"Fleuve" is Favre's first album for ECM in over a decade, his final up until that point being "Window Steps" (1995).It is a return for the Pierre Favre Ensemble, now containing a new line-up of Favre on percussion and drums, Wolfgang Zwiauer on bass guitar, Michel Godard on tuba and serpent, Frank Kroll on bass clarinet and soprano saxophone, Philipp Schaufelberger on guitar, Hélène Breschand on harp, and Bänz Oester on double-bass.