The compositions of wind-player Alban Darche defy labelling, mixing both styles and epochs in a generous extra-terrestrial soup in which one surprise follows another; foggy jazz, somewhat clichéd, turning into funk mixed with seventies, reminiscences of m-base architecture caught by an easy-listening keyboard; (...) nothing is completely normal in this impertinent and caustic mix, and it is difficult to say what gives it its incontestable charm. (...) It could be a schoolboy’s dream: and yet it is so surprising and fascinating, both because of the talent of the soloists and the quality of the compositions, and because of the character of the group and the daring that Alban Darche boldly puts to the test in his construction of a sonic universe, however strange it may be. Miles away from revision for studious students, the cube invents its world as a column of wooden bricks, superimposing colours and genres with a surprising sense of collage and shift.
Bernard Quiriny

01. L’Apéritif
02. Douggy doug
03. Madame Mouchi
04. Tip top biguine
05. Tip-top jazz
06. Le Thé
07. Solotage
08. La gare, le matin
09. Papa Tango Stephi
10. C’baff
11. Ursulane
12. Le Pr. Roulin pète les plombs
13. Bananne
14. Les filles de Goda
15. La fête du travail
16. Tip-top techno
17. Chanson au carré

all compositions by Alban Darche

It's not an exhaustive list.

le gros cube >> la martipontine
le gros cube >> le gros cube VS katerine
le gros cube >> polar mood
le cube >> autorité culinaire
quartethno >> quartethno
olh acoustic >> une vie sans lune
jazzophone quartet >> blues for geo
jazzophone cie + tim berne >> mosaiques
qüntêt >> on the road enfin...
olh acoustic >> G. meets K.
jazzophone >> yellow suite
alban darche trio >> trickster
qüntêt >> vents dominants
alban darche trio >> brut ou demi sec?
d. casimir & yolk en cuisine >> Phonotaxis ou le génome de la vache
quartethno >> tawada
le cube >> frelon rouge
le gros cube >> queen bishop

unit >> wavin'
le gros cube >> la martipontine
le gros cube >> le gros cube VS katerine
le gros cube >> polar mood
le cube >> autorité culinaire
triade >> japan edition
triade >> l'ardu
a suivre... x'tet >> paris-calvance
a suivre... x'tet >> variations alterees
hazebrouck sextet >> frasques
d. casimir & yolk en cuisine >> Phonotaxis ou le génome de la vache
le cube >> frelon rouge
Wood (boisseau-donarier) >> WOOD
le gros cube >> queen bishop

le gros cube >> la martipontine
le gros cube >> le gros cube VS katerine
le gros cube >> polar mood
jazzophone quartet >> blues for geo
jazzophone cie + tim berne >> mosaiques
jazzophone >> yellow suite
qüntêt >> vents dominants
quartethno >> tawada

le gros cube >> le gros cube VS katerine
le gros cube >> polar mood
francis et ses peintres >> la paloma
print & friends >> around k
le gros cube >> queen bishop

le gros cube >> la martipontine
le gros cube >> le gros cube VS katerine
le gros cube >> polar mood
le cube >> autorité culinaire
francis et ses peintres >> la paloma
qüntêt >> vents dominants
LPT3 >> deja 7h?
le cube >> frelon rouge
le gros cube >> queen bishop

le gros cube >> la martipontine
le gros cube >> polar mood
le gros cube >> le gros cube VS katerine
le cube >> autorité culinaire