Pôle Musical d’Orgemont – Épinay-sur-seine
La Crèche Orchestra
This concert is an invitation to travel to Kinshasa, and more specifically to the roof terrace of the Hôtel La Crèche in the bustling Matongé district. The Orchestre de la Crèche perpetuates vintage Congolese rumba (the ‘belle époque’ of the 50s and 60s), a music that marked the history of decolonisation and got the whole of Africa dancing.
29 March- 5pm
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La fabrique de la Flèche – Saint-Denis
Vincent Moon’s Live Cinéma
Nomadic video artist Vincent Moon offers a unique immersive experience combining cinema and sound rituals in a four-screen installation. Drawing on his collection of films captured around the world, he presents music as a form of collective medicine.
29 March – 12 noon
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Espace Paul Éluard – Stains
Naïssam Jalal
Naïssam Jalal presents Landscapes of Eternity, a hypnotic fusion of contemporary jazz and North Indian classical music. Blending flute, voice and traditional instruments, it’s an invitation to a spiritual journey, a bridge suspended between cultures for a sound experience of great serenity.
2 April – 8.30pm
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Houdremont Cultural Centre – La Courneuve
Kabareh Cheikhats
This evening celebrates freedom and festivity with Moroccan collective Kabareh Cheikhats, who pay tribute to traditional female singers by combining theatre, dance and folk trance. They are accompanied by La Louuve, whose DJ set fuses raï, electronic sounds and music from the Arab world. It’s a festive and committed immersion, between tradition and modernity, designed to make people dance and break codes.
3 April – 8.30pm
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The Académie Fratellini – Saint-Denis
Love & Revenge Agmal Layali
This project revisits the legendary repertoire of Oum Kalthoum, combining classical Arab melodies, electric oud and electronic textures. This visual concert sublimates the popular heritage of the Middle East through poetic diversions from film archives. In the second half, Marseille DJ Mystique extends the immersion with a hybrid set exploring raï, rap and the rhythms of the global South.
3 April – 8.30pm
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Mains d’Œuvres – Saint-Ouen
Asmaa Hamzaoui & Bnat Timbouktou
Asmaa Hamzaoui & Bnat Timbouktou, a pioneering gnawa group that has modernised this traditional form of music.Asmaa Hamzaoui & Bnat Timbouktou, a pioneering fairy-tale group that is modernising this Moroccan spiritual tradition, and Houssam Guinia, heir to a line of masters, who takes the mystical trance of the guembri to new heights of energy. DJ Retro Cassetta concludes the event with an electrifying set based on his unique collection of vintage cassettes from the 80s and 90s (raï, chaâbi, rock).
9 April – 8.30pm
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La Galerie du 19M – Aubervilliers
Kiala Ogawa
Discover a double bill exploring the links between music and memory. Kiala Ogawa presents Sketches of Memories, an introspective work combining afrobeat, electronica and acoustic sounds to evoke memories of her childhood in Japan. In the second half, the prodigious pianist Koki Nakano joins forces with the dancer Alice Godfrey for an original performance in which neoclassical music dialogues with the movement of the body, an invitation to a delicate journey between Tokyo and Paris, at the crossroads of artistic disciplines.
15 April – 8pm
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L’Embarcadère – Aubervilliers
Etuk Ubong + Konono n°1 & Montparnasse Musique
This evening promises to be an explosion of African rhythms, starting with Nigeria’s Etuk Ubong, whose funky, Earth Music jazz blends Afrobeat, highlife and committed improvisation. In the second half, the legendary Congolese combo Konono n°1 make their comeback with a brand new creation in collaboration with the producers of Montparnasse Musique. Together, they fuse their electrified likembes and DIY whistles with pan-African electronic influences to bring the festival to a fitting close.
17 April – 8.30pm
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