Festival Arabofolies Acte IV February 28-March 8 Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris

Seb el Zin, Ithak and Hakim Hamadouche. © Pierre Vital-Durand

By: Laurence Aloir

After Initiations, in October 2019, here is a 4th edition dedicated to all those who commit in words, images, music, sometimes risking their lives, and place beauty and freedom at the center of their art.

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Our guests :
Dorothée Engel , from the Cultural Actions Department (shows) at L'IMA, Hakim Hamadouche and Seb El Zin from the Ithak group.

Hakim Hamadouche, Dorothée Engel and Seb el Zin at RFI. © RFI / Laurence ALOIR

March 5 at the IMA: Far from remaining on the threshold of the universe of the other, Hakim Hamadouche and the Ithak group have taken up the gamble on total adventure and created an unprecedented common repertoire, which they will deliver forward -first for these Arabofolies. At the crossroads of jazz, punk rock and chaabi, the Algerian singer, composer and master of the mandoluth Hakim Hamadouche, loyal lieutenant of Rachid Taha for twenty-five years, released the album Hakim Hamadouche Live in late 2019. The group Ithak was created in 2005 around the composer and poet Seb El Zin , who came to present his Grand Bazaar at the Arabofolies in October 2019. Passed by Ircam, he did hip-hop and hardcore, is a fan of noise, psychedelia, surrealist poetry and electro and learned the ney flute and the saz lute in Turkey.

So many eclectic ingredients that he manipulates and breaks down barriers within Ithak and his other formation, Anarchist Republic of Bzzz . The two explorers will be accompanied by inventive virtuosos: Thomas Ballarini , who vibrates the oriental req or daf as well as the most heterogeneous objects, his body or electronic pulsations; Fanny Lasfargues whose acoustic and electric basses and double basses are all vehicles for experimentation. This innovative quartet promises to be a furiously electric and poetic combination of hopes and anger that aroused the era.

Seb el Zin with Fanny Lasfargues, Hakim Hamadouche, Tom Ballarini in rehearsal. © Ithak

Hakim Hamadouche will also perform on March 21 at Studio de l'Ermitage.

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