Colourful music at the crossroads of Africa, the Caribbean, India and unexplored continents. Here we meet emblematic members of the melodic percussion family: the ancestor, the african balafon, it's digital descendant the MIDIvibraphone, and their West Indian cousin the steelpan. They are accompanied by rhythmic percussion: drums and Indian tablas. They share the same languages - those of jazz and world music, interpreted by Gert Kilian on balafon, steel pan, derbouka, krins and vocals, Laurent Marc on MIDI vibraphone and Frédéric Cavallin on drums and tablas.
Gert Kilian (balafon, steel-pan, krins, composition)
Gert travels between musical worlds - world music, jazz and pop. Initially a drummer and percussionist, his musical research trips to West Africa, Papua New Guinea, Australia, India and Trinidad & Tobago led him to his favourite instrument, the balafon, one of the ancestors of keyboard percussion. After nineteen albums with Drumpact, Kâla, Les Zoulousains, Looping, Argile & african heat, Orexis and Voyages Africains, he founded the Magic Mallets trio with Laurent Marc, who plays the Midi vibraphone, the latest descendant in the family of melodic percussion instruments, and drummer and Indian tabla player Frédéric Cavallin. Author of the method "Balafon Beat"and the DVD "The Balafon with Aly Keita & Gert Kilian".
Laurent Marc (vibraphone MIDI, composition)
Active on the Toulouse music scene since the late 80s as a vibraphonist (Kitty-Clac, Drumpact, Mescalito, Mélétunétron, Swing 39, NÔ the project). His musical career has brought him into contact with musicians such as Pierre Boussaguet, Richard Calleja, Christophe Lartilleux, Akim Bournane, Habib Julien, Gert Kilian, Serge Faubert, Matthieu Royer, Malik Richeux, Christian TonTon Salut, Jacky Grandjean, Olivier Brousse, François Parisi, Françoise Guerlin, Eric and Serge Caséro, Aldo Guinart and Ali Alaoui. Music teacher at Music-Halle / Toulouse since 1990. He has composed and produced original music for over a hundred Toboclic and Mobiclic CD-ROMs (Editions Milan).
Frédéric Cavallin (drums, tabla)
Frédéric Cavallin started playing drums at the age of eight, studying at the Dante Agostini school and then at the Music-Halle school in Toulouse.He discovered oriental percussion with Ali Alaoui, and since 2000 he has been studying with the Indian tabla player Debashish Brahmachari. Frédéric is fascinated by the idea of Béla Bartok's "Folklore Imaginaire", without being locked into his Occitan-Italian-Spanish roots. He has been very active on the Toulouse scene since the late 90s. He has played and recorded with Pulcinella, Hervé Suhubiette, La Friture moderne, Bazaar Boutik, Eric Lareine, Orlando Trio, Anticyclone Trio, Patrick Vaillant, Les éléments, JUR, Companhia Crestian Josuèr, James Carlès, Laurent Avizou, Alain Larribet. Habib Julien, Gert Kilian, Serge Faubert, Matthieu Royer, Malik Richeux, Christian Ton Ton Salut, Jacky Grandjean, Olivier Brouse, François Parisi, Françoise Guerlin, Eric and Serge Casero.
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