Think about ‘music’ and ‘Europe’, you’ll end up hearing Charpentier’s Te Deum ringing out in some corner of your good ol’ collective memory. Leave this trumpeting mass to Eurovision, and watch Europe flourish elsewhere. In this Garden Of Silences, for example. This Franco-European quartet, imagined by Clément Janinet with Arve Henriksen, Ambre Vuillermoz and Robert Lucaciu, is a fine example of cross-border inventiveness. Very active (International Jazz Platform, Jazzahead, Scandinavia, Estonia, Hungary, Italy, Germany), the violinist extends the aesthetics of his previous projects, such as Ornette Under the Repetitive Skies and La Litanie des Cimes, to put this new repertoire in the hands of musicians from other cultures. The violin enters into dialogue with the trumpet, accordion and double bass, and frees itself from the limits of repertoires. Buxtehude and Dowland debate with the Swedish nyckelharpa, Marin Marais with virulent improvisation and microtonal music, folk dances and songs from the oral tradition with contemporary chamber music. The band’s new album will be released on BMC Records.