Jazz Articles about Alula

Alula: Anemokory

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
November 6, 2007

Saxophonists Christophe Lehoucq and Philippe Razol formed Alula in 1998 to play compositions by the former; after nearly ten years of toil, Anémokory is their début release. Alula plays well-behaved latter-day fusion, the sound decidedly, but not unpleasantly, seventies retro. (Witness the jangly guitar on “Les 7 marches" or some of the synthesizer washes in the background throughout.) Most of the compositions on Anémokory are memorable in the best tradition of the genre. The ...