Ondes from Bahrain

Une interview de l'artiste chanteur, guitariste et compositeur burkinabé Bino.bah !

It was a crazy idea to bring together the Oud and the Viola da Gamba, two traditional instruments from very different cultures. It was also a challenge to put side by side Arab and Western poets, from all eras. To see how they could dialogue and testify together as a unity.

It is however this challenge that the show "Fratarabie" has accepted. In the same show, the Arabic language and the French language, Verlaine and Ibn Battuta, the harmony of the Oud and the harmony of the Viola.

A tasty mixture of languages and melodies coming from different countries. Two cultures that a younger generation wishes to see more collaboration for the benefit of all, to deliver a message of peace.

The texts spoken with passion by Hadia Laghsini and Alexandre Risso answer to the notes of the Oud of Hussam Aliwat and Valentin Tournet's Viola de Gambe. The spectator is captivated by the symbolic force of these vocal and musical presences. The meditation invites itself and continues naturally once the actors have left and the instruments put away."

The Compagnie de l'Homme is a French theater company.

With this project "Fratarabie", Alexandre Risso, Hadia Laghsini and Valentin Tournet take the path of a theme that is dear to them. That of intercultural dialogue.

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We are pleased to share with you the third episode of our podcast, dedicated to the French artist Paul Lay and the Bahraini group Dawas Band that we have received at the Alliance Française of Bahrain for an exclusive concert.

As a multi-facetted pianist whose original style has been nurtured over the last ten years by working with so many different musicians, Paul Lay ranks among France’s leading jazz musicians. After graduating from the CNSM (Paris Conservatory) in 2010, Paul released his first album, Unveiling, with Simon Tailleu and Elie Duris, to glowing reviews from the critics. Over the last ten years he has won prestigious awards at national and international jazz piano competitions. Paul enjoys working with different musicians in original formats. He is also a successfull sideman. Paul enjoys working with different musicians in original formats.
Website : www.paul-lay.com/

The Ismail Dawas Group represents traditional Bahraini music and was established in 1935. Their music preserves the continuity of Bahrain's ancient arts to remain immortal and bequeathed to future generations.

The encounter of these artists led to an unexpected and unique concert at the Alliance Francaise Bahrain, which you can listen to in this episode.

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This episode of our podcast "Waves from Bahrain" is dedicated to our Digital November programmation.
This episode features an original and exclusive work by the Bahraini artist Kayan Music, followed by an interview with the French artist Kaspar Ravel.

Novembre Numérique (Digital November) is an invitation to question the place of digital cultures in our societies, to increase the awareness of the general public to the new uses of digital technologies, while discovering the richness and diversity of digital creations, from media art to new forms of digital narratives, from immersive theater to interactive music, etc.

It underlines the commitment of the Institut français and the Alliance Française Bahrain to facilitating the general public’s access to new technologies, to showcasing the strong diversity of French creations, to building long-lasting partnerships with Bahrain professionals and to enabling international collaborations between artists, professionals and the audience

Kayan is a DJ, producer and musician.
Her life experiences are compiled into the productions and performances that she creates today.
Every Kayan's live performance is different, unique and original as she blends organic grooves, soundscapes, beats,remixes, tracks, with a wide variety of samples combined with heavy basslines that spontaneously activate the dance floor.
Kayan is a sonic journey that interweaves human emotion and through sounds and mixed media, composing and performing live with layers of sparking electronic music creating hypnotic melodies and harmonies that resonate with the crowd.

Kaspar Ravel
He is a new media artist off and online curator. Coming from the subcultures of art the internet, he studies computer science and theatre at Sorbonne universities to explore the surreal poetic politics of data today.
As a DIY hacker, he navigates through technological innovations in order to dissect, understand and alter current standards. The aim being to reappropriate them as spaces of practice expérimentale and integrate alternative ideologies into them. Often working on analogies between physical and digital bodies, it establishes popular languages aimed at demystifying technology - questioning interface concepts - and exposing virtual realities co-existing with the world we live in.

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The Alliance française de Bahreïn is proud to reveal the first episode of its podcast "Waves from Bahrain" dedicated to French and Bahraini culture. This podcast will be an opportunity to highlight local and French-speaking artists through interviews and original creations. Following the release of the collection of short stories Ar Xudi and the short story Loving 2 by Bruno Lemoine, we decided to create this new format for cultural creation and diffusion.
Our first episode is dedicated to two artists: Hasan Hujairi, Bahraini composer and writer and Bruno Lemoine, French writer. It is the meeting of text and sound, the news of anticipation and electronic music.

Hasan Hujairi (b. 1982) is a Bahraini artist, composer, and writer. His work often explores the notion of the outsider, confronting (historiographic) superstructures, and the nature of constructing narratives within time. He holds a DMA (Doctor of Musical Arts) in music composition from Seoul National University (Seoul, South Korea), where he researched reorienting the narrative associated with the maverick composer tradition to be more inclusive of composers working outside the Western classical music tradition.

Bruno Lemoine is currently a teacher. He has given courses in French as a foreign language in Burgundy, Saône-et-Loire and Paris. His work in literature revolves around the notion of heteronomy dear to the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa. Bruno LEMOINE is a "multiple name" whose biography changes according to publications. He is currently writing a non-fiction about the American artist and "multiple name" Emmett GROGAN .

Welcome to the podcast of the Alliance Française Bahrain, "Waves from Bahrain".

We are pleased to announce our podcast dedicated to the French-Bahraini cultural creation. Indeed, this podcast will be the opportunity to highlight local and French-speaking artists through interviews and original creations, according to the cultural program of the Alliance Française and its partners.