Nino de Elche, Beau Catcheur, Mike Ladd… The festival, which will take place from March 26 to April 22 in Seine-Saint-Denis, has announced the musical UFOs present for its 39and editing.
The musical planet Banlieues Bleues, jazz and world music festival in Seine-Saint-Denis, including the 39and edition begins Saturday in Bobigny, will be traversed for four weeks by various UFOs, from the trashy tango of Melingo to the transgressive flamenco of Nino de Elche.
The opening night, with the Andalusian Nino de Elche, is a strong symbol of the philosophy of this festival: this singer indeed explodes the codes of flamenco. “The definition of the aesthetic fields of the festival remains unclear”confirms to AFP Xavier Leduire, its president.
Banlieues Bleues offers this year forty concerts in twenty-five evenings in a dozen towns in the department, covering very diverse aesthetics. “No really identifiable chapels or genre labels, pursues Xavier Leduireapart from the high artistic value, the originality and the creativity of the proposals». “Banlieues Bleues is support for creation at the same time as a form of requirement and clearing. It is the ability to welcome artists who have no place elsewhere.says in his editorial Stéphane Troussel, president of the Departmental Council of Seine-Saint-Denis.
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Among them, Scuru Fitchadu and his furious and hardcore vision of funana, a traditional Cape Verdean rhythm already hectic, wielding the iron bar and the shout as instruments.
Banlieues Bleues will also serve as a sounding board for a few free electrons of the French scene, between jazz, improvised music and song, including Beau Catcheur, a duo bringing together double bassist Sarah Murcia and singer Fred Poulet, and double bassist-singer-agitator Fantazio. “At the Dynamo (cultural place in Pantin housing a concert hall and the administration of the festival), there will also be a lot of weird jazz”promises Xavier Leduire.
Guitarist Boris Boublil and flautist Magic Malik, and their poetic music with indistinct contours, fit into this box. The festival also offers a place for rap. That of the suburbs with Rocé, of Bamako with Ami Yerewolo, or cross-border with the meeting of the American Mike Ladd, the Senegalese TIE and the British of Caribbean origin Juice Aleem.
Beyond the musical adventures of the extreme, Banlieues Bleues will also be studded with more easily identifiable stars, whose music is more widely accepted: the Argentinian Melingo and his decadent tango, Sam Mangwana and his Congolese rumba, the pianist Harold Lopez-Nussa and his Afro-Cuban jazz, Korokoro and his Afro-beat jazz, are some of the jewels.