2 live sessions on the show’s menu, the first with the Franco-Japanese artist Maia Barouh, on the occasion of the release of the clips Tokyo Ondo and Sushi. The Scrapbook Aida (Between 2 in Japanese) is expected in 2022.
Franco-Japanese singer, flautist, author, composer and arranger.
Maïa is a unique artist mixing Japanese ancestral songs with Franco-Japanese rap, groove, electro, song with great freedom.
One of her particularities is her great vocal technique – largely unknown coming from an island in the south of Japan, which she associates with her flute, percussive and insolent.
The German press calls her “the punk shaman!”
Maïa has this exceptional ability to create improbable mixtures. This is where his inimitable and recognizable style is born.
Lulled by music in the wake of her father Pierre Barouh, Maïa took to instruments such as the piano, guitar and percussion very early on. But, the flute was his first weapon to face the job.
She began her career at the age of 16 in the Tokyo underground, playing the flute in rock groups, saxophone in a Japanese street brass band, accompanying drag-queens, stripper dancers, Guinean and Brazilian griot musicians…. Before setting up her own founded group of electric bass and percussion, where her singing will become central with which she will perform concerts and tours throughout the archipelago.
After 11 years of career in Japan, the meeting and collaboration with the famous producer Martin Meissonnier (Fela Kuti, Robert Plant & Jimmy Page, Khaled, Don cherry, Manu Dibango..) will bring her to Paris to produce the album Kodama who will make it tour all over Europe, for 5 years, before preparing his brand new project “AIDA”. AIDA means between two in Japanese. It’s an album evoking her Franco-Japanese identity, Asian racism, exodus and feminism.
Produced by Maïa over several years, directed by MAJiKer (English producer known for his work with Camille or Berywam). The heart of his research was to compose from his base which is singing and the flute and find a natural way to mix his two languages by working with rapper Elea Braaz, to find the accuracy of French words on ancestral melodies. Japanese, or make French sound like Japanese on a rap.
At the same time as the release of her stunning new single and music video from TOKYO ONDO which made more than 50,000 views in 1 week, Maïa is challenging herself once again for the stage. Contrary to her album produced with electro sounds, she decides to launch herself into voice guitar because yes, nobody knows it but Maïa also plays the guitar and has a hell of a rock style, groove with sounds of Brazilian times!
You can see her perform in Paris and its regions. You can also see Maïa on stage with the “L’Ultrabal” project orchestrated by Fixi as well as on the dance show “Vestige” by the Franco-Japanese dancer choreographer Satchie Noro. With her great experience of the stage, her madness, her volcanic energy and her boundless musicality, Maïa Barouh takes us to the heart of her roots where melancholy and trance, groove and electronic music, ancestral rap and singing come together, and seizes the public. by his voice that takes you to the guts!
Titles interpreted by Maïa Barouh (guitar-voice) at RFI
– Tokyo Ondo see the clip
– Sushi.
Mini playlist by Maïa Barouh
– The Chica Mistakes see the clip
– Iara Renno Mama Me see the clip.
Then we receive Badume’s Band & Selamnesh Zemene for the album release Yaho Bele / Say Yeah and Bertrand Dupont from the Innacor label.
The Badume’s Band sound and the new album Yaho Bele / Say Yeah (Innacor).
Revealed by the great voice of Ethiopia mahmoud ahmed, the Breton Badume’s backing band with the legendary Ethiopian voice has also been arranging the songs of the young diva Selamnesh Zéméné for nearly 10 years. Revelation of the WOMAD UK 2018. Selamnesh Zéméné & Badume’s Band present today a new repertoire from the nuggets of the ancient heritage of the Azmari community of the Gondar Region where the young singer comes from.
Selamnesh Zemene belongs to the Azmari nomadic community of the Gondar region in the Highlands, 750 km from Addis Ababa. Ethiopian singers and musicians comparable to our bards, the Azmaris often perform in bars called azmaribet. These sedentary artists are renowned for their talent for improvising lyrics and their taunting humour. The azmaris are real peddlers of the collective memory and play a key role in the transmission of popular Ethiopian music.
It’s at Fendika, azmaribet directed under the artistic direction of the brilliant dancer Melaku Belay that Selamnesh makes Addis sing and dance. She participates in the artistic collective of the famous azmaribet and collaborates in many international projects.
“In the 1960s, Morvan Lebesque, journalist at Le Canard enchaîné, asked himself in a resounding essay: How can one be Breton? (Seuil). Today we could answer this question by evoking the BADUME’S BAND, a group of Breton musicians trained in the traditional repertoire, who became interested in Ethiopian music before accompanying the great masters of Ethiopian groove on international stages”, Patrick Labesse, Le Monde August 2011.
BADUME’S BAND is a true transmitter of this Ethiopian musical culture in the West. Falling in love with this original but somewhat forgotten musical genre that is the ethio-groove, this atypical group from Brittany, set out to recreate the atmosphere of Addis Ababa in the 1960s and 70, when the African capital swirled to the sound of twist, soul and rhythm’n’blues.
Brought by the singer’s voice Eric Menneteauwho learned Amharic on their own, Badume’s Band has been revisiting the golden age of Ethiopian music since 2005 with jubilant mastery.
Aklilu Zewdie clarinettist and director of the Addis Ababa Conservatory met during a very first residency in France, very quickly introduced the Badume’s Band to the Ethiopian star mahmoud ahmed. The latter is no less than the inventor of this musical genre specific to Ethiopia in the 70s: a haunting and hypnotizing melody between groove, jazz and tradition, supported by languorous and vigorous brass, and a language with intonations jerky. In short, he is to Ethiopia what Fela Kuti is to Nigeria: a myth. For Badume’s Band, it’s the beginning of a long friendship and collaboration.
Performed titles:
– Ye’Ambassel Mare Live RFI
– Laliye Laliye excerpt from the album Yaho Belé
– Bati Ketemawu Live RFI.
Musicians
– Sélamnesh Zéméné, vocals
– Rudy Blasguitar
– Antonin Volsonbattery.
His : Benoit Letirant and Fabien Mugneret.
(Replay)