San Salvador n’est pas un concert de musique d’îles lointaines…
San Salvador c’est un concert radical chanté à six voix, deux toms, douze mains et un tambourin. Alliant l’énergie et la poésie brute des musiques populaires à une orchestration savante, le concert est l’alchimie subtile d’harmonies vocales douces et hypnotiques sauvagement balayées par une rythmique implacable.
Il en résulte un moment déroutant dans un mix entre tragique et joyeux, d’une rare intensité à la croisée de la transe, d’un choeur punk et de constructions math-rock ; dansant et chaleureux ; hyper-rythmiques et haletant.

Thibault CHAUMEIL (Chant, Tom Bass) ; Eva DURIF ( Chant, mains) ; Gabriel DURIF (Chant Tambourin) ; Marion LHERBEIL (Chant, Tom Bass) ; Laure NONIQUE-DESVERGNES (Chant, Mains) ; Sylvestre NONIQUE-DESVERGNES (Chant, cymbale de défilé miniature, Grosse caisse).

Occitan polyphony is the starting point for this six-voice and percussion collective as they embark on their search for universal folklore, rooted in the region’s deep troubadour traditions yet circulating between cultures and musical genres. Their compositions use the Occitan language as a rhythmic instrument, combining poetry with hypnotic vocal harmonies cascading over shifting patterns of compelling percussion.

In the performance work ‘La Grande Folie’, they question the myth of an unalterable ‘heritage’, seeking instead ‘to answer the question of the boundaries between tradition and creation. An answer to those who say that music has a beginning and an end’. It’s a joyful quest that sees them following every path from the crossroads of trance, choral punk, global vocalese and math-rock constructions; modern Occitan troubadours at large in the world.

Gabriel Durif – vocals, tambourine ; Eva Durif – vocals ; Thibault Chaumeil – vocals, tom bass ; Marion Lherbeil – vocals, tom bass ; Laure Nonique Desvergnes – vocals ; Sylvestre Nonique Desvergnes – vocals, drums