Having been turning heads in Paris and Chicago, where the live band holds down a monthly Tuesday night residency at the pumping Mad Bar, Benito Errera and Olivier Portal's collective has finally put down a long playing EP/ mini album of luscious deep house grooves.
Multi instrumentalist and producer Portal deals in warm, intimate jazz keyboards and sassy, funky house that bristles with sensitivity.
'Show Me Love' is a severely jazz inflected offering, laden with soulful vocals and a swinging drum pattern that reflects the jazz house/ garage sounds of the early to mid Nineties.
'Chicago Nights' goes a little deeper, but is equally warming, running through your body like a shot of Havana Club. Analogue keyboards shiver down your spine before the kick drums lock into your pelvic girdle. Meanwhile a seriously twiddly guitar line veers off into the current French obsession with prog rock in a way that Phoenix would find alarming. Thankfully it's thrown into the far corners of the mix.
The curiously Scandinavian sounding 'Nordiktrak' has references that could derive from acts such as Those Norwegians, although it could equally derive from West London. A minimal deep house track that fires off a single keyboard stab.
'AIRY' for the first time reflects the disco sound we have, wrongly, come to associate with all things French. A funky little mover, the edge comes from the atmospheric minor chord washes that toy with and then flood the basic groove.
'Music and the Rhythm' is a masterful jack track, while 'The Sun's Up' introduces vibes and flute to up the jazz stakes.
If we've got to do a Gaellic comparission, then this is Air you can dance to. Which makes you wonder what kind of city this is the soundtrack to and how to move there.
