2 live sessions on the program’s menu, the 1st with the Franco-Japanese artist Maia Barouh, on the occasion of the release of the clips Tokyo Ondo and Sushi. The album Aida (Enter 2 in Japanese) is expected in 2022.
Franco-Japanese singer, flautist, author, composer and arranger.
Maïa is a unique artist mixing ancestral Japanese songs with Franco-Japanese rap, groove, electro, song with great freedom.
One of her peculiarities is her great vocal technique – largely unknown coming from an island in the south of Japan which she associates with her transverse flute, percussive and insolent.
The German press names her “the punk shaman! “
Maïa has this exceptional ability to achieve improbable mixtures. This is where his inimitable and recognizable style is born.
Cradled by music in her father’s wake Pierre Barouh, Maïa started playing instruments like piano, guitar and percussion very early on. But, the flute was his first weapon to face the profession.
She began her career at the age of 16 in the Tokyo underground, playing the flute in rock groups, saxophone in a Japanese street band, accompanying drag-queens, stripper dancers, Guinean and Brazilian griot musicians…. Before setting up her own group based on electric bass and percussion, where her song 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 make the album. Kodama which will make it run throughout Europe, for 5 years, before preparing its brand new project “AIDA”. AIDA means between two in Japanese. It is an album evoking its 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 the song and the flute and to find a natural way to mix his two languages by working with the rapper Elea Braaz, to find the rightness of the French words on ancestral melodies. Japanese, or make French sound like Japanese on a rap.
At the same time as the release of her new single and amazing clip from TOKYO ONDO which has more than 50,000 views in 1 week, Maïa is challenging herself again for the stage. Unlike her album produced with electro sounds, she decides to go solo in voice guitar because yes, no one knows but Maïa also plays guitar and has a hell of a rock, groove style with sometimes Brazilian sounds!
You can see her perform in Paris and its regions. You can also see Maïa on stage with the project “L’Ultrabal” orchestrated by Fixi as well as on the dance show “Vestige” by the Franco-Japanese dancer choreographer Satchie Noro. With her great experience on the stage, her madness, her volcanic energy and her musicality without borders, Maïa Barouh takes us to the heart of her roots where melancholy and trance, groove and electronic music, rap and ancestral songs come together, and grabs the audience. by his voice that takes you to the guts!
Titles performed by Maïa Barouh (guitar-voice) at RFI
– Tokyo Ondo see the clip
– Sushi.
Maïa Barouh’s mini playlist
– La Chica Ratas see the clip
– Iara Renno Mama-Me see the clip.
Then we get Badume’s Band & Selamnesh Zemen for the album release Yaho Bele / Say Yeah and Bertrand dupont of the Innacor label.
Badume’s Band sound and the new album Yaho Bele / Say Yeah (Innacor).
Revealed by the great voice of Ethiopia Mahmoud Ahmed, Badume’s Breton backing band of the legendary voice of Ethiopia has also been arranging the songs of the young diva Selamnesh Zéméné for almost 10 years. Revelation of 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 Zemen belongs to the nomadic Azmari 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 mocking humor. The azmaris are true hawkers of 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 the whole Addis sing and dance. She participates in the artistic collective of the famous azmaribet and collaborates in many international projects.
“In the 60s, Morvan Lebesque, journalist at Le Canard enchaîné, asked himself in a resounding essay: How can one be Breton? (Threshold). Today we could answer this question by evoking the BADUME’S BAND, a group of Breton musicians trained in traditional repertoire, who took an interest 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 broker of this Ethiopian musical culture in the West. Taken in love for this original musical genre but a little forgotten that is the ethio-groove, this atypical group from Brittany, set out to recreate the atmosphere of Addis Ababa in the 60s and 70, when the African capital swirled to the sound of twist, soul and rhythm’n’blues.
Brought by the singer’s voice Eric Menneteau, who learned Amharic on his own, since 2005 the Badume’s Band has been revisiting the golden age of Ethiopian music with jubilant mastery.
Aklilu Zewdié clarinetist 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 the Ethiopia of the 70 ‘: a haunting and hypnotizing melody between groove, jazz and tradition, supported by languid and vigorous brass, and a language with intonations jerky. In short, he is to Ethiopia what Fela Kuti is to Nigeria: a myth. For the Badume’s Band, it is the beginning of a long friendship and collaboration.
Titles performed:
– Yé’Ambassel Mare Live RFI
– Laliye Laliye from the album Yaho bele
– Bati Ketemawu Live RFI.
Musicians
– Selamnesh Zéméné, singing
– Rudy Blasguitar
– Antonin Volson, drums.
His : Benoît Letirant and Fabien Mugneret.