Kiledjian + La Mentoure
En partenariat avec Premier Jour
David Kiledjian is the creator behind a number of projects (Fowatile, HILA and the successful Dowdelin, to name but a few), producer of albums by Armenian pianist Tigran Hamasyan and Malian band BKO, and collaborator with Talib Kweli, Piers Faccini, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Foreign Beggars, Mathieu Boogaerts and Vaudou Game.
Built around the idea of active idleness dear to the citizens of ancient Rome, his music builds bridges between languages and folklore from the 4 corners of the world, jazz, hip-hop and the electronic avant-garde.
On stage, an intimate trio format: David Kiledjan (piano, flute, sax, vocals), Judith Saurel (violin, vocals) and Claudine Pauly (cello, vocals).
The repertoire of interest to La Mentoure, formed by Elsa Lambey and Florent Briqué, comes from written and sound archives kept at the Maison du patrimoine oral de Bourgogne (Anost, 71). This musical background evokes a way of life that has changed considerably, but which constitutes a singularly rich collective heritage. As well as bringing this music to the public, they want to confront it with the influences that run through it: chanson, traditional music, improvised music, jazz…