20 years after the release of their first release for De WERF, « Racines du Ciel » (Roots of Heaven), Rêve d’Elephant Orchestra is joining the Igloo catalogue for their fifth album and a new line-up. On bass, we find the youthful Louis Frères, first heard with the Metropolitan Quartet (alongside Antoine Pierre and Igor Gehenot). This musician with a deep sound brings a superb composition to the Dance Dance repertoire. The young German trumpet-player Christian Altehülshorst also joins the team of elephants. A virtuoso of incredible sensibility, he enables the group to explore new frontiers.
But the band has not forgotten its roots and habits that make Rêve d’éléphant Orchestra a group that identifiable from the very first notes!
To quote Didier Levallet introducing the band at the Jazz Campus En Cluni- sois; his words are still totally valid when talking about “Dance Dance”:
«This quite big orchestra of seven musicians produces music that is at the same time of great exuberance, of great generosity, of great free- dom, of great rigour in writing too, very pictorial, very joyful; it really is an orchestra that gives pleasure. It is music that surprises you in a good way. It’s very open to many things, a lot of influences that go from one thing to another completely naturally. I do not find it artificial at all. It’s not world music. It’s still jazz because it’s the way you play it that counts, regardless of the source.»

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