And that makes three! After Streetwise in 2005 and Breakfast in Babylon in 2009, here is The Day After, giving Olivier Temime and his Volunteered Slaves the opportunity to celebrate ten years of a band whose name is an explicit tribute to Roland Kirk, and more specifically to his Volunteered Slavery, recorded at the Newport Festival in 1968.

The meaning of this "day after," meanwhile, lies in an eponymous concert scheduled for December 21, 2012, just before the end of the world predicted by a few crackpots under the influence, holed up in Bugarach or elsewhere. A party called VSOP, for Volunteered Slaves Organic Party—you couldn't make it up.

And then… it seems the apocalypse didn't quite materialize, which—thankfully—allowed the saxophonist and his bandmates to continue their vibrant adventure. Good news indeed! Not to mention the chance for us survivors to revel in their music, nourished by the wellspring of jazz, funk, world music, Afrobeat, and many other high-energy influences.

- CITIZEN JAZZ-