A duet in the simplest device – a voice and a guitar – where poetry and matter blend, setting fire on the powder of highly seductive chemistry. With his acoustic guitar in open tuning, Mathieu Sourisseau deploys sonorous landscapes, navigates between blues, noise-folk, rock or improvised music. A monochromatic canvas that makes fun of its own nuances, on which Mike Ladd gives life to his texts. Chanson, rap or scansion, the poetry in English grazes auto-biography, delivers some keys to the lost lovers, grand-mother Rose left for North Carolina, some of the craziest days spent in the Bronx or in Paris, or even revolt and the emancipating role of Afro-American literature.

We are simply passing through the earth, all experiencing the same migration, from dust to dust. Music itself is a vector of migration, from within to beyond. We are also living in a time where living beings are and will be increasingly forced to migrate, from their primary habitat to a potentially better adapted elsewhere. This music, sprinkled with emblematic texts by Martin Luther King, Marie José Mondzain, Abbé Pierre among others, is an invitation to the acceptance of others, in their common points, as much as in their differences, an invitation to welcome, to hospitality, to kindness. Six Migrant Pieces are 6 people from varied origins, all formidable internationally recognized musicians, met at one point of their different migrations in the cosmopolitan city of Paris. Tasty and subtle combination mixing France, of course, but also Italy, Belgium, Brazil, Ukraine, Scandinavia, the 6 compositions of Christophe Monniot, written precisely for these 6 musicians, are nourished by the mixture of their own cultures, as well as particular tastes of the composer for certain illustrious elders who have left a lasting mark on the history of music. We will cite Olivier Messiaen, Weather Report, Leonard Bernstein, Wynton Marsalis, Allan Holdsworth. Music conceived as a permanent journey, a perpetual migratory flow.