For this evening, we're delighted to invite you on a double musical journey that celebrates the meeting of sound worlds and traditions from all horizons. Two concerts, two album releases, two stories, but the same desire to bring together here and there, to forge links across borders and make cultures rhyme in the present.
Manuel Hermia & Simon Leleux - Metanoïa :
Both have explored their instruments at the frontiers of cultures. Both have sought the here in the elsewhere, and the elsewhere in the here. In the end, these two found each other, their paths converging so much.
One sculpts the rhythm while the other colours the notes. As a duo, they rhyme the present with presence, dialogue with symbiosis, and enjoy sharing their energy to give shape to a music of here and now, as well as a music that is global and timeless.
Metanoia describes a change of outlook that will lead to a significant transformation in the way we think and act. This type of outlook on the world, which is born within us but has the capacity to change the world around us, appears to be decisive in this time of global transition, with the challenges on which the future of the planet and our Humanity depend.
Trio Charneux, Leleux & Puma :
There is an intercontinental music from a country that doesn't exist, a place where sounds can intermingle and dialogue without baggage or passport. As warm as the snowdrifts of the Taiga, more refreshing than the sub-Saharan torpor, ...
The proposed journey explores and reappropriates different musical traditions, more or less distant, and attempts to create a music with a shifting identity. Rather simple melodies inspire moments of improvisation that sometimes verge on trance.
Happiness, and the risk of breaking the mould... "There are no more seasons". There's no more season", or perhaps a fifth, which plays with habits.
An equilateral trio featuring Simon Leleux (a doholla and darbuka specialist), double bassist Nicolas Puma, a protean and chameleonic musician, and the generous breath of clarinettist Aurélie Charneux, who also wrote most of the compositions on their new album, Cinquième saison, released this winter by homerecords.be.
