The lotus flower is beauty born from the marsh, an allegory of a confused and troubled world. Bruno Angelini's new repertoire pays homage to the ‘lotuses’ of our history – Wayne Shorter, Jane Addams, Berta Cacerès or Nelson Mandela – each of whom, in his or her own way, has worked for the common good, to preserve our planet and heal human relations. Following up on ‘Transatlantic Roots’, which honoured the counter-culture and social struggles in the United States, the core of Bruno Anglini's compositions is comprised of committed melodies that the pianist and saxophonists Sakina Abdou and Angelika Niescier perform with raw lyricism and a great deal of freedom, sometimes destructuring them with a sound and aesthetic reminiscent of blues-infused free jazz.