#SessionLive with Toni Green. The former American singer of Isaac Hayes releases an album Memphis-Made. Shadi Fathi presents the album “awat», which the Iranian setar virtuoso devised with percussionist Bijan Chemirani.
Our 1time guest Toni Green comes to sing 2 tracks from her new album Memphis-Made.
Soul singer Toni Green is one of the best kept secrets in the current soul sphere.
Originally from Memphis where she worked for a long time in the entourage of the great Isaac Hayes, and Stax studios, Toni Green had an early musical debut. “My father was a musician and everyone came to rehearse at home. The Bar-Kays, backing band of Otis Redding (!), the Mad Lads, all that the city had in terms of musicians marched through our living room and our backyard!She performs 2 titles in the Grand studio with her French musicians.
Titles performed at the Grand studio
-Roller Coaster Love Live RFI
– Sick & Tiredfrom the album Memphis-Made
– Memphis Made Live RFI.
Line-Up: Toni Greenvoice ; Eddy Leclercelectric guitar ; Paul Heroux, battery ; Thomas Planquebass; Clement Priouorgan and keyboards.
Sebastian Danchin : artist management and artistic coordination and translation of the interview.
Sound: Benoît Letirant, Fabien Mugneret.
► Scrapbook Memphis-Made (Sound Surveyor Music 2022).
Then we receive the Iranian Kurdish musician Shadi Fathi.
Musical cultures sometimes take on an unknown brilliance far from their nourishing source. The meeting in Marseilles, in 2016, between Shadi Fathi and Bijan Chemirani comes from this kind of precious spark, from a fertile dialogue on the peaks of Persian music.
Born in Tehran, Shadi trained with Ostad Dariush Talai, grand master of Persian art music, before establishing herself as an exceptional soloist with her virtuosity on setar and shourangiz, traditional string instruments. Bijan has become a reference for zarb, an ancestral Iranian percussion, alongside his father but also through multiple projects from France.
The duo present in their first album, Delashena classical inspirations and contemporary flashes in a rhythmic proliferation conducive to improvisation, enlightened by readings of Persian poems, Mowlana Rumi or Sohrab Sepehri. A delicate conversation conducted with sublime mastery…
Their artistic complicity has led them to compose new pieces, always inspired by the richness and diversity of Iranian music and Persian poetry. Thus was born Âwât (“great desire” in Kurdish).
Titles broadcast : Khab o Khiyal, Setar solo, Khayyam, Chenin Bada, excerpts from the album Awat.
► Scrapbook awat (Buda Music 2022).