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Sorry, this entry is only available in FR.Sultana révèlera son nouveau single "Tierra Madre" à l'occasion de sa sortie en digital le 10 juin 2022 chez Trilogie Halexander / InOuïe Distribution.  Ce titre est extrait du 3e album de l'artiste, "Uni Vers Elle", qui sortira à l'automne 2022. "Tierra Madre" est un hommage à notre Terre, notre mère nourricière, la "Pachamama", protectrice, symbole d’abondance et de vie. Un texte en français et espagnol en référence aux influences latines de Sultana. Un voyage sensoriel où le cœur de l’Amérique latine et de l’Afrique vibre aux échos des chants d’oiseaux, de sons organiques et de la voix envoûtante et solaire de la chanteuse.   Auteure, compositrice, interprète, Sultana vous invite au voyage au gré de son univers métissé. Un périple entre Chanson et World Music insufflé par une combinaison subtile de rythmes insulaires et par sa voix chaleureuse et sensuelle. De son vrai prénom, dixit "la Reine", symbole de la féminité, du partage et de la générosité, Sultana chante en français, espagnol avec une touche d'arabe, la femme libre, moderne et indépendante, qui aspire au moment présent avec un optimisme rayonnant et une énergie débordante. Le troisième opus de Sultana, « UNI VERS ELLE », titre hautement symbolique, est une ode à la féminité, une reconnexion avec la Nature, notre Terre-Mère ; un lien fort au féminin sacré, à l'écoute de son cœur, de son intuition, de sa puissance intérieure pour s’accomplir pleinement. Un voyage à l’intérieur de soi pour être en harmonie avec le monde extérieur. Dix compositions en français et espagnol (dont un duo en arabe) pour remercier la Vie, l'Amour. Elle aborde des thèmes comme la liberté, l'éveil, l’amitié, la transmission. « UNI VERS ELLE » marque le lien indispensable entre le féminin et le masculin, le Yin et le Yang dont on a tous besoin, deux forces complémentaires, un mouvement perpétuel, une dualité universelle ! Le travail collectif est très prégnant dans ce projet, chacun des musiciens ayant apporté sa touche créative. Ses acolytes : Fernanda Primo et Manuel Delgado (guitare), Désiré NKouandou (percussions, choeurs), Barbara Felettig et Pepe (basse), Romain Chenard (claviers) et Jann Halexander (piano), Sandra Ellama (flûte traversière, percussions), Skander Guetari pour un duo latin-oriental et d’autres collaborations de tous les horizons pour des rythmes chaloupés en accord avec le chant mélodieux de Sultana. De l’Occident à l’Orient, artiste résolument sans frontières dans sa musique comme dans les thématiques qu'elle évoque, Sultana noue un lien entre tous ces mondes, le résultat ne peut être que « UNI VERS ELLE ».

Helena Recalde will unveil her new album « Karishina » on its digital release May 27, 2022 and physical release on June 10, 2022 on FincaSud / Les Artpie'Cultrices / InOuïe Distribution. This new work will be presented live on stage on Friday June 17, 2022 at Point Fort d'Aubervilliers (produced by Villes des Musiques du Monde). « Karishina » is: - Helena Recalde: voice, bass and double bass - Fady Farah: piano - Vanesa García: drums and percussions The guests are: - Curi Cachimuel: pan flutes - Samir Homsi: Oriental percussions - « Singa » Choir (directed by Dennis Lethuillier) - Kiala: guitar   “Karishina” is an album in which Helena Recalde and her musicians alternately perform original compositions, a traditional South American song “No Valentin” and a theme from the jazz repertoire “Afro Blue”. Within this musical universe, the nostalgia of Andean melodies mixes with the piquant joy of Afro Pacific rhythms, passing through jazz tones and giddy improvisations, all embellished with textures of nature and committed titles.  Karishina means -woman unfit for chores-. It is an insult, a mockery only addressed to women. "This word resonates in me like a strength, a quality and I would like with this album pay a tribute to people who resist and refuse to submit" H. Recalde

Meïkhâneh will unveil their new album "Chants du dedans, chants du dehors" on June 10, 2022 on Cas Particuliers / Buda Musique / Socadisc. Meïkhâneh is: Maria Laurent (vocals, tovshuur lute, banjo, transverse flute) Johanni Curtet (throat singing, khöömii, guitar, dombra lute, morin khuur fiddle, mouth's harps) Milad Pasta (vocals, zarb, daf, udu drum, riqq, additional percussions) Guest musicians: Pauline Willerval (gadulka, cello) Dylan James (double bass)   Five years after La Silencieuce (Cas Particuliers/Buda Musique 2017), Meïkhâneh confirm its Persian, Mongolian and European influences of its music, at the crossroads of an Imaginary Folk and World Music. The trio explores interiority and exteriority, the cocoon and the vast world, what is felt and what is said. A call to space, travel, nature... This new album offers 13 songs that are both luminous and intimate, earthy and vibrant. Sung in Mongolian, Persian, Portuguese, Greek, French and imaginary language, the Songs from Inside, Songs from Outside deliver limpid, deep melodies, dancing rhythms, in a setting of plucked, rubbed strings, between earth and sky.

The Tambor Y Canto Company will unveil their new album « La Segunda » on its digital release May 27, 2022 and physical release on June 27, 2022 on Quart de Lune / UVM Distribution / Idol. This new work will be presented live on stage on Thursday June 9, 2022 at 360 Paris Music Factory (Paris). On the album "LA SEGUNDA", the Tambor y Canto Company blends jazz with the numerous kinds of traditional music from South America and the Caribbean. Four master percussionists sing, dance, recite, strike their drums, eager to share with you the richness of ancestral songs and rhythms. The Tambor Y Canto Company is: Simon Bolzinger: artistic direction, piano, arrangements, compositions Rocco Sedano: danse, percussions from Argentina Patinho Axé: songs, percussions from Brazil Julio Molina Perez: songs, percussions from Cuba Daniel Ochoa Licero: songs, percussions from Colombia Olivier Temine: saxophones Willi Quiko: double bass, bass   The Tambor Y Canto Company and Simon Bolzinger: The Tambor Y Canto Company was founded in 2013 in Marseille during the 10th Rencontres festival of the same name. It blends jazz with the many kinds of traditional musics from South America and the Caribbean, under the direction of pianist Simon Bolzinger. Pianist, composer, arranger, Simon Bolzinger has a background in classical and jazz (having trained with Magali Souriau and Guy Longnon), in addition to his scientific career (with Jean-Claude Risset). He is passionate about traditional music from South America and the Caribbean, which he transcribes on piano or rewrites for orchestra, always respecting tradition and striving for authenticity. In 1989 he went to live in Venezuela where he performed for two years. Artistic director of the PICANTE Association in Marseille since 1993, he has organized the "Tambor y Canto Meetings" every year since 2005, as well as international exchanges which then get produced as shows and albums. La Segunda: The blending is done by means of the piano, the saxophone and the double bass competing each in their virtuosity in a back and forth from one country to another, that finally arrives at a new unclassifiable music somewhere between jazz and traditional music, one made up of rhythms of African origin, Amerindian melodies, texts from ancient Europe and contemporary creation. The debut CD "Tambor y Canto" (Picante 2017) took us to Peru in its day. In 2021, "La Segunda" takes us to Colombia. The staple music: Cuba, Brazil and Argentina are always along for the ride. And the caravel sets sail! Escorted by the surdos and timbaos of Bahia on one hand, the batás and shekeres of Havana on the other, the piano leaves Barranquilla and its cumbia for the Quebrada de Humahuaca, where it will dance the carnavalito. The carnival just has to hold steady! Even if it gets cancelled worldwide, the drums are there, ready to be taken out on the street, as Sergio Sampaio sang in 1974. Because the artists in the Tambor y Canto Company also know how to express their views on current events and don’t hesitate when it comes to denouncing the corruption of the political-financial-religious system on this new album.

Horzines Stara will unveil their new album « Bords de Terre - Dubhe » on its digital release May 20, 2022 and physical release June 17, 2022 on Vlad Productions / InOuïe Distribution. This new work will be presented live on stage on Thursday June 30, 2022 at Studio de L’Ermitage (Paris).   « Bords de terre is the sandy beach that ends and welcomes the passage of all borders, the opening of possibilities for migrations and the great stellar void, without firm ground to cling to, without roots to plant. The album aim is to question the borders in all senses, whether they are those of the musical genre, of the structure, of the ages, of the emotions, of the sensations. Duhbe is a constellation and a dreamlike point of view that we want to bring to the world.  With four polyphonic voices supported by acoustic instruments, the traditional style takes hold. By installing evolving melodic-rhythmic loops, the progressive aspect resonates with the traditional. The pop bass of the cello mingles with the mixed melodies of the guitar; the percussion ranging from the djembe to the cave tom ricochets on the rhythmic accents of the bellow shake accordion: Horzines Stara plays with pleasure running from one style to another. The inspiration comes from artists such as Khadja Bonet, Dikanda, Las Lloronas and Fatoumata Diawara. The vocal harmonies, characteristic of the group, affirm this poetic freedom. In our creative process, freedom is paramount. Musical roles are exchanged. We seek to put our relationship with the cycles of life into music. Birth, growth, old age, death, night, dawn, zenith, dusk... Cyclesrepeat themselves and sometimes break. After four years of research, the album Bords de terre - Dubhe was born thanks to a collaboration with Fanny Massière, the studio Zéphirand the label Vlad. It is our musical testimony, our herbarium. » Horzines Stara

Lynn Adib and Marc Buronfosse will unveil their new album « Nearness » on its digital release May 6 and physical (vinyl) release October 2022 on Arts Culture Europe / InOuïe Distribution. This new work will be presented live on stage on Wednesday June 15, 2022 at Studio de L’Ermitage (Paris).   The duo was born through the summer of 2020 during an improvised and last minute gig on the island of Paros, like a window that suddenly opened in the middle of the pandemic, crystallising the desire to make music for an audience eager for sounds and vibrations. This concert was a memorable moment for the duo, as well as for the audience. The magic worked immediately and convinced them to continue this duo, and later consider this project of a common album. In order to enrich this duo on a few tracks of the record, Lynn and Marc invited other musicians: Jasser Haj Youssef on viola d'amore, Rishab Prasanna on the bansuri flute and Mosin Kawa on tabla, as well as the male choir Antifoniko Melos, one of the most renowned Byzantine choirs in Greece. Lynn and Marc decided to record their duo during the winter of 2021 at the peak of the pandemic. From the start, they wanted to name the album "Nearness", in this climate of confinement and isolation that we were experiencing at the time, where we had the feeling that we were gradually moving away from each other. They started to meet very regularly to build the repertoire of the album: song proposals, tests of compositions, which musicians to invite on the album... From week to week the album took shape thanks to these very intense exchanges. Having no scheduled concerts and tours, they were totally focused on this creation. They decided to record part of the album with an Orthodox choir, as Lynn had learned to sing in the choir of the Orthodox Church in Damascus. It was a dream for her! They contacted the Antifoniko Melos choir from Athens, one of the best Byzantine choirs in Greece, and went to record in June 2021 in a church in Athens, a Byzantine church where the choir sings regularly. Lynn and Marc then asked viola d'amore player Jasser Haj Youssef to be part of the trip. Four tracks were recorded with the choir as well as two trio improvisations that appear on the album. Then in December 2021, we completed the recording of the duo in a studio, in the Paris region, where they recorded eight tracks including one with two Indian master musicians: Rishab Prasanna on the bansuri flute and Mosin Kawa on tabla. Lynn and Marc had set several objectives with the sound of this album: to be close to the other, to touch the soul, to enlarge the space... The voice and the bass combine, the Orient and jazz speak to each other. Here, melody, rhythm and strings, those of the voice, those of the bass, those of the viola d'amore, the bansouri and the tabla. This album will take you on an initiatory journey from the Middle East, particularly Syria, to the West through Greece. From personal compositions sung in Arabic, Syriac and Greek with the Byzantine choir Antifoniko Melos, to two covers of Joni Mitchell and Radiohead, and two jazz standards sung in Arabic and English, the journey ends with a composition by Lynn Adib sung in French.

Maher Beauroy will unveil his new album « Insula » on its digital release April 29, 2022 and physical release May 13, 2022 on Tropiques Atrium / Baco Distrib. This new work will be presented live on stage on Thursday June 16, 2022 at Café de la Danse (Paris).   INSULA With INSULA, the Martinican composer and pianist Maher Beauroy takes us on a musical journey between the Maghreb and the West Indies, drawing inspiration from Frantz Fanon, who marked several generations of anti-colonialist thought. Insula was started as a trio in 2016 at the initiative of Maher Beauroy and Redha Benabdallah, the oud player and Franco-Algerian musicologist. Maher Beauroy here brings together on stage an orchestra full of young musicians to take part in a second phase, one rich in new compositions featuring vocals, texts by Frantz Fanon and traditional Afro-Caribbean instruments.   MAHER BEAUROY Pianist, author, composer, performer from Martinique, he turned to jazz and contemporary music after finishing a solid classical training. Trained at SERMAC, a training center created by Aimé Césaire, in Martinique and at the University of Paris Sorbonne, he earned his Diploma in Musical Studies at the Maurice Ravel Conservatory. In 2014 he enrolled in the prestigious Berklee College Of Music (Boston, USA) from which he graduated in 2017. Following the EP Nèg’Zagonal, he released his debut album WASHA to great critical acclaim.

Les Fils Canouche will unveil their new album « Nagori » on its digital release April 29 and physical release May 20, 2022 on Vlad Productions / InOuïe Distribution. This new work will be presented live on stage on Thursday June 16, 2022 at Studio de L’Ermitage (Paris).   An original, obsessing and grandiose approach of world music. Both familiar and baffling : Les Fils Canouche break the codes. These exceptional musicians bring their different universe and avant-gardist talent in an atypical mix not to mention their outstanding composition. Striving to explore acoustic energies the band concentrates on World Music, Gypsy Jazz or Latin Music. With very special guests, Minimo Garay & Javier Estrella with the percussion instruments, Mohamed Abozerky & Hussam Aliwat with the oud, Les Fils Canouche open now the gates of world music and naturally change the Oriental, Gypsies or Latin sonorities. Everything is meant to reach out to people’s heart, a sweet reflection of Hyang-Hi Kim’s painting used as the main cover of their album. Mixing up various styles and breaking the codes of World Music is a sheer goal upon this 6th album. Entirely recorded in Paris during a situation of health crisis, it did not prevent the band from creating to give every song a taste of magic and merge of styles. Creativity and great talent explain how Les Fils Canouche are able to give a whole artistic universe that knows no limitations and that pushes to passion and curiosity.

Soadan will unveil their new album « Pieds nus » on its digital release April 29 and physical release May 20, 2022 on Tinker Label / Foudrage / Socadisc. This new work will be presented live on stage on Wednesday June 8, 2022 at Studio de L’Ermitage (Paris).   In this new album "Pieds Nus", Soadan invite us to listen to their music, impregnated with their travel memories and encounters they made in West Africa over the last four years. Band of 3 multi-instrumentalists and singers, Soadan offers us a sound that navigates between traditional Afro culture and modern music fusion. You will find here, as in their previous albums, their love for Creole Blues, Maloya Fusion, Afro-Mandingue, Afrobeat and Gnawa music, dedicated to committed lyrics. These text songs written in French send us images and metaphors such as sea and islands, trees, nature beauty and themes such as knowledge transmission, values sharing and immigration. Soadan draws its inspiration from the 1970s music of African groups (funk, Congolese rumba, high life, Mandingue...). The Maloya of Alain Peters and Danyèl Waro are an incredible source of inspiration for the membres. This is what makes Soadan so unique.

David Aubaile and Julien Tekeyan will unveil their new album « HiMA » on its digital release April 15, 2022 and physical release on May 20, 2022 on Profile-on-air / UVM Distribution / Idol. This new work will be presented live on stage on Wednesday April 13, 2022 at Le Hasard Ludique (Paris). HiMA is music with "organic" entirely live looping between two instruments, between two accomplices, in this case David Aubaile, a magnificent virtuoso of the piano and the flute (here on the piano / keyboards / FX) and Julien Tekeyan (on the drums / percussions / looping). I would be happy to send you a copy of the album and any other additional information (visuals, press kit) for announcements and/or interviews. HiMA is their escape, a method of expression and improvising together, of attaching themselves to the sole constraint of being curious and improvising as known people on unknown paths. They start from a word to make a sentence, from a sound to compose a piece, from one rhythm to build more; they distort, loop and loop again, like a living exploration of sound. So much so that HiMA is rooted here to overflow there, and that jazz improvisation meets energy that is sometimes electro, sometimes contemporary or even pop. Naming their duo HiMA, from the Armenian "now", David Aubaile and Julien Tekeyan perform with musical expression and the vitality, risk and commitment of necessary in improvisation. HiMA brings to life the concept of immediacy within improvised instrumental music. The idea of this duo is a musical expression with a very open approach. Where improvisation and virtuosity are often synonymous with jazz, David and Julien wish to share their music in a universal way. One of their Tracks, for example, is called 'the Avengers', a reference to Sydney Newman and Leonard White’s TV Serie 'The Avengers' (« Chapeau Melon et bottes de cuir » in French). Unlike projects that present pre-produced elements on stage, HiMA is a real-time creative experience that becomes a show in and of itself. It is a joyful and trusting experience for an audience tired of inert performances and ready to receive the emotional exposure of the two musicians.A declaration of love of freedom, space, plasticity and pleasure, a true musical epicureanism, HiMA can also mix its keyboards, percussions and loops with other disciplines, and shape a common scenic gesture with dance, image morphing, painting, sculpture or poetry.The guest artists on the album (Sandra Nkake, Yan Péchin, Kaabi Kouyate) also committed themselves to the art of creative, constructive improvisation of coherent and conceptual tracks.

Dettmar Quartet will unveil their new album « Escales » on its release May 6, 2022 on Musique et Équilibre / InOuïe Distribution. This new work will be presented live on stage on Thursday May 3, 2022 at Le Studio de L’Ermitage (Paris). In this new adventure, Guillaume Dettmar's music is influenced by the aesthetics of Avishai Cohen, Ibrahim Maalouf, Dhafer Youssef, Anouar Brahem and even Orner Klein and Chai Maestro, among others. It is dynamic instrumental music with harmonies enriched by jazz, drifting through improvised music and dreamlike vocals, one that encourages travel and uses different Mediterranean languages (Arabic and Hebrew). "Escales is a creative project, a journey through the different influences that have shaped me since I started dedicating myself to music. Viscerally, I carve out a part of Mediterranean culture associated with my work as a classical and contemporary musician and fill it with an overture to jazz and improvised music.” Guillaume Dettmar Having formed bands with klezmer and Mediterranean influences (Manguina, Paris Klezmer Band, United Colors of Méditerranée), Guillaume Dettmar has incorporated jazz into his compositions for this new quartet. The "Escales" project has grown out of the composer and violinist playing together in rhythmic improvisations and melodies. They are accompanied by three artists from the world of jazz and improvised music: Alexandre Jouravsky on piano, François Laizeau on drums and Bernard Cochin on double bass. Guillaume creates original compositions halfway between Mediterranean music (Spain, Maghreb, Greece, Middle East) and jazz. He has integrated two types of song into his repertoire - a medieval one (in the Muwashshah tradition), which dates back to between the 8th and 13th century, in Arabic: “Lamma bada yatathana” and to continue in this Muwashshah tradition, he has added a self composed song in Hebrew: “Hasahmaïm bakhou bishvili” featuring the same themes, also in this tradition of poetry. The techniques employed on the "Escales" project are based on series, rhythms, suites and ornamentation. Also inspired by Middle Eastern maqām (quarter tone mode), this music is based on poly-rhythms, irregularly composed measures. Beyond the groove, influenced by the music of North Africa (Algerian Chaabi) and the Middle East, the style of play uses opposition, confrontation, overlapping and contrasts. Improvisation lies at the core of these musical pieces. Structured around a highly crafted, chamber music style of songwriting and backed up by a singular beat, the themes let themselves drift along more or less slowly in the ever-evolving improvisation or simply in the interaction between the musicians, and then circles back to a theme or an expansion on the theme. "Escales" combines music that speaks to the body (dance, song, celebration) and music that encourages travel (melancholy, nostalgia, appeasement). In this new adventure, Guillaume Dettmar's music is influenced by the aesthetics of Avishai Cohen, Ibrahim Maalouf, Dhafer Youssef, Anouar Brahem and even Orner Klein and Chai Maestro, among others. It is dynamic instrumental music with harmonies enriched by jazz, drifting through improvised music and dreamlike vocals, one that encourages travel and uses different Mediterranean languages (Arabic and Hebrew).

Marcela will unveil her new album « O’Roma » on his release April 1, 2022 on Jamalafak / Music Box Publishing / Socadisc. This new work will be presented live on stage on Thursday April 7, 2022 at Studio de L’Ermitage (Paris). Woman, artist, mother and « pack » leader. As a Slovak mad against her country, fighting traditions and bored, she left it. As a trapped black Gypsy, she decided to believe that elsewhere will be freedom. Marcela kept on composing from this new « home » that France became. The place where she finds her true self is on stage. Marcela expresses there her own History: the expression of an anger from time to time, the story of an orphan, a girl who decided to forgive her mom when she sings to her own kids this lullaby: Ando Suno. Her « pack » is formed by Benny her guitar player, by Charles her soulmate composer, by Loran the experienced violinist and by Yoann the fearless double bassist. Marcela, happier than ever, shout her love on stage. Down with traditions and her own contradictions, free to make her very own choices, she carries inside her the insolence of those who knew pain, publicly fighting to transmit her will, strength and freedom values making the note resonate and crying without shame. More intimate, this album dives deep into the band’s musical identity and brings to light Marcela’s very own universe: her rich soundscapes and History, between joy and pain, anger and traditions. Mixing original compositions, traditional songs and both Romany and French lyrics, this album is an invitation to follow this journey all together. The journey of self-discovering as well as discovering others and the world enlighten by an audacious and festive orchestration. This album is the perfect occasion for Marcela to invite several musicians such as Nedjim Bouizzoul, leader of Labess, with whom she co-wrote the song « Yallah Mon Frère » mixing Kabyle and Gypsy cultures. In - O’ROMA - there are also Emilio Castiello from Aalma Dili at Mandolin, Thibault Duquesnay and Mihai Pirvan at Saxophone and Percussions from Ersoy Kazimov, Marwan Slimani or Bilal Chenni.