THE OCTOPUS

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We are Elisabeth, Nora, Hugues and Nathan. We are Cellists based in Paris, Cologne and Berlin. We love our instruments. We love music. We love improvisation!

We met in March 2013 and came together to improvise in Cologne. Four cellists who had never played as a group before. One might expect a homogeneous, ego-driven mess of sound. As it turned out, we’re all pretty generous people and something very special happened that evening. So, in a quite organic way:

OCTOPUS WAS BORN

Why Octopus? Think about it…

First: animals are, in general, cool. I mean, have you ever seen an Octopus maneuvering across the ocean floor, curling and slinging his eight arms with impressive virtuosity?

And how does that make us an Octopus? Perhaps it’s obvious: we have eight arms, too, but FOUR brains.

Like some sort of musical Voltron, however, these arms come from different places with different backgrounds. One arm plays jazz, one plays read more...
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