Kouma by Kouma

“The Kouma is no longer just a Russian river, but music that floods and radiates the green meadows of your senses that did not expect to be drowned in this sudden and captivating flood.” // Perte et Fracas

“This CD is Kouma’s very first record and it already amazes us with its maturity and originality. Main reason for this: the trio’s really unusual line-up since it houses a baritone saxophone and a baritone guitar too – Kouma’s sound is as uncommon as personal, worked as powerful and finally not always so (free) jazz as that.” // Heavy Mental

“First album for this excellent Lyon trio, which in its own way combines references as diverse as Zu, Morphine or the Flying Luttenbachers. The group moves forward with a bang, without worrying too much about influences to bring us to its own confluence.” // K-Fuel

Hundred miles away from the consecrated jazz’s cannons, although mostly alien from the independent rock spheres, Kouma loves nothing more than to pace the crossroad stages, those where labels are torn apart, where underground appears in broad daylight. So yes, Kouma is a little bit like the back of the cellar that is rebelling, the slapping psycho trash rock.