Tori Kudo, conductor and band leader, fuses stray elements of pop, folk, jazz, and experimental music into pieces of candid musical gestures. All songs were composed by Kudo, and he assembled nine musicians from Japan along with a handful of local French musicians to record and rehearse before playing an event in Cherbourge. 177 of those 200 songs are presented on this double CD release. The result is at turns serene, dissonant, enchanting, crisp, spacious, and maddeningly catchy.