Released in 1979, Tutti Fluti stands as one of Teddy Lasry's most unique and poetic statements. Entirely centered on flutes, of which he remains an undisputed master, this record offers a dreamlike dive into ethereal jazz, naturalistic ambient, and subtle electronic experimentation that feels remarkably prescient four decades later. Teddy Lasry, original member of Magma, carved his reputation through a distinctive approach to wind instruments and synthesizers that transcended conventional boundaries. As composer, performer, and texture inventor, he constructs here a delicate, contemplative, and genuinely timeless sound world that operates according to its own internal logic.
On Tutti Fluti, flutes undergo radical transformation - becoming voices, breath, wind, and calls to the imagination. These aren't merely instrumental performances but alchemical processes where air becomes art. Accompanied by luminous keyboards and subtle rhythms that seem to emerge from silence itself, the flutes shape an organic, soft, and introspective music perfectly suited for active meditation or immersive listening. The album exists in that rare space where technical mastery serves pure expression. Lasry's command of his instruments allows him to focus entirely on atmosphere and emotion, creating music that feels both composed and improvised, structured yet completely free. Each track unfolds with the patience of natural phenomena - like watching clouds form or listening to water flow.
This is music that operates outside commercial considerations, guided purely by artistic vision and spiritual inquiry. The electronic elements never overwhelm but rather provide subtle coloration, like light filtering through leaves. The result feels both deeply rooted in jazz tradition and completely liberated from it. A rare and atypical album, Tutti Fluti now finds its rightful place among the great classics of auteur library music, occupying the fertile territory between spiritual jazz and the imagined soundtrack of a film never made. It represents library music at its most personal and visionary - functional music that transcends function to become pure art.
