Tip! Edition of 300 copies. François Tusques needs no introduction to serious listeners of European free jazz. His 1965 Free Jazz album - recorded with Bernard Vitet, Michel Portal, Beb Guérin, and François Jeanneau - helped establish Paris as a vital center for the transatlantic avant-garde, laying groundwork for the city's role as spiritual home to visiting American firebrands like Don Cherry, Sunny Murray, and Clifford Thornton. His subsequent work with Barney Wilen (Le Nouveau Jazz, 1967), his radical solo statements (Piano Dazibao, Dazibao N°2), and the founding of the Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra in 1971 cemented his position as one of Europe's most politically committed and musically restless improvisers.

This quartet began in 2014 with their first album Le Chant Du Jubjub (Improvising Beings, 2015) - a reinvention of Lewis Carroll's poetry that marked Tusques' return to song-form after years of instrumental exploration. Japanese trumpeter Itaru Oki was the perfect foil: a founding member of the seminal Tokyo experimental unit ESSG alongside Masahiko Satō and Masahiko Togashi, Oki had moved to Paris in 1974 and became deeply embedded in Alan Silva's IACP project and the broader European free music scene. His warm, questing tone and custom-built horns (some with bells at impossible angles) made him an unmistakable voice.

Accordionist Claude Parle - childhood friend of Jac Berrocal and co-founder of the legendary Sens' Music Meeting festival - brings decades of noise-technique research to the ensemble. And singer-actress Isabel Juanpera, Tusques' longtime collaborator since their tango explorations of the 1990s (La Cruz del Sur, 1996), provides the theatrical and vocal anchor.

Oui Mais' 68! - Maybe 68? is a meditation on the May '68 revolt and its resonances in contemporary times. Written compositions and free improvisation intertwine, text and music in constant dialogue. Tragically, this stands as one of Oki's final recordings before his death in August 2020. Ni-Vu-Ni-Connu releases this document as a testament to a unique creative partnership and a musical engagement with history that refuses easy nostalgia.