World music
Seun Kuti & Egypt’80
Seun Kuti has the grace, the energy and the fury of his father Fela.
With the egypt 80 musicians, Fela’s legendary group, he gives a new life to the original incarnation of Afro beat. Nothing’s missing: gesture, phrase, soundness of brass, matchless groove of africa’s voices and drums.
Amazingly mat...
SÖNDÖRGO – Tamburocket Hungarian Fireworks
These young musicians from Szentendre, a small village near Budapest in which Serbs are in the minority, are part of a new generation of virtuoso groups.
It’s a family affair: following in the footsteps of their fathers and uncles, cousins David and Aaron, accompanied by their faithful double b...
Spanish Harlem Orchestra
This 12-piece orchestra, created in 2000 by the Puerto Rican pianist Oscar Hernandez, has given itself the mission of perpetuating the musical legacy of salsa, as it was performed in Manhattan’s Spanish Harlem, where many Puerto Rican emigrants have lived since the 1930s.
The group has won three Gra...
The high road to Kilkenny – Early Music from Ireland
Perfomance of The Musicians of Saint-Julien in Celtic lands, “The high road to Kilkenny” combines refined, “highbrow” pieces along with an entertaining repertoire of songs in Gælic and dances from the Irish Baroque.
Ancient Celtic music carries great mystery. Wherever you look at it, i...
URBAN VOICES: The Celtic Way
For the 7th edition of Urban Voices, the audience in Nantes was invited to join the musicians and choristers along the Celtic way.
Ireland was in the spotlight with its Gaelic melodies and its tradition of music and song from the land of enchanted myths and legends.
As usual, the artists in re...
Biguine – Inheritance
Martinican musical history is largely marked by colonisation, slavery, the wars of influence between the old European colonial empires and the eruption of the Montagne Pelée in 1902.
The development of its music, like its population, has followed a historical evolution. Martinique music has its orig...
Molada, the birth (Jasser Haj Youssef, Simone Kermes)
The vocal and instrumental works of Jasser Haj Youssef are unclassifiable. They are impregnated with the improvised style of the Arabic maqams that he learned in Monastir and Sousse (Tunisia) from his father as well as the freest forms of jazz – which he often plays on the viola d'amore . Between sc...
Omar Sosa & Jacques Schwarz-Bart: CrÉole Spirit
Omar Sosa and Jacques Schwarz-Bart have been separately flying the flag of Afro-Caribbean jazz high around the world for the last 10 years.
Today, the pianist Omar Sosa is the undisputed leader of a Cuban jazz inspired by the spiritual traditions of Santeria, the African belief system dating back t...
Sirba Octet : Tanz !
This remarkable ensemble, mid-way between classical and Klezmer music, revives the musical traditions of Eastern Europe by rearranging it according to the rules of classical music. Unique arrangements for eight exceptional musicians from the Orchestre de Paris, who play with dazzling interpretive fr...
