Maurice El Médioni – piano, Claude Maimaran – drums, Raphael Benchimol – derbuka, Mardoche Maimaran – bass guitar Les Hurlements D’Léo: Laulo – vocals, guitar, Rémi – drums, Benziz – saxophone, piano, guitar, Dawed – double bass, Lojo – accordion, trombone, Pépito – trumpet, R1 Wallace – vocals, guitar, Zébulon – violin, guitar According to reliable sources, there are two hundred and forty different types of cheese in France and roughly the same number of musical trends. If we add to th...is the French speaking territory beyond France, then an entire universe of music opens up which would require months of exploration. We can’t undertake such a project now of course, but the performers of our “francophone” taster come from a truly broad geographic and stylistic spectrum. The Francophone Festival was made possible by support from the Bureau Export de la Musique Française Berlin and the Budapest French Institute. Sixty eight year old Maurice El Médioni is one of the “pianorientalist” legends of our era. He was born in Oran and as a self taught pianist created his own unmistakable coffee house style from boogie-woogie, rumba and rai. In the fifties he moved to France where he played with legendary names but then fell into obscurity, only to re-emerge two decades ago with one of the most sensational comebacks of the nineties. His album Café Oran was made with Frank London, David Krakauer, Mahmoud Fadl and Sabah Habas Mustapha and recently he has also recorded a sensational album with Cuban Robert Rodriguez. The Bordeaux based Les Hurlements D’Léo have established themselves over their eleven years career as the most superb “students” of the “Les Negresses Vertes – Mano Negra school”. And yet they have a style of their own: the band overwhelm their audiences with the bohemian mood and poetry of French chansons in both concerts and recorded albums.
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