ETIENNE MBAPPE - COUNTRY-SIDE

Who would have thought that Etienne Mbappé had an unspoken dream, that of a Country - Folk Album?

A music he is particularly fond of, this is the project he has decided to develop at Le Baiser Salé throughout his #CarteBlanche and reveal to the public during 2025. By introducing colorful and spicy ingredients from his native Africa, Etienne promises us a journey of calm and soothing, gentle and enveloping, reassuring and comforting sounds, taking us away from the thundering, frenetic urban bustle for the duration of a concert, to explore outside. An in-depth approach to resonating arpeggios and other crystalline sweeps of steel-string acoustic guitars, the basis of the Country-Folk instrumentation. A few notes on the piano, a violin alternately bowed or delicately pizzicatoed, a round, sober bass, a few percussive elements to support the vocals, exchanging flashes with the guitar, cello or mandolin. It's in trio that the magic happens. “COUNTRY - SIDE”, an invisible bridge over the Atlantic Ocean, linking secret African rhythms with American Country-Folk music.