The Carambolage has become an unmissable event in Florida. Two groups, or two artists, who have never met, play together on stage and confront their worlds, sometimes diametrically opposed.
On Friday evening, two groups discovered each other in the Agenaise hall: Montparnasse Musique and the Commandos Percus. The latter had already been noticed during the Agen celebrations at the end of August. The pyrotechnics embellished marvelously the martial blows carried on their percussions. Percussions all the more original as the musicians tinker with them themselves. “The idea was to have mobile instruments”, explain the three Commandos we met before the evening. “We were not in aesthetic research, but in necessity. We acquired some notions in carpentry, and that’s how we set up our percussion”. Tin cans, parts that look like parts of exhaust pipes, and even a washing machine drum. And the whole thing sounds very, very good. You have to imagine four drummers trying to complement each other. At the origin of their project, an observation: since, a few years earlier, people no longer went to concerts a lot, it was up to the concert to come to them. This is how the Commandos Percus go out to meet their audience, with their transportable orchestra.
They might only agree with Montparnasse Musique. Around the producer Nadjib Ben Bella, two DJs and percussionists made up and costumed like ancestral appearances. Techno, afrohouse and traditional acoustic African music is like a cry from the depths of time. A cry came to resound on the scene of Florida Saturday evening, in a deluge of blows. A set for each formation, then a set bringing them together: successful pileup!
