Think of them as France’s answer to Zappa’s Mothers of Invention. Le Sacre du Tympan is a stunning big band of virtuosos driven with gusto by bassist/composer Fred Pallem. Their mission: to slip the popular into the scholarly, the scholarly into the popular: imagine Ennio Morricone, James Bond, classic rock, carny music and André Popp wrestling like cats in a bag. Critics call it wacky you’ll call it wholly original and brilliant!
