Oko

Description

Oko is the orisha that the Yoruba invoke to ask for prodigality, abundance, and fertility. - - Fidel Fourneyron has chosen the study of the Yoruba pantheon (whose vibrancy in the Afro-Caribbean diaspora is the source of incredible musical creativity) as a focus to nourish his imagination and continue developing the aesthetic of a return to the roots of jazz. Born from the meeting of melodic and rhythmic traditions torn from Africa and European harmonic language, jazz, for Fidel Fourneyron, draws its essential strength from its African roots. - - The idea of this new trio is to continue in a small formation the work initiated in a large ensemble with Que Vola, then Bengue: music that takes melody and its rhythmic supports as a starting point for collective play. In this stripped-down trio, without a polyphonic instrument, everything starts from the meeting between the drums and the voice. While allowing for harmonic and formal perspectives drawn from contemporary European music, it is indeed by digging into the earth that the group will draw its strength. - - The quintessential telluric instruments, Antoine Paganotti's drums and Thibaud Soulas's double bass are the foundations of Oko's music, upon which floats the warm breath of Fidel Fourneyron's trombone.