Pierre Bastien, Dr. Truna

"Surrealistic games helped us to compose this album: the collective collage in the two longest pieces of the album, the exquisite corpse in the central short pieces, and in all, the automatic writing whose musical equivalent could well be free improvisation.

In the scorching heat of a Valencian August, we raised two electric totem poles. Dr Truna's took the form of his cosmic bull, a great roaring and improvising sculpture; mine, equipped with blowers, was made for the occasion and then dismantled. You can feel the ambient heat in the jungle of the opening and closing pieces, which we first improvised with our totems, the globotarra and some other instruments of our invention. In a second session, this time we invited only Dr Truna's cello and my trumpet to improvise again as a strict duo, i.e. without listening to the sounds of the first session. We then mixed the two recordings, leaving a lot to chance.

The four core pieces were recorded later, this time over the beginning of an exquisite corpse. Half were initiated by one of us, half by the other. Our mutual responses were instantaneous: it was a matter of reacting without taking time to think, to preserve the spontaneity of improvisation and to give the surrealist game all its imaginative force." - Pierre Bastien