The Void : 9/11 – Recording at St Eustache Church (Paris) Exceptional event !Stomu Yamashta, will play with stones of thousands years old, with the lyric singer Sverrir Gudjonsson and a sacred music singer from Syria, Noma. The sound of zen : 10/11 – Recording at St Eustache Church (Paris) Stomu Yamashta will perform with monks of the purest zen monastery known as the “Daitokuji”.
Jean-Loup Trassard is a famous writer in the Loire Region but also in the whole country because of his talent in litterature and photography. The publishing house Gallimard is presenting his work since 1961 and there are lots of exhibitions of his photographies. He is recognized as a specialist of the agricultural world.
Michel Desjoyeaux, the greatest winner of solitary open sea sailing races, just won for the second time the Vendée Globe, the Everest for sailing, a performance that nobody did before. Even if this 2008/2009 edition was remorseless, two thirds of the fleet were decimated by the Atlantic ocean and Southern seas. Desjoyaux, in spite of two days delay because of technical problems when starting, caught up other competitors and became the first after one month.…
There is a long time now that Charles Lloyd let appear in his spiritualist and syncretic music – taking some spectacular effects from free jazz, some forms and idioms (blues, folk, standards) from tradition and lyricism, mystics from Coltrane – all that his universe owes in oriental philosophy. But the old sage never went so far in such a fusion between jazz and Indian music here, with Zakir Hussain the great tablas master and Eric…
In 1960, in the north of Algeria, war was rampant. But 2000 kms from the battlefield, another project was emerging from within the sands of the Sahara.
