NO(w) Beauty

NO(w) Beauty is a French-American jazz quartet of Hermon Mehari, Enzo Carniel, Damien Varaillon, and Stéphane Adsuar, formed as a leaderless collective. Their name quotes Zéno Bianu's line "No beauty without silence," stylized with parentheses around the w. They blend modern jazz with ambient electronics, classical strings, and hip-hop textures. Self-titled debut arrived in 2023, followed by "(un)Seen" in 2026, named French Group of the Year by Jazz News and Jazz Magazine. Performances lean on collective interplay and shifting surprises rather than solo spotlighting.