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This serendipitous encounter between two composers and multi-instrumentalists, Alessio La Luce and Mark Lockett, follows a flow of ideas and obsessions, like the confluence of the two rivers, the Loire and the Vienne, their adopted territory. Instinctively averse to pigeonholing, Alessio La Luce from Sicily has worked in many different theatrical and visual arts collaborations, in chamber music ensembles, tango groups and free jazz. An innovative teacher and conductor, he is currently director of a music school in the Loire Valley. Mark Lockett, originally from Liverpool, is a pianist, gamelan player and ethnomusicologist with a life-long involvement with experimental music. Around soprano sax, piano, keyboards, percussion, and electronics their music mixes new compositions, free improvisation, tango, minimalism and soundtracks for silent films. If geography has any bearing on style, then perhaps the renowned English humour and sang-froid combined with Italian romanticism is part of that universe.