Erik Truffaz & Murcof :: Being Human Being
The sonic love affair between Swiss-born French Blue Note veteran jazz trumpeter Erik Truffaz and Mexican ambient electronica artist Murcof, had already produced unique results before. In 2008 they released their debut collaborative effort, Mexico, a mini album that fuses their distinctive powers into a rather organic sounding atmospheric hybrid. Before that, in 2006, the two worked with famous tabla player Talvin Singh as a genre-crossing live trio. Being Human Being, which was inspired and enhanced by the striking work of Enki Bilal, the French comics artist and filmmaker, is Truffaz and Murcof’s sophomore studio-based collaborative effort, an exotic, incendiary and outrageous work that carries a lot of production/studio wizardry, but also a seductive aura of improvisation which glows throughout.