Nout

If prejudices still exist that certain “male” music genres cannot be played by women, the French trio Nout certainly dispels this. Flutist Delphine Joussein, harpist Rafaëlle Rinaudo and drummer Blanche Lafuente here present a wild, loud and powerful punk jazz which is on a par with all male colleagues – more surprising considering the highly unusual, more classical instrumentation used. To top it all, Nout‘s rebellious noise escapades are not only surprising, and a little bit daring, but also intelligent and enjoyable at the same time. It therefore comes as no great surprise, that they won the European Jazz Network’s EJN Zenith Award in February.