TRAVERSÉES | PÈLERINAGES MANDINGUES

Everywhere, from time immemorial, the Word has been embodied by the bard, the troubadour, the griot. These wordsmiths, at once messengers and peacemakers, are the links with the forces of nature, the inexpressible divine, the memory of the ancients. It falls to them to maintain the realm of the collective soul. Nowadays, these freethinkers and travellers are making the world their garden… like Kiya Tabassian, the virtuoso of Persian setar and Ablaye Cissoko, griot from Saint-Louis, Senegal, both eternally migrating birds. This meeting between Ablaye and Constantinople, between strings and vocals, goes back in time to evoke the beauty of being. It is a joint passage through the common sites of the imagination, like a long breath before the inexorable march of the world and time.

TRAVERSÉES | PÈLERINAGES MANDINGUES

Concert enregistré le samedi 2 octobre 2021

Salle Pierre-Bourgie du Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal 20e saison de Constantinople

00:00:00 - RÊVERIES - Kiya Tabassian 00:05:42 - MARYAMA - Ablaye Cissoko / Kiya Tabassian; poème de Hafez (1325-1390) 00:12:24 - ESTUAIRE - Kiya Tabassian / Ablaye Cissoko 00:18:23 - DENKILO - Ablaye Cissoko 00:23:41 - VERS ISFAHAN - Kiya Tabassian / Ablaye Cissoko 00:27:43 - AHOUYE VAHSHI - Kiya Tabassian ; poème de Hafez 00:32:47 - TRAVERSÉES - Kiya Tabassian / Ablaye Cissoko 00:35:53 - SIRIFO - Kiya Tabassian / Ablaye Cissoko 00:39:36 - DÉPARTS - Kiya Tabassian; poème d’Amir Khosro Dehlavi (1253-1325) / Ablaye Cissoko 00:47:18 - POISSON AU FOND DE L’OCÉAN, Kiya Tabassian, Ablaye Cissoko 00:53:04 - SOLO DE PERCUSSION, Patrick Graham 00:58:37 - SOUTOURO, Ablaye Cissoko 01:06:03 - KAILEN - Ablaye Cissoko / Kiya Tabassian

KIYA TABASSIAN, SÉTAR & VOIX ABLAYE CISSOKO, KORA & VOIX PATRICK GRAHAM, PERCUSSION