World music
AMIN AL AIEDY
At the crossroads of the sounds of the East and West, like a heritage, Amin Al Aiedy mixes the textures, rhythms and accents of Arabic art music with those of modern jazz to lead us into unknown territory.
The band formed in 2020 and began touring the following year, notably at Jazz au Sommet, wh...
DANAKIL at the Magic Bus Festival
With a career spanning 20 years, this reggae band has played the biggest venues in Europe and sold more than 150,000 albums.
Their complicity with their fans greatly contributed to the band’s success and sent it to the top of the French reggae scene, where it made its unique mark, stamp...
MARCUS GAD – Rhythm of Serenity
The Caledonian singer is one of Midnite’s kids, this group from the Virgin Islands that has shaken the world of reggae in the 2000’s.
For his second album entitled « Rhythm of Serenity », Marcus Gad collaborated with American Andrew « Moon » Bain, one of the pillars of the musician family and bap...
THE FAT BASTARDS GANG BAND
Singing in nine languages, the Fat bastards Gang Band mixes, blends and flavours its music with a multitude of spices. A powerful contemporary sound, in which electric and traditional instruments combine to get the audience dancing.
Irreverent, satirical and festive, the Fat Bastard Gan...
URBAN VOICES – where you come from
The vocal choir XXL Nantes Urban Voices, trained for ten years by its artistic director Karim Ammour, offers here the Maghreb onstage. In July 2022, his final show brought together close to a thousand amateur vocalists around professional musicians, for a bewitching sound and visual journey.
Sinc...
DID YOU SAY PRIMITIVE? Music and instruments from prehistory
Telling the wonderful tale of music and the origin of instruments, this show takes the audience on a journey through time, space and the imagination to the heart of prehistory and the beginnings of humanity, and offers a lively and original approach to musical archaeology and ethnomusicology.
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KOUM TARA
A real cultural journey that offers us a unique musical alliance: poetry and traditional Chaâbi melodies about Love blend and fuse with the traditions of Western string quartets, jazz improvisation and electronic music.
The KOUM TARA group is the meeting of four musical universes around...
RAY LEMA: You come in KO’d and Leave OK
Ray Lema, pianist, composer, one of the fathers of post-modern Central African music and a pillar of world music, pays tribute to Franco Luambo, Congolese rumba icon and founder of the group Tout Puissant OK JAZZ.
With his glorious arrangements, Ray Lema manages to retain the soul and energy of t...
SAMARABALOUF
Created in 2000, Samarabalouf is an acoustic swing and gypsy jazz group from northern France.
The string trio works its wonders in the difficult genre of swing thanks to François PETIT, the composer and guiding light of this surprising group...
French world music - Tendance Manouche: the expre...
Tribute concert to MANITAS DE PLATA
A unique concert, recorded at the Théâtre de la Mer in Sète on August 7, 2021.
Ricardo Baliardo, known as "Manitas de Plata" (literally "little hands of silver") was one of the most prolific French musicians of the last century. He is the flamenco artist who has sold the most albums in ...