Barbatuques (Brazil / body music & vocals)
Booking: world
On tour in Europe: 29.06 to 29.07.2012 & 14.09 to 14.10.2012
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Make your body a real instrument: the Brazilian group Barbatuques has become a reference type. Clap hands, fingers, chest strikes, tap, vocal effects combine to produce rhythms and melodies characteristic of Brazil: samba, baião, afoxé and Maracatu.

Kiala (France-Congo / afro-beat, blues)
Booking: world
All year
New album out 2012 feat. Cyril Atef, Sandra Nkake, Stéphane Belmondo and many more!
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From Lagos' blazing smoky clubs to the Seine's piers, through New York and Los Angeles, persistent memories remain. A founding member of the band Ghetto Blaster and Fela's loyal partner in arms, Kiala has kept the fire going and sparkling. Full of impertinent innovative energy, Kiala blows the afrobeat burning breath. Alive and kicking!

NineteenSeventyNine (France / pop, rock)
Booking: world
All year

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Since their debut in 2005 these five cosmo-rockers have made regular concert appearances and recordings (their song Face to face also featured in the Djinn advertisement by Orange). Under the influence of brit-pop, the band released its first EP in 2009 with the same inspirations that have moved them since their formation: the passion for melody, the energy of sound, the rush of shared experience on stage. The spaceship NineteenSeventyNine makes its way through a romantic, melancholic and mellow universe… Ever heard of "moon-rock"?

Vendeurs d'enclumes (France / chanson-rock)
Booking: world, in collaboration with Macabane and Far Prod
All year
Canada: 01-16.11.2011 (Coup de Coeur Francophone) + 01-15.06.2012
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The French sextet originated from the centre France (Orleans) has been developing an intrigant universe for the last 10 years. From classical music influences to jazzy vibrations, the band takes on the energy of true rock to deliver frantic (french-spoken) songs and live experiences.Cascades of notes, emerging from saxophones, guitars, accordion, drums and bass lines, flood around Valerian Renault's voice and words, then poetry confronts and battle-rhymes with silliness, life and accidentally... love.

The Run (France / ska, rocksteady)
Booking: world, in collaboration with CdW
All year
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The Run revisits the ska and rocksteady from the 80’s with a touch of pop and a drop of soul. With Léon Teoquer on drums (ex Chihuahua), Lolo Ganzaman on bass (ex Chihuahua), with The Commodore on organ and keys (ex Tchen Tchen), Tristan Abgrall on guitar (ex Jad Wio and Matchboxx) and last but not least, François Hett on vocals (ex Grand Orchestre de l’Elysée Montmartre).

Choc Quib Town (Colombia / hip-hop)
Booking: France, Morocco, Tunisia, Lebanon
European tour: summer 2013
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Latin Grammy 2010 - meilleure chanson alternative avec De donde vengo yo.
Choc Quib Town est l'un des phénomènes musicaux les plus importants de ces dernières années en Colombie et l'une des tentatives les plus réussies de revendication de la musique populaire Afro-Colombienne par la jeune génération.
"Chocquibtown cherche porter l'essence chocoana [de la région de Choco d’où ils sont originaires] à tous les lieux où il y a des concerts et aussi à donner une évolution et une plus grande identité au hip-hop colombien..." Rolling Stone (USA)

Mercadonegro (Switzerland / salsa, latin-jazz)
Booking: world
All year
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They met in Europe by coincidence, but it was the love of Latin American rhythms that brought together the members of the project Mercadonegro. The orchestra plays indomitable and hot salsa but is certainly not afraid of including elements from Latin-jazz, son and rap when the temperature needs to be risen to its highest. The band has previously played with Carlos Santana and been a regular backing band for Celia Cruz. But here the music is on the band's own terms and only gets better. Expect a full dance floor with oozing and sweaty Latin club atmosphere when Mercadonegro plays its red-hot music.
Featuring guests: Tito Nieves, Jose Alberto 'El Canario', Alfredo De La Fe, Frankie Morales, Jimmy Bosch, Willie Gonzalez, Cheo Feliciano.

Manosanta (France / latin-roots, tango, cumbia)
Booking: world
All year
Argentina: 11.2011
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Manosanta evokes the old poets, tangos and milongas from Buenos Aires, the swaying hips of cumbia, the urban rhythms of Marseille. Images from old Solanas films (El Sur, The Exile of Gardel...), old Mexican movies, some of Almodovar, dancing with voices and guitars from the underground roads of Latin America.

Jaleo Real (Spain / rumba, reggae, flamenco, hip-hop)
Booking: world, except Spain
All year
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Jaleo Real comes from the suburbs of Barcelona. Their music plays with elements of reggae, rumba, tango, flamenco, Cuban son and hip-hop. The true urban mestizo, the real rumba callejera full of joy and energy Contagious...

Black Gandhi (Spain / reggae, funk, soul)
Booking: world, except Spain, Germany and Benelux
All year
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Black Gandhi was born since 3 Argentinians, one Cuban and one Dutch met in Barcelona and decided to work as a family and to spread out their positive vibes and feelings. This young and promising band gathers Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy and Black music into a Latin funky reggae, danceable and contagious, which definitely takes all its dimension on stage...

Joe Bataan & Los Fulanos (USA-Spain / salsoul, boogaloo)
Booking: Europe, except Spain
On request
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They say a cat has nine lives, and Joe Bataan has lived a multitude of them in his long illustrious career. Though out of the scene for many years, Joe is back in great form now with this excellent new hard-core Latin Soul project with the Barcelona based Latin funk group Los Fulanos.

Tanya Tagaq (Canada / contemporary throat singing)
Booking: France, Morocco, Tunisia, Lebanon
On request
21.06. to 08.07.2012 avec Aymeric Hainaux : Siestes Electroniques + Abbaye de Fontevraud
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Tanya Tagaq nous vient du Nunavut, une des provinces nordiques du Canada. Elle s’essaye au chant de gorge, jeux inuit où deux femmes chantent pour évoquer les paysages et les animaux, chacune tentant de tenir le plus longtemps possible. Partant de cette tradition, elle réinvente un monde dans lequel son expression vocale étonnante, croise les ondulations électroniques et le groove d’une contrebasse, d’un violoncelle ou d’une batterie.
Invités: Michael Red (DJ), Jean Martin (batterie+fx), Jesse Zubot (violon+fx).
Duo vocal contemporain avec Aymeric Hainaux.

ZE BROWN (Brazil / hip-hop, repente)
Booking: Europe
On tour with Skowa from Trio Mocotó: 06 + 07.2012
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"Long before rap’s existence, the repente, a call-and-response singing, was already there in Brazil’s sertão or arid backcountry. In short, those were battles between speakers, a tradition that Zé Brown collects from Recife. At côco’s rhythm, with a pandeiro and a bass, he answers to his guest, Castanha (from the successful rural couple Cajú & Castanha), in hip-hop terms. His album, entitled “Repente, rap, repente” and produced by Skowa (from Trio Mocotó), is the trace of union between two worlds (city and country) and two Americas." Rémy Kolpa Kopoul

BRIGITTE (France / indie, folk)
Booking: Export
Canada: 08-16.06.2012
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A blonde asked a brunette in a falafel shop of la rue des Rosiers in Paris, "Do you want to make music with me?" The brunette had a smile and said "yes!"... With a small guitar with butterflies on it... a glockenspiel... a melodika... a mac... two voices… four hands... two heads... one room... Because of Brigitte Bardot, Brigitte Lahaye, Brigitte femme de flic, Brigitte Fontaine, and Brigitte the old aunt of girl next door... Brigitte was born... Les Pétroleuses, Brigitte Bardot, Marylin Monroe, les hommes preferent les blondes, good wine, champagne, men, Johnny Cash, the dark side , the funny side and the pathetic side of the night... the milk chocolate, the green tea, the Andrews's sisters, boys, the French accent, the mistakes...
Released in late April 2011, a gold record for Brigitte "Et vous, tu m'aimes ?" (Wagram) [June, 2011]
"Et vous, tu m'aimes ?" (Wagram) is now platinum album! [October, 2011]