David Thompson was born in Dorset, England. His first memories are of his Father’s powerful baritone as he sang and worked the plot of land from which they lived, and the piano lessons his Mother gave him when he was small. He has been a sailor, journalist, photographer and traveller, but has never stopped playing. In 80s Berlin and Stockholm he performed with the dance/live plastic arts groups Trattista and Extremejonction, and in 1987, was solo pianist at the multimedia festival Semi di Luce at Salerno, Italy. In 90s London he helped found and played with The Doctors of Dub, a live psychedelic audiovisual collective that developed a cult following among British dub reggae lovers. He has lived in France for 10 years, and teaches piano, violin and harmony.

Gerard Frykman, half-Swedish and half-English, first studied classical violin in Oxford during the 60s. Obsessed his whole life by the nature of sound, he used to go out to do a gig and come home having traded his instrument for someone else's. After a few years of this eccentric behaviour, he became a multi-instrumentalist. During the last two decades, he has focussed on the double bass, working towards an ever more distilled and minimalist playing style, in particular as a member of the visionary Ariégois-Charentais group ‘Rhaman.’ With Zalmoxis Trio he is occasionally persuaded to abandon the bass in order to play Oud, and the scandinavian Hardinger fiddle

Vincent Chalot was born and brought up in Normandy, France. He has spent thirty years meticulously developing a drum and percussion system, a mechanism and style of playing, and a musical philosophy, of his very own. A percussionist since childhood, he began working with African rhythms and studied the major musical movements of the period: Coltrane and Miles Davis in the States and bands such as Magma in France. He brings with him a lucid polyrhythmic technique, as well as the huge textural and dynamic range of his unique and original instrument, phenomena already known to the Ariégois public through his performances with ‘Sponco’, a free improvisation collective, which he founded in 1999.

Special Guest Steve Gresson (New Zealand.) Trumpet. As a teenager, his life was transformed by listening to Miles Davis. For fifteen years he toured Autralasia and Asia as leader and composer of ‘The World’s Klang’ before coming to live in the South of France.