But there was an international dark horse in the German band Pata Masters, and they gave delightful, clear, fresh, inventive and buoyant recitals in which composition and improvisation, acoustic and electronic sounds, were unusually well integrated. ###>But there was an international dark horse in the German band Pata Masters, and they gave delightful, clear, fresh, inventive and buoyant recitals in which composition and improvisation, acoustic and electronic sounds, were unusually well integrated.