WORLD MUSIC, CLASSICAL MUSIC & ELECTRONIC MUSIC
IN LANGUEDOC-ROUSSILLON

world music, programmed by FIP
Patrick Derlon, producteur délégué (fréquence à Montpellier : 99.7 MHz )
7 and 10pm - Free Admission

Born two years ago from the meeting of three young black multi-instrumentalists in North Carolina, the oldest of whom is under 30, the Carolina Chocolate Drops are currently becoming a big hit in the United States. Somewhere between blues and ‘old-time music’, they go back to the repertoire of the jug-bands and black string bands of the 1920s and ‘30s, very relaxed but displaying amazing energy.

Tuesday 15, July - 10pm - PARC DU CHÂTEAU - ST DREZERY
Wednesday 16, July - 10pm - PARC MUNICIPAL - CLAPIERS
Thursday 17, July -10pm PARC- MONTPLAISIR - CASTELNAU

Born of Cape Verdean parents on the island of São Vicente under the sun of Dakar, Mariana has been immersed in music—that of the rhythms of Cape Verde—since childhood: her father, Toy Ramos alias ‘Toy de Bibia’, is guitarist with the famous group ‘Voz de Cabo Verde’. For several years, she drifted away from traditional music to discover other musical worlds, from Claude Nougaro to Michel Jonasz by way of Edith Piaf, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan or Rickie Lee Jones. Meeting Teofilo Chantre and Nazalio Fortes, young Cape Verdean composers, brought her back to her origins. Quite naturally, she would blend in her influences, thus finding her artistic way up to the first album, Di dor em or, released in April 2000..

This guitarist is the youngest in a line of Gypsy musicians from Las Tres Mil Viviendas, the largest slum on the outskirts of Seville. Diego Amador was born in 1973 into a family of flamenco tradition in Seville, brother of Raimundo and Raphael Amador, founders of the famous flamenco-rock group ‘Pata Negra’. Accompanist of the guitarist Tomatito or the dancer Israel Galván, this singer-guitarist has made himself known especially for his unique flamenco piano playing.

The Kocani Orkestar is a Macedonian Gypsy band that proposes a repertoire both traditional and contemporary. In the large copper pot of the Balkans, the recipe of the Kocani Orkestar is based on a few secrets unique to it. Its two brothers are amongst the four tuba players who, with the formidable tapan drummer, Saban Jasarov, ensure an implacable rhythm, well experienced in all compound times. Two trumpets, an accordion and a clarinet complete the melodic arsenal. But the Kocani is, above all, a singing band devoted to wedding music. With his honeyed voice and innocent face, the young Ajlur Azizov brings a unique touch to the group’s sound, singing in Macedonian, Rom, Turkish...


Friday 18, July - PLACE DE LA REPUBLIQUE - LIMOUX
Saturday 19, July - 7pm - PARC DU CHÂTEAU DE TURENNE - PIGNAN
Sunday 20, July - 10pm - CHÂTEAU DES EVÊQUES - LAVERUNE
Monday 21, July - 7pm- - PLACE DE L’EGLISE - MONTAUD

The Joubran brothers are all worthy heirs to a rich family tradition, sons of an outstanding master instrument maker in the Arab world and a mother who is a singer with the Muashabat ensemble. Subtle, committed ud players, Samir and Wissam Joubran travel the world over in order to spread a message of peace in the Near East. In 2004, the duo turned into a trio with the arrival of the youngest member of the family, Adnan. These virtuosos of the ud are perfect ambassadors of Palestine’s rich musical culture.

Uprooted from his native land shortly after birth, Ibrahim Maalouf would long keep the music of his childhood and city of his birth, Beirut, buried. He grew up and lives his exile in France, part of a family that, for several generations, has won renown through music, painting, journalism, poetry, literature and teaching. At the age of 7, with his father, Nassim Maalouf (former student of Maurice André and the first Arab trumpeter to play western classical music), he discovered that the notes and melopoeia coming from this trumpet were the expression of an ancient culture. No one before his father had ever had the idea of paying tribute to it with this instrument, adapting the Arab musical language to the trumpet. Thanks to this heritage, Ibrahim who, when he was younger, dreamt of rebuilding Lebanon by becoming an architect, would end up building his life round music and the messages it enabled him to send at the speed of light.

Mariana Aydar, a promising young (26 years old) artist, is part of the new Brazilian scene. Her first album, entitled Kavita 1 (a Sanskrit word meaning ‘poet’), translates a daring musicality that prompts encounters between her own compositions and new composers, alongside reprises of classics of Brazilian pop. Modern, romantic sambas with jazz nuances, Brazilian folk rhythms reinterpreted against a reggae background, samba songs transformed into forró and reprises of standards: such is the universe of Kavita 1, an album produced by Universal, which Mariana invites you to discover…