Ainsi parlait Hominina is the debut album by ZHORHANN, a French band working across rock in opposition, math rock and a cartoonish progressive jazz rock, following an earlier matrix project called "La théorie des cordes". The instrumental music draws on a wide range of influences, from Frank Zappa, Mr. Bungle, Secret Chiefs 3, John Zorn and Naked City to Nirvana, Tex Avery, Pantera, Steve Coleman and Tigran Hamasyan. The studio line-up is Vincent Blandeau (bass), Heiva Arnal (drums) and Mathieu Torres (guitar, composition, mastering), with mixing by Hugo Lemercier at La Mercery studio in Mirepoix; the live trio features Paul Bordenave (bass) and Frédéric Cavallin (drums) alongside Torres. The album consists of eight pieces dissecting modern humans on the eve of their extinction, exploring Sapiens' behaviour, beauty, poetry, contradictions and self-inflicted decline. The title, a play on Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, frames the work as a philosophical musical tale about the erosion of critical thought under consumerism and dogmatic individualism.