"Al Alba" - "at dawn" in Spanish - uses music to bring together two people who have been closely connected for a lifetime: the brothers Matthieu and Camille Saglio. The cellist Matthieu studied classical music in Rennes in Brittany and then settled in the Spanish city of Valencia. He is passionate about exploring different sound cultures and combining them with influences from jazz and world music. The singer Camille began to take a serious and passionate interest in music at the age of twelve, when he was infected by his older brother's enthusiasm for the cello. The instrument that Camille wanted to make his means of expression was his own singing voice. This is the brothers' first album together, and it has a spiritual dimension. It's about transitions and boundaries, states of flux and how that affects music and people. There is a hint of Celtic-Breton music, especially in the tendency towards melancholic minor keys. Flamenco is also present, providing a tight rhythmic framework, but also combining with the dreams and arabesques of the Mediterranean soundscape. And Mathieu Saglio's rigorous classical training gives him great compositional freedom and range as well as a particularly refined sound. Matthieu Saglio's way of working has led to great success, in particular through the creation of multi-layered, cross-border music in the flamenco crossover ensemble "Jerez-Texas" and in the trio "NES" with singer / cellist / ACT artist Nesrine, but also through the projects under his own name, both as a leader and at the center of a network of collaboration - on the ACT albums "El camino de los vientos" (2020) and "Voices" (2023). Camille Saglio is also a traveler between different worlds. The band Sôdi with flute and percussion, which he founded in Toulouse in 2003, explored world music and forged links with the music of West Africa and the Orient. Camille became part of the Manafina project, learning to play the guitar, n'goni and oud and to express himself in different languages from Bambara to Arabic and Turkish. He wrote short stories and plays, produced his own shows such as "Dis-leur que j'ai vécu" (Tell them I lived - 2010) and worked with actors and dancers from Vincent Loiseau to Didier Bardoux and Hervé Maigret. Today, he sings in an imaginary language that he creates live and that evolves in his own universe. He is able to take the listener into high counter-tenor registers, he improvises with a trumpet sound, but he can also surprise by switching to a song in English, Bambara, French or Spanish. Camille Saglio has an unmistakable style. In this way, both brothers have independently developed into poets of their genre. And finally, after years of separate experiences, they have now also come closer together musically. "Al Alba" is a program of songs that are as gentle as they are powerful. Matthieu Saglio uses his cello as a source of inspiration and opens up all kinds of spaces for his brother's voice. Sometimes he changes roles and becomes a singer himself with bowed lines. The closeness to his brother's feelings is palpable in Camille's singing. There is an interweaving of energy lines, which is also reflected in the repertoire. Camille Saglio sings Arabic poetry ("Tariq") as well as a well-known political song ("Strange Fruit"), an independent classic by Noir Désir ("Le vent nous portera" - the wind will carry us), Spanish or free melodic lines and ornaments. In one piece, the third brother Gabriel Saglio is also involved on the bass clarinet. Recorded on an island in the Loire, the album is inspired by the spirit of the river, its current and the constantly changing moods and emotions it evokes.