A star amongst the singing heroes from the black continent, Bonga was the first singer to interpret diva Cesaria Evora’s famous Sodade.

The mix between his deep and melancholic gravelly voice and his flamboyant personality created the perfect alchemy for over 30 years : a mix between a spirited anti-establishment personality and an acute political conscience, between polished musicality and the authenticity of ‘saudade’.
Throughout his lengthy career his music has been the reflection of a life that is consistently engaged politically as well as being marked by semba and Luso-African blues rhythms. He is the reference for modern Angolan music.
A legend.

In Kalakuta Orchestra, the finest of the culturally mixed Grenoble music scene is brought together and the red carpet unrolled for a scorching groove with a powerful brass section.

Behind afro, funk, dub and electro influences, the band’s raison d ‘être rests primarily on a very fine blend of afro-beat rhythms.

Through insatiable rhythms, brass riffs, African percussions and urban sounds, they pay hommage to Nigerian transe music and they invite the public to dance to their funky sounds.

A dialogue between a maestro and a prodigy, between the timeless Iranian violin, the kamantché, and the baglama lute.
Their delicate exchange is like reaching the summit of Persian and Anatolian music. The classy label ECM got it right when it decided to add them to their label : praise indeed for this enchanting musical odyssey with its appeasing oriental jazz sounds and its golden instrumental partitions.
The Kurdish Iranian Kayhan Kalhor’s virtuosity and Erdal Erzincan’s sensitivity both express the infinite wealth of their ‘poetry of the wind and clouds’ : a light, sensitive, impalpable and extatic music.

Theirs is an elegant trip on board the celestial Orient Express...

Khaïra Arby is a rare find in Northern Mali : a strong-minded woman, free of conventions, an advocate of the female cause and a musician.

An alter ego of Ali Farka Touré, she deploys her exceptional voice and as if by magic, the sand dunes of Timbuktu appear in front of us.

Like a caravan of sounds that follows the tracks of a desert blues, the songs are spoken in Songhaï, Tamasheq, Arab and Bambara.

The Saharian diva’s backing voices accompany the slow and languid rhythms to appease and stimulate us.

King Kapisi is a New Zealand native who was born on the Samoan islands. He practices a buzzing and engaged hip-hop with cutting beats and abrasive samples.

But the MC built his reputation on a unique sense of melody and an incandescent flow : exploring the themes of religion, colonialism, social realities as well as the transmission of knowledge and Samoan values that are at the heart of the Pacific.

King Kapisi jumps from fun to political protest and speaks an honest Polynesian rap language.

Matilde Politi is a specialist when it comes to popular Mediterranean traditions.

The Italian singer’s style reveals the incredible wealth of Sicilian music which has its roots in an oral tradition of historical and political songs. Thanks to Matilde Politi, these songs that have forged the islanders’ collective memory will no longer be destined to be forgotten.

With the backing of an accordeon, a guitar or a tamburello, Matilde Politi brings these antique gems back to life, enriching them along the way with her own creations, feeding the Sicilian culture at its source.
Her work digs deep in the soul and the history of the Sicilian nation.

The winner of the 2011 Alain Peters prize awarded during the Reunion island Festival Sakifo, Tyeri Abmon could well be the symbol of the Maloyan new generation.

Percussionist drummer and singer, he is also the inventor of the « 4’ roul’ man », a hybrid instrument which is a combination of the piker, the sati, the congas and the rouler.
These represent the whole of the Maloyan percussion instruments and were declared Immaterial World Heritage in 2009.
Tyeri Abmon is a one-man-band and a prodigy .
He has captured the mystical flame of this musical tradition which takes its origins from the songs of slaves and which swells like the beating heart of the Indian Ocean...

DJ Soumnakai is a specialist of music from the Balkans. His music joyfully brings together Europe and Asia along the shores of the Bosphorus. With his explosive mixes, he shakes the dance floors and creates a feverish and nostalgic popular party atmosphere that is the lifeblood of the Gypsy soul.