Three-time Grammy Award winner Angélique Kidjo is one of the greatest artists in international music today, a creative force with thirteen albums to her name. Time Magazine has called her “Africa’s premier diva”. The BBC has included her in its list of the continent’s 50 most iconic figures, and in 2011 The Guardian listed her […]
TRIO SR9 present their creative vision of contemporary percussion.The trio, made up of Paul Changarnier, and Alexandre Nicolas Cousin Esperet, was formed in 2010 at the National Conservatory of Music and Dance of Lyon, and has since performed on many stages in France and internationally. In this Bach on the Marimba program, the group will offer harmonies […]
As a member of Stereolab, Lætitia Sadier helped to champion analog synthesizers during an era when fetishism for all things digital was on the rise, the British group took cues from Krautrock, lounge music, psychedelic rock and minimalism, still managing to be one of the more progressive bands of their time. Sadier’s cool, instantly recognizable […]
Flora Fishbach caused quite a stir in France in 2017, and 2018 looks like it’ll be her breakout year elsewhere. The Dieppe-born chanteuse released debut album À ta merci to universal praise in January, and by November she was taking home the album révélation at Le Prix des Indés, the coveted prize for best independent […]
Benoit Delbecq has appeared on nearly a hundred discs. He performs solo piano and solo electronics (“MadMacs”), leads or co-leads a number of bands from duos to quintets, and is involved in many multi-disciplinary productions of theater, dance, the visual arts, and cinema. June 14 @ Jazz Standart Website Twitter
British-born, Paris-based vocalist Ala.Ni defies categorization. All of her songs are written and produced by the artist. Ala.Ni’s voice seems to take in the cadences of musical history, and has an idiosyncratic creative approach to conveying her music, including spooky, self-produced Super 8 videos, and 19th century photo techniques. US TOUR DATES 2/27 @ Le […]
Chocolate Genius, Inc. started out as the alter ego of New York singer-songwriter Marc Anthony Thompson. Based in San Fransisco Thompson began his solo career in the 1980s and made his mark on the scene with Chocolate Genius’ 1998 debut album, Black Music. In the years following, Thompson scored films and theater productions and continued to […]
Born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1940, of mixed Nigerian and Ghanaian parentage, Tony Allen taught himself to play by listening to records made by the American jazz drummers Art Blakey and Max Roach. He began working as a professional musician in 1960, gigging around Lagos and variously playing highlife and jazz. Today living in Paris, […]
