On November 24, 2025, Mexican jazz magazine Contratiempo published a review of Otsukaresama, the album by French saxophonist Grégory Sallet and his Sur Écoute Quartet, by Efraín Alavez.
What Contratiempo wrote
Un disco para escucharse con calma, quizá más de una vez y para compartir con esa gente a la que uno también quiere decirle, al final de la jornada: otsukaresama. (“An album to listen to calmly, perhaps more than once, and to share with the people you also want to tell, at the end of the day: otsukaresama.”)
Efraín Alavez, Contratiempo
The Contratiempo review
The article presents the quartet and its guests, Japanese flutist Yuriko Kimura and Indian tabla player Prabhu Edouard, and picks three tracks to enter the album: “Otsukaresama”, “Le sabre est mon refuge (coda)” and “Okinawa Matsuri”, composed by pianist Matthieu Roffé.
Read the review on Contratiempo (in Spanish)
About Otsukaresama
Otsukaresama · Grégory Sallet « Sur Écoute » Project · La Voie de la Musique Créative, Inouïe Distribution, released November 7, 2025. Grégory Sallet (saxophones, compositions), Matthieu Roffé (piano), Kevin Lucchetti (drums), Michel Molines (double bass), with guests Yuriko Kimura (flutes) and Prabhu Edouard (tablas, udu, voice). Recorded in May 2025 at Le Crescent, Mâcon.
