Orchestra of Samples

We’re currently working on our project Orchestra of Samples, a long-term all encompassing sampling extravaganza, featuring recorded musicians from around the world, from Mexico to Senegal, Brazil to France. Sampling ‘sans frontières’ you might say!

string instruments

guitar bass double bass bouzouki banjo cobza jaranas harp kanun guitarron violin oud kora hoddu ngoni guembri gombri viola cavaquinho berimbau

wind instruments

flute saxophone ney pipe bagpipe bombard biniou whistle trumpet harmonica

percussions

drums djembe tabla flamenco box hang kayamb taiko qraqeb castanets talking drums darbuka pandeiro reco-reco

keyboards

piano accordion

voices

circuit bending

UNITED KINGDOM

Kuljit Bhamra My Real Name Is Starship Chris Birkett

FRANCE

Professor Oz Cyril Atef Ommm Sarah Olivier Stephen Harrison D de Kabal Djeli Moussa Conde Nëggus Kungabram Djmawi Africa Khalil Chekir Gatha Lyse Erwan Keravec Guénolé Keravec Ivonig Le Mestre Mathieu Sérot Magali Le Sciellour Marie Wambergue Patrick Oustric Christian Conejero

SPAIN

Livika Luis Ortega

ROMANIA

Trei Parale Calin Torsan

MEXICO

Mariachi Munazul César Juarez Héctor Vega Delo Humberto Alvarez

TUNISIA

Seifeddine Helal Hamdi Makhlouf Zouhheir Gouja

SENEGAL

Baye Fall Ndem Abdoul Mbaye Pape Mass Massamba Diop Matador I-Science Matar Diagne

MAURITANIA

Demba Fakourou

MALI

Oumar Kouyaté

BRAZIL

Mazinho Quevedo Antonio Candido Andréa dos Santos Marina Mara Patubatê Samba de Responsa

ISRAEL

Nir Yaniv Aram Drevekenin Ira Bareli Tal Segev

ITALY

Mos

EGYPT

Mohammed Antar

INDIAN OCEAN

Bo Houss Maya Kamaty

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Canal93 Recording Sessions #1

In June 2012, during a two day recording session at the venue Canal 93 in the Paris suburb of Bobigny, we worked with over a dozen talented musicians, including members of a number of World music acts from places as far afield as Algeria and Togo.

Djeli Moussa Conde - www.djelimoussaconde.com
We were fortunate enough to do a recording session with the famously fantastic kora-player Djeli Moussa Conde, originally from Guinea. An urban griot-like rocker who's lived in France now for nearly 20 years, he’s collaborated with many of World music's top international stars including Manu Dibango, Salif Keïta, Mory Kante, Alpha Blondy and Césaria Evora. He’s just released an album with fellow band-members Vincent Lasalle on drums and Jouni Isoherranen on bass who we also recorded.

Nëggus & Kungabram - www.neggusetkungobram.com
Nëggus is a poet, rapper and a spoken word slamer from Togo with an incredibly deep and hypnotic voice. An outspoken artist who writes about the human condition, he’s now collaborating with the African-inspired quintet Kungobram - which includes saxophonist Adrien Roch, who we also recorded a session with.

Djmawi Africa - www.djmawi-africa.com
Formed in 2004 by Algerian guitarist-singer Jamil, Djmawi Africa now boasts nine musicians playing both traditional and modern instruments, their style variying from reggae to Algerian chaabi. Performing internationally, they recently recorded their second album at Canal 93, where we were able to record Jamil playing the guembri guitar and some of his fellow band members Fethi on violin, Zouhir on darbuka drums and Mhamed on saxophone.

Khalil Chekir - www.facebook.com/khalil.chekir
Tunisian-born Khalil has been playing the kanun since the age of nine. The kanun is a very complex oriental harp with microtonal subtlety, it dates back to the 10th Century and has been enjoying a revival since the mid-19th Century. Khalil’s versatile style has allowed him to collaborate with a number of different artists, including Lebanese singer songwriter and cultural icon Wadi El Safi, tunisian singer Syrine Ben Moussa and French artist Moussa Youssouf from the Indian Ocean islands of Comoros.