Sometimes we encounter music that catches us unprepared. Yet it also seduces us with something unfamiliar—something difficult to define and to explain to ourselves using the usual, established ways. I encountered this phenomenon while listening to the album Live at Atelier du Plateau by a lineup called Ensemble Ensemble, consisting of Mari Kvien Brunvoll (voice, electronics), George Dumitriu (violin, viola), Eve Risser (piano, prepared piano, alto flute), Kim Myhr (guitar), and Toma Gouband (drums, percussion).