Le sable et l'écume

Description

Multi-instrumentalist, composer, improviser, and poet, Titi Robin plays the guitar, bouzouq, and ‘oud, and is the exclusive author of his many projects, regularly blending literature and music. He records his repertoire in Europe as well as in India, Turkey, and Morocco. His music, influenced by European, gypsy, and Eastern styles, travels the world and captivates with its originality. His quest for harmony between cultures from different backgrounds makes him a true "traveling musician." His music has notably been shaped by his admiration for flamenco cantaor Camaron de la Isla and Iraqi ‘oud master Munir Bachir. Titi Robin has toured worldwide, from the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles to the Tata Theater in Bombay, and has regularly collaborated with artists such as Indian Rajasthan dancer Gulabi Sapera and Lahore qawwal Faiz Ali Faiz. - - his new album Quatuor Le Sable et l’Écume. "The grains of sand and the foam have drawn on his tender skin the map of a world on fire" - - Words that Titi Robin expresses in a poem he writes in response to the cultural shocks faced by the Mediterranean world. A sentiment that has inspired a new repertoire centered on sharing. He invites a new instrumental formation of soloists here – tenor saxophone, clarinet, English horn, double bass, percussion – to compose original tracks where tradition is always present in a warm album. - - "The musical reunion that this quartet represents aims for me at a form of ideal trustful abandonment among soloists who, through their backgrounds and aesthetic approaches to improvised discourse, have made their mark in a vast contemporary creative world that lovingly includes the modernities of the Mediterranean universe, Eastern Europe, and the rich schools of the South that have seen us grow. This aesthetic maturity nourishes exchanges and invention, introspection, sharing, embodied instrumental timbres, through modal cultures and polyrhythms that are our language. I am delighted to invite the virtuosic vibration of the skins struck by Ze Luis Nascimento, the generous warmth and woody sound of the beautiful double bass of Chris Jennings, and the limitless sophistication of the winds from the subtle player Renaud-Gabriel Pion to this musical meeting, and I thank these three loyal friends for agreeing to play again in the game of artistic reunions. Our worlds and our lives, our dreams and our struggles, there is so much to say that only free and radical music can express." Titi Robin