Sarāb + Parranda La Cruz
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Sarāb
Sarāb – mirage in Arabic – is a musical edifice that combines rock, modern jazz and traditional Arab music, playing with borders and genres. It is the result of a meeting between the Franco-Syrian singer Climène Zarkan and the guitarist Baptiste Ferrandis.
It’s a chimerical adventure that brings together the fury of contemporary jazz and the infinite richness of traditional Middle Eastern music and texts. Dreaming with the harmonies of jazz, exulting with the energy of rock, dancing with the rhythms of the world, the six musicians sublimate the depths of tradition to deliver to Man the enchanting poetry of these eternal melodies.
Parranda La Cruz
In the turbulent and often dark seas of rampant globalisation, there is also life, freedom and miraculous unions… In the melting pot of international folklore created by artists with deep roots and summits open to all winds, there is Parranda La Cruz. Between the Atlantic and Indian oceans, the quartet has produced a first album that’s searing, cathartic, jubilant… essential!
After the highly acclaimed ‘Aguacero’ EP, Parranda La Cruz remain firmly linked to the very essence of their hybrid music and the cultures that underpin it. Between the Caribbean coast of Venezuela and Reunion Island, at the heart of the trance, we find the strong yet sensitive identities of four singers and percussionists in total symbiosis. Together, they create a whirlwind that blends the ancient and the modern, the everyday and the exceptional, the natural and the spiritual, the body and the heart… Most of the new songs are composed by this wild and gentle band, which manages to combine the energies of traditional repertoires with a contemporary approach.
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Sarāb
The duo soon became a six-headed creature, where each∙e became∙e indispensable to the musical creation. Robinson Khoury’s trombone links up with the voice, and navigates between oriental and European scales, between ornamentation and a personal technique. It is with the trombone and the voice that we find the horizontality of Arab music, turned upside down […]
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In the turbulent and often dark seas of galloping globalization, there is also life, freedom and miraculous unions… In the melting pot of international folklore conceived by artists with deep roots and peaks open to all winds, there is Parranda La Cruz. Between the Atlantic and Indian oceans, the quartet has produced a scorching, cathartic, […]
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