Tony Hymas (keyboards),
Jef Lee Johnson (guitar),
François Corneloup (saxophones),
Stokley Williams (drums, vocals)
Guest: Brother Ali (rap)

Zugzwang had a host of guest artists, but Nucular prefers the intimacy and special dynamics of the quartet for an instrumental suite and some songs that reflect the year just gone by. Blues, funk, rock, jazz, reggae are blended seamlessly together but can still astonish and surprise us! The enigmatic tenderness expressed in the song ‘Almost Saw You’ evokes the anxiety of Nuclear War.
Nevertheless, one traveller does cross the stellar path of this most vibrantly exciting of new groups, once in Minneapolis and again in Paris: Brother Ali, hip-hop musician from Minneapolis, member of the Rhymesayers and author of Shadow of the Sun and Champion EP, two ground-breaking albums in the field of rap. He tells of his adventures: his jubilatory encounter with Ursus Minor in  ‘Doin’ the Do’ and a more poignant autobiographical account in ‘Baby Come Home’.
Ursus Minor continues to steer its path between heaven and earth with renewed energy...

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Brother ali, François Corneloup, Tony Hymas, Jef Lee Johnson, Stokley Williams

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