LAGON NOIR, c’est polar.
« An inquest of memory, eyes in the puddle, blood sober and liquid.
Saxophonist Quentin Biardeau and bassist Valentin Ceccaldi, both from the flamboyant Tricollectif, invite us to a encounter with Reunionese singer Ann O’aro and Burkinabe drummer-percussionist-singer Marcel Balboné.
The quartet draws shores on which to land, in the depths of time. A tight smile at the edge of their lips.
Electric telescoping, swirling synthesizers dying on the bitter dregs of a fender bass, disengaged lyrics arguing their joual as well as their créole, signing with their fingers a poetry to defresh the corals from which fly the bissa melodies and the raging verve of a saxophone torn from the lively race of the wet bimdé. The drums of calabashes, with or without strings, underline the outlines of a dialogue between Burkina and Mascareignes, Paris and Ouaga.
Lagon noir is the salty taste of water, the curls weighed down by rain, the port and its armaments, the fading of colonies. »
Ann O’aro
Marcel BALBONÉ Vocals, drums, koundé
Quentin BIARDEAU Tenor saxophone, synthesizers
Valentin CECCALDI Bass
Ann O’ARO Vocals
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