Africa / Afro Latin / Afro-Caribbean / Afrobeat / Afropop / Baile Funk / Bikutsi / Bossa Nova / Brazilian / Caribbean / Congolese Rumba / Cumbia / Highlife / Hiplife / latino / Makossa / Reggae / Roots Reggae / Salsa / Soukouss / Zouglou
La Sala Rossa
Jazz / Third Stream
(POSTPONED) Projet Don Ellis II
He has delivered two particularly memorable concerts at Sala Rossa in recent years. The first one, Grand Jawaka, in the summer of 2016, featured most of Frank Zappa’s albums Waka Jawaka and Grand Wazoo. The second, Ode à l’Infonie, the following summer, with the ensemble 333 ToutArtBel, revisited some of the legendary group’s emblematic works with a joyful enthusiasm. Following on from his December concert, which focused on the main representatives of the Third Stream, which combined classical music and jazz, namely Don Ellis, Robert F. Graettinger, Ken Hanna and Pete Rugolo, Philippe Hode-Keyser is presenting a new and improved version of his Don Ellis project, presented with an ensemble of 28 musicians in February 2017. This time, it’s with a collective of 58 artists (rhythm section, brass, woodwinds, sitar, tablas, choirs, dance) that he pays tribute to the work of the visionary trumpeter, composer and conductor Don Ellis, who died prematurely of a heart attack in 1978 at the age of 44.
PROGRAMME
“Brash Brass Bash” (1973)
“Good Feelin’” (1969)
“Fire Dance” (1973)
“Pussywiggle Stomp” (1968)
“Star Children” (1968)
“Thetis” (1967)
“Wolfgang for All Seasons” (1972)
“Without Joan” (1972)
“Hey Jude” (1969)
“Whiplash” (1978)
Africa / Psych-Rock / Rock / Saharan Blues
(CANCELLED) Mdou Moctar • Avec le soleil sortant de sa bouche
*Photo credit: Jerome Fino
Niger’s Mdou Moctar isn’t the kind of person who waits for things to happen. Growing up in a village where music was prohibited, he built himself his first guitar from scrap wood. He travelled to Nigeria to record his 2008 debut album, which mashed up Tuareg blues-rock and Afro-electro, and spread like wildfire on the West African cellphone circuit. He produced and starred in the first Tuareg-language film, a remake of Purple Rain. And with each successive, blistering guitar lick, he’s placed himself at the forefront of the North African desert-psych sound that Tinariwen made the world aware of back in 2001. His latest album (and first with a proper band and producer), 2019’s Ilana: The Creator, is an amazing piece of work, bursting with energy and a harsh, shiny tone, Moctar’s rhythm section chugging steadily along behind him as he takes his outrageous riff-work to transcendental highs.
Ambient / Avant-Garde / Electro / Experimental Dream Pop / Post-Rock
Siamois Synthesis
The first clue is a Montreal composer and audiovisual artist named Maxime Corbeil-Perron on keyboards and electronics, the second is a bass player who has been active on the independent music scene for the past 20 years, named Sylvain Gagné, the third one is a guitarist named Simon Trottier (not shown here), known for highlighting the textural possibilities of his instrument, the fourth a vocalist of Japanese origin named Maya Kuroki. Put them together and you have the new band Siamois Synthesis, launching their first album Feu Aimant, on the Ambiances Magnétiques label, whose first excerpt is very promising.