Paul Collins, Patrick Müller, Thierry Müller, Quentin Rollet

* Digipack CD edition * On a brilliantly sunny mid-December afternoon in 2023, Parisian experimental music veterans, Patrick Müller (trAce Label, Orchestre Inachevé), Thierry Müller (Illitch, Ruth) and Quentin Rollet (Nurse With Wound, David Grubbs) convened in the Bastille studio of Paul Collins (P_LAB, Glenn Branca) to make music, to make sound, to raise hell, to record. "Correspondant à une lettre" is the result of that meeting of the minds and fingers. Patrick, the go-to recording engineer for the Parisian avant-garde scene, was at the dials from behind his droning bank of boutique synthesisers. Younger brother, Thierry, was plugged into his electric guitar and pedals, while also fingering his percussive Microphonic Soundboard. Rollet alternated between blowing sweet sounds into and out of his two saxophones, and teasing more aggressive tones out of his hand-held electronics. Collins kept the conversation going through the polyglotism of his Moogs. "Correspondant à une lettre" is a distillation of that afternoon’s session: at once melodic and noisy, introspective and out there, hot and cold. This recording is a fine example of what improvised music can sound like on a brilliantly sunny, early winter afternoon in Paris in the waning days of the first quarter of the 21st century.