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Like other evenings of the Relâche festival, these two will therefore seek to find correspondences between the rhythms that have inspired rappers and music that is close to them. This, by reprogramming artists that we do not often – if ever – see in Gironde. MC Yallah for example. Headlining Friday, this Englishwoman of Kenyan origin is a member of the Nyege Nyege collective, at the crossroads between hip-hop, grime, African music and experimental electro.
Influences that can be found in Art Melody, a Burkinabe rapper launched by the Bordeaux label Tentacule records, and nourished as much by traditional music from his country as by IAM and the Wu-Tang Clan. This first poster is completed with Too Many Zooz, a baritone sax-trumpet-percussion trio who made a name for themselves in the New York subway by playing an improbable mix of funk, jazz and rock. And notably by covering “Smells Like Teen Spirit” or “I Will Survive”.
We add a touch of electro and we get Sax Machine, the headliner of Saturday, born from the meeting between an American rapper and two French blowers (saxophones and trombone) who also pilot machines. That will be following Englishman Eldon and Americans AJ Suede and RAP Ferreira have shared the turntables and microphones in what is announced as a long improvisation, passing through experimental hip-hop as much as funk or jazz. “We have more than a thousand interested people on our facebook page, points out Francis Vidal. Yet this lineup is much darker than the rest of our festival. »
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