Pierre Bastien – Louis Laurain / C.N.T

Pierre Bastien and Louis Laurain love to play. Their project is based on an acronym with multiple meanings: CNT can just as easily stand for cornet à piston, as for Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, the Spanish libertarian trade union. CNT is, they say, “a group of two humans who play the cornet à pistons, a musical instrument commonly and scarcely abusively referred to as the trumpet”. They work together to make it polyphonic, harmonic, noisy… Here, no medieval or military ringing, but rather an orchestra, with its striking rhythms and swaying basses. For Louis and Pierre play the trumpet with four hands, and sometimes even without their mouths.