Bringing life back to the Ethiopian groove of the 60s and 70s, a music that no longer existed other than in the Ethiopiques series of recordings, such is Akalé Wube’s mission. Starting as a cover band, the quintet quickly moved towards a creative reappropriation. While the press consistently praises their recordings, Akalé Wube relentlessly tours around the world (USA, China, Korea, Brazil, South Africa, Lesotho, Mozambique, Morocco, Denmark, Germany, England, Belgium, Poland, Ethiopia, etc.). ) and in prestigious festivals (Nuits de Fourvière, Banlieues Bleues, Fiesta Sète, Jazz à Vienne, etc.), at times sharing the stage with great tutelary figures: Mahmoud Ahmed, Girma Bèyènè, Manu Dibango.
Akalé Wubé
Ethiopian grooves, made in ParisBaeshi Bang
Old school K-Pop revisited
A journey to the Korean Sixties, entirely dedicated to Bae Ho’s songs. Totally unknown outside Korea, Bae Ho was a celebrity in his country, and you would hardly find a person over 67 years old who can’t sing one of his songs by heart. The challenge taken up by Baeshi Bang is to play his songs without a singer, bringing modern jazz sound to it while keeping it’s original asian flavour. Since 2021 Baeshi Bang has left Bae Ho music aside to undertake collaborations with traditional Korean singers.
Tako Toki
Original music with DIY instruments made from waste
Tako Toki plays its own compositions with homemade instruments,designed from industrial scraps, DIY offcuts, recycled waste, diverted daily objects. Obviously, Tako Toki did not invent the concept, there are many illustrious predecessors in DIY instrument making. However, it must be recognized that while DIY musicians are legion, good music played with homemade instruments remains quite rare. With this in mind, the trio tackles a noble goal : to make music that nourishes the body and soul, as far as possible from the boring DIY instrument demos and the filthy rock of the various « trash boys », to the point of making its audience forget the modest origins of its instrumentarium.
Wild Horses Orchestra
Fictive circus orchestra
The Wild Horses Orchestra is an imaginary orchestra created by Etienne in 2020 oduring the strict first covid-national lockdown. Etienne, closed in his studio, gave birth to a few self-crafted pieces of music – he plays all the instruments freely, with his real pudgy fingers, without any electronic crutch or assistance from acronyms: no VST, no MAO, no MIDI, no AI, no SNCF, no GAFA…
Little by little, a sepia-toned orpheon takes shape, a kind of wonky circus orchestra , a movingt cabaret whose nostalgic leanings cling, as if by chance, to the branches of lands between East Africa and Far Asia.