Meïkhâneh / Chants du dehors, chants du dedans (new album 2022)

Meïkhâneh’s compositions are fed by imagination, improvisation and traditional music from Europe, Mongolia and Iran. The luminous and captivating voices carry the power of East European singings, the aerial melodies of the great spaces, as well as the depth of the khöömii, Mongolian overtone singing. One can hear traveling cords recalling the steppes of Asia and Andalusia. The chiseled rhythms of percussion draw on the Persian tradition. Meïkhâneh takes us to the heart of a music without borders that caresses the soul. Its name borrowed from Persian poetry means the «House of Intoxication». We let ourselves be carried… Four years after "La Silencieuse" (Buda Musique 2017), since June 2020, Meïkhâneh has been preparing a new album: "Chants du dehors, chants du dedans" (provisional title). Further affirming the Persian and Mongolian influences of its aesthetic, always borrowing from the imagination, the trio explores the theme of interiority and exteriority, of the cocoon and the vast world, of what is felt and what is said. To be released on Buda Musique label in January 2022. Recording and mixing at Studio du Faune by Bob Coke (Ben Harper, Souad Massi, Mukta, Daby Touré, Moriarty, Bashung, Noir Désir, JL Aubert, Jeff Beck, etc.) Maria Laurent vocals, tovshuur lute, morin khuur fiddle Johanni Curtet overtone khöömii singing, throat singing, guitar, dombra lute Milad Pasta zarb, daf, udu percussions Concert References: Opening act of Susheela Raman, Titi Robin, Trio Chemirani, Natacha Atlas, Las Hermanas Caronni / Bonlieu-scène nationale d’Annecy, musée des Confluences, Festival Là ! C’est de la musique (Avignon OFF), Les Suds à Arles, Étonnants Voyageurs, Joutes musicales de Printemps, Les Détours de Babel, le Sunset, Into the Wild Summer Festival (UK), Woodburner Music Nights (UK), Festival Les Nuits du Monde, l’Alhambra (CH), Le bout du monde (CH), tournée Klangkosmos (DE)… Press References: fRoots, Songlines, BBC, TWMC, WNYC, PRX, PBS, Mundofonias, RTS...