Although it cannot be missing inside an orchestra or a chamber music ensemble due to the recognisable timbre and the primary role in filling middle tones of harmonies, whose peculiarity was known amidst legendary musical geniuses, viola has never reached the notoriety of other members of its family such as cello or violin. One of the possible explanation could be its dimension as it's smaller than a cello, but bigger than a violin, so that lutists must customize it after taking musician's measurements. Therefore even compositions for this instrument, particularly for soloist, are quite limited, but I'm wondering how this duo of skilled violists, made up of Frantz Loriot and Cyprien Busolini, managed to go beyond "limits" of their instruments by extracting uncommon sounds during their funny interplay. The nervous and slow scrubbing on the overstressed strings and strident noises they make with their bows after a dozing opening, which sounds quite similar to a snoring, could recall to mind a fierce dispute between shouting people, before storms gradually die down, just like their instruments have been completely exhausted by heated quarrel. The second track is even more funny and bizarre: in the first part it seems they are on the point of destroying their instruments by turning pegs or sawing strings till the moment they almost give voice to their poor violas, which look like a dog in the act of baying and yapping while forcedly dragged on leashes. The third and final track starts with a noise which could let imagine someone while striking a match, but before and during their interplay blazes up (...and it's so confusing their way of treating viola that you could think they're playing an electric guitar or a distorted shuriken!), they fiddle with (or maybe I'd better say they put on endurance teest) their violas.