Banlieues Bleues Festival - Concert : Joy Guidry + Mike Ladd + أحمد [Ahmed] + Muqata'a

- Joy Guidry
A boundless improviser and an extraordinary composer, Joy Guidry has always believed in the transcendent power of music. Originally from Texas and based in California, the bassoonist produces a soundtrack that sounds like nothing other than herself. A free music, where she affirms her transgender identity and her belief in the emancipatory virtues of gospel. It is with this ear that we must listen to her latest opus, Amen, both jubilant and premonitory, between spoken words and heartbreaking notes, poignant chorus and radiant layers, like an inclination to free ourselves from our mental constraints.

- Mike Ladd
It was at the turn of the millennium: Mike Ladd released Welcome to the Afterfuture, a futuristic and unclassifiable album that mixed many genres, trendy alternative hip-hop and open-minded jazz. Twenty-five years later, the iconoclastic American rapper-poet with his sharp words and sharp rhymes persists and reveals to Banlieues Bleues the sounds of his future album, a brew of beat cultures, soul temptations and improvised impulses, and an overview of a global current events with dystopian overtones. Enough to encourage us to deconstruct the present in order to build a more enchanted future

- أحمد [Ahmed]
It is by reinhabiting the work of the American double bassist Ahmed Abdul-Malik (1927-1993) that this breathtaking European quartet came together, with the desire to create "a music that, for having been born in the 20th century, would speak to the 21st". From the author of the initiatory Jazz Sahara, they retained, beyond his extra-European vision of jazz, a desire to open up new paths, a third way at the crossroads of many traditions. And to achieve this, nothing better than the urgency of the present, both in & out, live and direct. Like an eruption of sounds that recall the fertile material that is free jazz, a way of being part of the present time by improvising, here and now.

- Muqata’a
A native of Palestinian rap in the 2000s within the pioneering group Ramallah Underground, Muqata’a has been on a quest for a refined music built around hypnotic beats, sounds taken from the occupied territories and samples of the music of his ancestors for about ten years. A work of memorial creation with political expectations that he is now refining between Berlin and Ramallah by resolutely choosing the side of the unheard, as evidenced by Kamil Manqus, his latest album with “revolutionary force” according to Pitchfork, a blaze of minimalist and intense sounds and beats that take history as witness.

>>> Free, reservation required on the online ticket office. / Attention: due to the limited capacity of each site, access to the concerts cannot be guaranteed.

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