Antananarivo #[nn]

Two older gentlemen lean against a vivid orange vintage car beneath a breezy teal sky, birds wheeling overhead and a towering giraffe peering in from the right — it's an image that radiates sun-baked adventure with a quietly comic edge. Sylvain Vallée's cover art sets a wonderfully offbeat tone for this 2022 Splitter Verlag album, written by Mark Eacersall and Tanja Krämling, hinting at an unlikely road trip far from ordinary life. If the destination — Antananarivo — is any clue, the journey promises to be anything but predictable.