World music
Live session and report Métis Music Angoulême (2/2)
Miksi on stage.
© Métis Music/Jeanne Lepreux
By: Laurence Aloir
4 mins
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With
Miksi, Antibalas, Dafné Kritharas, Christine Salem
and
Patrick Duval.
Continuation and end of our wanderings at
the Musiques Métisses festival
and the now famous Angoumoisines Live sessions!
#SessionLive Miksi
at the RFI_Angoulême studio
The
Miksi formation,
made up of refugee musicians and local artists, was born as part of a European project supported by the
Rocher de Palmer
.
Without speaking the same language, but finding in the notes an ideal means of communication, the five musicians of Miksi got to know each other during a first residency at the Rocher de Palmer in September 2020. Brought together by the European project Migrants Music Manifesto, they designed a first repertoire inspired by traditional Albanian, Kurdish or Syrian pieces rearranged by the group's coordinator,
Nicolas Lescombe
.
Meeting regularly for new residences and new concerts, the artists now form a solid, luminous, virtuoso group, which transports us to a world where borders are collapsing, where dialogue between peoples is finally possible.
Songs performed by Miksi
Moj el Bahar
(Syrian trad) clarinet violin, see RFI video
Moj e Bukura More
(trad Albania) guitar and accordion, see RFI video.
Miksi studio RFI.
© Laurence Aloir/RFI
Musicians
Yamen Al Yamani
, cello (Syria)
Artur Zeqiri
, violin (Albania)
Thomas Mazellier
, violin, beatmaker
Nicolas Lescombe
, clarinet accordion
Ebrahim Ahmad
, daf (perceived) Kurdish
Then
Chico Man
passes a head in the studio and gives us news of
Antibalas.
Collective based in New York,
Antibalas
(which means “bulletproof” in Spanish), initiated by
Martin Pena
, continues the work initiated by the late
Fela Kuti
by distilling a most dynamic afrobeat!
It's an explosive cocktail of jazz, funk and African rhythms, where festive spirit and political considerations collide.
With a solid brass section, a gang of expert percussionists, a funky rhythm and lyrics sung in English, Spanish and Yoruba, Antibalas has the firepower of a cruiser ready to breathe new life into scorching afrobeat!
Latest album
Fu Chronicles
(Daptone 2020).
Antibalas.
© Métis Music/Jeanne Lepreux
#Live session Dafné Kritharas
at the RFI_Angoulême studio.
This Franco-Greek singer draws her repertoire from the convergence of cultures that lived together under the Ottoman Empire.
His voice, impressive, flows from a pure source.
Strong and clear, ample and supple, it vibrates in the treble, resounds in the bass.
Dafné Kritharas
uses it as an instrument to create virtuoso sounds.
She does not just interpret this repertoire, but gives it a modern breath, borrowing from jazz or electro, surrounded by high-flying musicians.
Together they build a rich, subtle and powerful sound.
Latest
Varka
album (Lior Éditions – 2021).
Titles interpreted by Dafné Kritharas
O Peristeronas
(Dafné Kritharas) see video RFI
Kastellorizo.
Dafne Kritharas.
© Dominique Fiant/RFI
Line up Dafne Kritharas
Dafne Kritharas
, vocals
Paul Barreyre
, guitar-vocals
Pierre-Antoine Despatures
, double bass
Leaving the studio, I come across
Christine Salem
, a glass of champagne in her hand, let's go…
With her very personal way of bringing songs to life, Christine Salem captivates us with her deep and suave voice, the maloya at the foundation of her songs, cemented by a powerful blues.
Christine Salem, and you can hear it, loves this music born from the earth, pain and history.
For her new album,
Mersi
, she chose the violin as a common thread.
In the groove of the percussions the flights of his melody, of classical, even folk inspiration, are tangled.
Album
Mersi
(Blue Fanal – 2021).
Christine Salem, 2022. © Laurence Aloir/RFI
Sound: Mathias Taylor
Video: Dominique Fiant.
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