In July 2021, the show went to the Suds festival in Arles where we met Sam Karpienia. On the occasion of his coming to Paris for a concert at the Consulate, we invite you to listen to the life and work of Sam.
From the Crau has been working for 4 years on a repertoire anchored in the reality of a Provençal geography located between Marseille, the perimeter of the Etang de Berre and the industrialized plain of La Crau, a rocky land with a rough and stocky charm. De la Crau defolklorizes Provençal to give it its place in the Sono Mondiale current, a musical current made up of hybridizations between local and global. This journey initiated by Sam Karpienia twenty years ago is expressed today with this new EP Temperi.
FROM THE CRAU is a group from Marseille with Rock, Folk, Punk influences, mixed with modern poetry. A sober universe, with contained power, melodies crossed by poetry with a thousand faces. Sam Karpienia sings a rough and off-ground Provençal distorted by looping riffs of electric guitars. Thomas Lippens hammers the trance with percussion and scrap wood. Manu Reymond on the double bass makes his bow creak and bite in syncopated rhythmic sequences leading to ecstasy. This training reveals Occitan in a categorically modern dimension. The music with rock influences and the powerful voice rise between mandola (acoustic or electric), guitar (alternating), drums and double bass to claim the alliance between Occitan, Mediterranean heritage and contemporary music.
After Gacha Empega and its Provençal polyphonies, Bread and its Occitan electro rock, Forabandit the Occitan-Turkish-Marseille acoustic trio, Sam Karpienia invent with Manu Reymond and Thomas Lippens a new Provençal epic, De la Crau.
Tracks by De La Crau, taken from the EP Temperi (8 track album expected in 2022)
– Shaman see the clip
– The Dralha
– At the Esper
-Tarabast
– Temperi see the clip
Then we receive Kandy Guira in trio formula for the #SessionLive which presents his new album Nagtaba (“Together”).
The Scrapbook Nagtaba : “Together”, is a colourful, powerful and luminous, militant and festive album. It is a call to union, to dance, to trance!
In Nagtaba resound the “bendrés” (drums of Faso), the “tchema” (metal bell), the electronic loops, and the powerful basses like a bridge between the 2 continents on which Kandy sails.
We discover prestigious guests: Alif Nabaa, Jowee Omicil, floby and Mai Lengani.
Oumou Sangaré said of Kandy: “the future star of Africa”; this album will undeniably shine Kandy Guira in the firmament!
Born in Yamoussoukro in Ivory Coast, Kandy Guira grew up in Burkina Faso.
She made her debut with Abdoulaye Cissé, Diamana orchestra and frequented cabarets.
She pulls out a 1er album in Burkina M’Ba, “mom” in Dioula, 2009.
Then, Tek la Runda (takes the reins in moré) 2019.
In addition, we hear it on stage with Oumou Sangaré, Cheick Tidiane Seck or Amadou and Mariam.
And 2021 Nagtaba !
Pieces performed at RFI:
– Dear Life Live RFI see the clip
-Africa Feat. Jowee Omicil, from the album Nagtaba see the clip
-Karango Live RFI.
Kandy Guira, singing
Yohann Le Ferrand, guitar
Mathieu Montecot, machines.
His : Mathias Taylor, Benoit Letirant.
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