World music
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 ...
VIDALA : Cantando Al Sol
The musicians of VIDALA are united around their common love of South American music, its poets and particularly “Nueva Canción”, from which they glean new treasures every day.
VIDALA takes its name from a musical and poetic form derived from Argentinean folklore, and its inspiration from its popu...
GILBERTO GIL: A God in his Garden
With his world tour cancelled due to COVID, Gilberto Gil invites us to an acoustic concert in the garden of his residence in Araras, where he and his family are spending lockdown. He is accompanied by his two sons, Bem and Jose, his daughter Nara and her 11-year-old granddaughter Flor, whose big voi...
ARASH SARKECHIK – Toutirabien
A multi-instrumentalist and singer, trained in classical music as well as jazz, Arash Sarkechik has spent three decades exploring the numerous possibilities of his abilities within different groups. The power of his compositions and his playing comes from the lessons learned during this fruitful jou...
