The Cry return with The Lost Tapes, a stunning follow-up to their self-titled debut released on Gizeh last year. The Strasbourg-based trio — Christine Ott (ondes Martenot, piano), Mathieu Gabry (piano, synths), and Pierre-Loïc Le Bliguet (drums) — blend avant-garde jazz, krautrock, and contemporary classical in fearless form once again. These four unreleased tracks, improvised live in a single November 2022 session, capture the spark of that very first meeting between the three musicians.
Opening with two covers from related projects — Crossing by Snowdrops and Golden Valley by Christine Ott — The Lost Tapes flows effortlessly into two new improvisations: Oslo, a classic jazz reverie, and Épiphanie, a psychedelic, hallucinatory celebration of spontaneous creation. Each moment hums with intimacy and discovery, preserving the spirit of experimentation that defines The Cry.
Recorded live at Downtown Studios in Strasbourg and mixed by Sohlberg at Serpentine Studio, these “lost” recordings feel more like revelations. They invite listeners into the same charged space where genre dissolves and instinct takes over — a snapshot of creation in its purest form.
Three years after that fateful session, the trio reunited in Lausanne for the Interstices festival, performing pieces like Crossing and Fire of Love with the same daring chemistry. Two videos from that concert are now available, beautifully filmed by Benoit Lesieux with lights by Maxime Curvat — a visual echo of The Cry’s boundless sonic universe.