Matt Berninger – Serpentine Prison

Vinyl LP pressing. 2020 release. A mainstay of the French jazz scene, Algeria-born bassist Michel Benita’s project, Looking At Sounds, introduces his revised quartet: Matthieu Michel (flugelhorn) and Philippe Garcia (drums) from his band, Ethics, plus completed Jozef Dumoulin (keyboard). Dumoulin’s swirling sounds inspired Benita to write the evocative new music. With a bewitching cover version of Antonio Carlos Jobim’s “Inutil Paisagem”, an improvised “Cloud To Cloud” and an interpretation of Jule Styne’s “Never Never Land”.