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Instinct 4 by Grégory Sallet
From the album
Album Title: Otsukaresama
La Voie de la Musique créative
Released: 2025
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About the Album
“Instinct 4” captures the raw, spontaneous energy at the heart of Otsukaresama, the latest album by French saxophonist and composer Grégory Sallet. This track features a powerful and unpredictable exchange between drummer Kevin Lucchetti and Indian tabla master Prabhu Edouard, unfolding over a shifting 7/4 groove. Sallet’s alto saxophone weaves through this percussive storm with lyrical precision, while Michel Molines anchors the piece on double bass with subtle tension and pulse.
Rather than imposing a strict compositional framework, “Instinct 4” thrives on interplay—each musician responding in real-time to the evolving texture. The piece blends contemporary European jazz aesthetics with rhythmic traditions from the Indian subcontinent, offering a dialogue between cultures as much as between instruments.
Part ritual, part improvisational detonation, “Instinct 4” is both a showcase of technical command and a testament to twenty years of musical trust within Sallet’s Sur Écoute Quartet.
Tracks
1. Otsukaresama – 4:50 2. La plateforme – 6:55 3. L’arbre cryptoméria – 4:37 4. Les gorgones du boulanger – 6:06 5. Jugalbandi – 4:42 6. Instinct 3 – 6:11 7. Instinct 4 – 6:34 8. Instinct 5 – 0:52 9. Le sabre est mon refuge (coda) – 7:06 10. Okinawa Matsuri – 3:54
Personnel
Grégory Sallet
saxophonematthieu roffé
pianoMichel Molines
bass, acousticKevin Lucchetti
drums
Prabhu Edouard
tablasYuriko Kimura
fluteDate featured
March 6, 2026
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