Lagon Nwar

Lagon Nwar is an investigation of memory, eyes in the puddle, blood sober and liquid.

Saxophonist Quentin Biardeau and bassist Valentin Ceccaldi, both from the flamboyant Tricollectif, invite us to a meeting with singer Ann O'aro from Reunion Island and drummer, percussionist and singer Marcel Balboné from Burkina Faso.

The quartet sketch out the shores on which to land, in the depths of time.

A tight smile at the corner of their lips.

Electric telescoping, swirling synthesizers dying on the bitter dregs of a fender bass, disengaged lyrics arguing their joual as well as their créole, signing with their fingers a poetry to deflate the corals from which fly the bissa melodies and the raging verve of a saxophone torn from the lively race of the wet bimdé.

The battery of calabashes, with or without strings, underlines the contours of a dialogue between Burkina Faso and the Mascarene Islands, Paris and Ouaga.

Lagon noir is all about the salty taste of water, rain-laden curls, the port and its armaments, the fading of the colonies.