Musicians

Désiré Somé: bassist.

  • Desire
  • Guitarist from Burkina Fasso specialized in African music. Royal Conservatory of Brussels for jazz. Teacher in professional development workshops in jazz. He is as well a multi-instrumentalist. Desiré attended numerous festivals.

Malika Messaoudi: Vocals.

  • Malika
  • Classical and jazz training (in Paris) as a saxophonist. Malika is as well a songwriter and performer of Franco-Italian-Berber origin. She lent her voice in studios with several artists from the world music scene in Paris as Iness Mèzel, Djurdjura, Cheb Kader, Djamal Allam, Takfarinas, Raï na raï, Elik Tara, The Girls and many others.

Olivier Crespel: guitar.

  • Olivier
  • This polyvalent guitarist, born in France, studied different musical styles, as the flamenco, the cuban son, the brazilian choro as west-african rhythms. He participated several projects such as Tounga (multicultural group of cuban and african music) and Kel Assouf (touaregmusic, desertblues). With Idirad he can develop his passion for berbermusic, nord-african rhythms and maghrebian tunes.

Jordi Grognard: flutes, saxophone, clarinet.

  • Jordi
  • Jordi studied the clarinet at the academie. Because he's interested in improvisation, he follows jazz-courses, stages and masterclasses and learns the tenor- and sopranosaxophone. At the Conservatory in Brussels he learns the basclarinet and transverse flute. He also plays different blow instruments he brought from exotic places. Jordi plays jazz with the group Moker, afro-groove/ethiopian jazz with Yôkaï and french chanson with Pascale Delagnes.

Mourad Mouheb: bendir, krakeb.

  • Mourad
  • A man from the scene. He likes partying and he Ia art of livening in a concert by his frantic percussion set that leads the public to a feeling of trance.

Idir Aït Dahmane: singer-songwriter, guitar, algerian mandole

  • Idir
  • Music academy and jazz classes. Guitarist in several bands before forming his own band with his own compositions.Autodidact for the algerian mandole.