XAVIER BELIN - "PLÉONASME 4" DRUM SPECIAL

"The terms 'Caribbean jazz', 'Creole jazz', 'Afro-descendant jazz' and 'woucikam jazz' have often been used to define my music. In my opinion, these terms are pleonasms, but they are also the most appropriate for determining my musical influences and the music I create."

Pléonasme is the name Xavier Belin has chosen for a multi-faceted, constantly evolving musical project. Over the seasons, Pléonasme has become a free musical laboratory, inventing forms, encounters and sound materials that escape the usual frameworks. Each edition explores a new terrain. For this 4th season, Xavier Belin puts the drums at the centre of the game. An invitation to discover and hear drums in a different way. Ka drums, voodoo drums, Haitian drums, Guyanese drums, Amerindian drums: they all have their own language, their own timbre, their own breath. They are instruments of struggle, ritual and connection. They are tools of communication, memory and creation. Through them, the musicians explore a repertoire combining revisited covers, collective improvisations and new rhythms, fed by the trio's raw energy. The residency at Baiser Salé will be an opportunity to develop this sound material over time. Not a fixed concert, but a series of meetings where the project breathes, transforms and refines itself. It's a way of building music in public, through listening, intensity and play.