Polar Dwarfs

Description

Polar Dwarfs is a new project initiated by Stéphane Galland (Ibrahim Maalouf, Aka Moon). For this adventure, he contacted Adriaan Van de Velde (better known as Pomrad) to launch a duo project that would blend both acoustic and electronic drum sounds with keyboards. The two musicians met in a rehearsal room to create together a new original music that gave birth to "Polar Dwarfs" in early 2019, with the album recorded the following year. The music of Polar Dwarfs is a mix of jazz and electro, which also contains influences from various world music that have nourished Stéphane Galland's journey throughout his career. The story of the "Polar Dwarfs" is that one night, while they were walking on the ice cap admiring splendid northern lights in the sky, the goddess Yhi appeared to them and blessed them with her benevolent energy. From then on, our two polar dwarfs had a mission: to spread this magical energy across the Earth and beyond. For this project, Stéphane Galland wanted to connect the world of electro to his approach to contemporary jazz and create original music that would feature familiar elements mixed with new rhythmic aspects, incorporating some approaches he developed while working with some of the greatest musicians from around the world. Buckle up and follow the two Polar Dwarfs on their exciting adventures around the Earth and on other planets...