To say that soprano saxophonist Émile Parisien has earned his stripes of national pride seems a bit of an understatement, given his twenty-year career punctuated by remarkable collaborations. Listing them all would be like plotting out a map of a jazz which is both welcoming and demanding, open to adventure and sounds from across the world. The multi-award winner is doubling down on this approach with FLOATING, a new project which was painstakingly put together during two years in residence at the Théâtre de la Cité Internationale. Through FLOATING, Émile Parisien has surrounded himself with three exceptional musicians: Yaron Herman, an Israeli pianist in Paris who bobs between jazz, rock, electro, and classical; Linda May Han Oh, a Malaysian-born, New York-based bassist who performs with the quartet Pat Metheny while also pursuing her own projects; and Prabhu Edouard, an emblematic figure of Indian percussion in France who has collaborated with musicians as varied as Jordi Savall and Jeff Mills and whose tablas give FLOATING’s work an unrivalled voice and hypnotic softness. The quartet’s spiritual and mesmerising music is ready to be discovered on stage, ahead of the highly anticipated album release coming in September.