were being released continuously from the top of the tower. “Continuously” was not really the right word, for the men who were gathering a handful of fireflies at a time before tossing them out had trouble catching them – or perhaps deliberately calculated the timing – so that the crowd’ s excitement would surge up, ebb again, then rise still higher. Kawabata Yasunari – The Lake

“Boundary Missing a Reactor” is the studio version of our live concerts which took place in 2022 (Non-Jazz at Le Générateur in Gentilly, at Blockhaus DY10 in Nantes, etc.). These concerts were conceived as failed/illusory attempts to reproduce our previous LP in a live setting. The result turned out to be so far from the intended target that it seemed to us it deserved to become a piece in its own right. “Boundary missing a reactor” is a condensed/crystallized form of the music we were playing at that time.

“How to drink Gyokuro with a casual mind” is a piece born from the preparatory sessions for the concert given at Présences Électronique in March 2024, recorded at the INA GRM studios shortly before. Its title could evoke the musicians’ state of mind during those sessions, that of the listener, or a tasting tip poorly translated from Japanese. First of all, we just do things, and then whatever we might say about it afterwards is really just what we think about once we’ve done it, but the sequence of it is that we make music first, and then afterwards we think about
what we’ve done.