Olivier MESSIAEN surely never foresaw that his seven modes would set up an interaction in a freestyle conversation, between saxophones and drums, pitting seven cardinal signs against their virtues. DIPTYQUE, aka Alexandre DAVIN and Jean-Marc BACCARINI, has decided to re-appropriate and serve them, as a spontaneous music set in a space of creative freedom where anything is possible. "7" (Great Winds, 2009) includes fourteen "explorimental" tracks where intuition overrides reason. This music is an encounter, an unusual relationship, a dialogue between two committed musicians deeply involved with jazz and all forms of improvised music flowing from its source.