{"id":41337,"date":"2019-10-22T15:51:55","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T13:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/the-french-festival-trans-musicales-unveiled-the-full-line-up-for-its-41st-edition\/"},"modified":"2021-03-09T18:01:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T17:01:03","slug":"trans-musicales-festival-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/trans-musicales-festival-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"The French festival Trans Musicales unveiled the full line-up for its 41st edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31415 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Coco-EM-Trans.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Coco-EM-Trans.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Coco-EM-Trans-759x531.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Coco-EM-Trans-1010x707.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Coco-EM-Trans-661x463.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Coco-EM-Trans-465x326.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Coco-EM-Trans-375x263.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Trans Musicales more than ever resonates with truly global sounds.<\/h4>\n<p>Started in 1979, the 3-day-event is considered as\u00a0one of Europe\u2019s most respected events.\u00a0Dedicated to\u00a0exploring the trends that will define tomorrow\u2019s musical landscape, Trans Musicales is France&#8217;s go-to festival for discovering new and incredibly diverse music from around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>Held each December in the city of Rennes, Brittany, this end-of-year festival has gradually taken on a more international dimension.\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The event wanted to span all types of music and carry its message from one art form &#8211; music &#8211; into others such as dance.\u00a0From rock to hip-hop, to folk, to jazz, to electronic music, to RnB; every genre is represented.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For its forty-first edition from the 4th until the 8th of December 2019,\u00a0<\/span>Trans Musicales stays true to its values with a very diverse line-up made of musicians from 49 countries singing in over 20 languages! Expect jazz, R&amp;B, soul, funk, afro-rock, trap, and about everything in between&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Find below a short-list of acts to not miss including<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Acid Arab, Sahra Halgan, Coco EM, Go Go Machine Orchestra,\u00a0Bantou Mentale,\u00a0Art Melody,\u00a0<\/span>Minyo Crusaders\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and many more.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/abYqLfAGX8E\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>Acid Arab<\/h4>\n<p>Discovered during the unforgettable Trans Musicales 2013 closing party, Acid Arab produces dancey electronic tracks with Arabic and Middle-Eastern sounds. The duo\u00a0went on to become a collective, racking up numerous collaborations including one with Algerian keyboard player, Kenzi Bourras, who has now joined the band.<\/p>\n<p>Their new album Jdid is out now on Crammed Discs, and the \u201cmost exported French group of 2017\u201d is giving us the honour of their first concert in France, showcasing the record. Musically, their dialogue between Western techno and Arabic music is unique, with hints of ra\u00ef, Iraki-Syrian dabkeh, Chaoui incantations, Palestinian arghul, Tunisian mizwad and even psychedelic goblet drums.<\/p>\n<p>Date:\u00a0Saturday,\u00a07\u00a0December<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Coco Em African House Mix | Boiler Room x Ballantines True Music Kenya\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cMPwrzQtY0M?feature=oembed&#038;autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>Coco EM<\/h4>\n<p>Coco EM is a DJ based in Nairobi Kenya. She plays a wide variety of genres ranging from hip hop to afro house, kuduro, kwaito and lingala. At the core of this style is her ability to get you dancing to the beat.\u00a0\u00a0She\u00a0has been playing on some of East Africa&#8217;s most prominent stages, recently playing\u00a0Nyege Nyege\u00a0in Jinja, Uganda and going as far afield as spinning in Israel, bringing her own take on East African house mixes.<\/p>\n<p>Date: Saturday, 7 December<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/R1A4pV8khiE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>\u00a0Sahra Halgan<\/h4>\n<p>Military nurse, political figure and emblematic artist from Somaliland (the self-declared state of North Somalia that declared independence in 1991), Sahra Halgan is an icon and cultural ambassador for her country. With her extraordinary voice \u2013 which has a mix of African and Middle Eastern influences \u2013 moves to the rhythms and keys inherited from Mulatu Atsak\u00e9\u2019s Ethio-jazz, striking up a dialogue with Afro-rock guitars that amazingly evoke assouf, the blues of the desert from the West African Tuaregs. It\u2019s a headily joyful nostalgic sound.<\/p>\n<p>Date: Thursday, 5 December<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ARGJGqtvmnk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>Bantou Mentale<\/h4>\n<p>Created by Cubain Kabeya, drummer and songwriter-composer from Kinshasa, Bantou Mentale is a four-piece made up of guitarist Chicco Katembo, singer Apocalypse as well as Irish producer-composer Liam Farrell (alias Doctor L). Their Afro-rock incantations mix dub bass and beats with electro-hip-hop, making for a sound that blends the numerous influences from the band members\u2019 previous projects. The result explains Kabeya\u2019s intention: \u201cIt\u2019s not really a new Kinshasa sound, but rather a new world sound.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Date:\u00a0Wednesday,\u00a04 December<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aUu-yHg2Fh8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>Continuadores<\/h4>\n<p>Created by two multi-instrumentalists (Ailton Jos\u00e9 Matavela and Tiago Correia-Paulo), Continuadores is an audiovisual project which nostalgically pays homage to Mozambique\u2019s first years of independence, from the revolution to the emergence of\u00a0<em>Mozambicanicity\u00a0<\/em>(the country\u2019s singular and plural cultural identity). The duo presents a dreamlike show in semi-darkness, where Matavela\u2019s superb vocals mix with electronic plumes that trace the outlines of romantic, sensitive pop.<\/p>\n<p>Date :\u00a0Thursday, 5 December \/ Friday, 6 December<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M-78WUlJiHs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>Art Melody<\/h4>\n<p>Art Melody isn\u2019t a new kid on the West African rap block, but the whole world should soon know his husky voice and punchy, even warlike, flow which deliver his incredibly powerful messages. Backed by the Bordeaux-based producer Redrum, he alternates the ambiance depending on the project (Afro-soul, East Coast hip-hop or even electro-hip-hop with Joey Le Soldat as part of Waga 3000). T\u00f4k T\u00f4ko is the first track to drop from his album\u00a0<em>Zoodo<\/em>, in which traditional percussion instruments can be heard evoking industrial music. The sound has a sort of added futuristic-Afro dimension to it, making it just as intense as it is engaging.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0Date:\u00a0Thursday,\u00a0\u00a05 December<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lSGMHKI5xUk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\">Minyo Crusaders<\/h4>\n<p>Following the Fukushima disaster in 2011, guitarist Katsumi Tanaka left in search his of Japanese identity, and instead discovered min\u2019y\u014d \u2013 songs associated with the working class. Tanaka then gathered together a dozen musicians to adapt these traditional songs to music from elsewhere, be that Africa (Afro-blues, Afro-fuk, Ethiopian groove), Asia (Thai pop) or the Caribbean (reggae, cumbia as well as music linked to Cuba, like s\u00f3n, salsa, bolero-s\u00f3n and boogaloo). It all makes for a joyful, unique experience.<\/p>\n<p>Date: Friday, 6 December<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lJflhmcSZi8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<h4>Jawhar<\/h4>\n<p>Tunisian-born Belgian Jawhar Basti weaves a pop-folk sound that\u2019s inspired as much by chaabi as it is the sombre sounds of Timbre Timbre, or Nick Drake\u2019s smooth folk sound. Like the latter, he too has a delicate, ethereal, murmuring voice which sings of love, loss and disillusionment with the Arab Spring. His vocals \u2013 a mix of Arabic, Italian and French \u2013 spell out his own poetry and feeds off emotive melancholia.<\/p>\n<p>Date: Friday, 6 December<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uvYzExLjbWU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>Gyst\u00e8re<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p>80s child Adrien Peskine grew up on a diet of Japanese cartoons and the French kids\u2019 TV show\u00a0<em>Club Doroth\u00e9e<\/em>, and now the shape-shifting artist has created a multimedia concept going by the name of Gystere. Between his over-the-top fake TV shows with a VHS aesthetic, his vintage-tinged videos and his group dressed in extravagant clothing which don\u2019t deny the Sun Ra or Funkadelic\/Parliament similarities, Gystere has built a logical world where the driving factor is music. His funk sound is played by a cosmically cosmopolitan band (with members from Madagascar, Haiti, Ghana, Cameroon and Brazil) who aim towards jazz and progressive sounds filled with aesthetic nods to the 80s (keytar, slap bass), in which Gystere shows off his romantic R&amp;B vocals with a feminist stance.<\/p>\n<p>Date: Friday, 6 December<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BMvM_YyBtVM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\">Edgar<\/h4>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Brazilian artist Edgar develops a visual and musical universe built on his social and environmental concerns (our relationship with technology, natural resource management, pollution\u2026). He exudes sheer dexterity as he switches from rap to spoken word, delivering his message like a whistleblower, backed by apocalyptic electro-hip-hop atmospheres elaborated by Pupillo (drummer from Chico Science &amp; Na\u00e7\u00e3o Zumbi, who appeared at Trans Musicales in 1995). What\u2019s more, he unites style and substance with his homemade costumes made from recycled materials, fully personifying his message on stage.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Date: Friday, 6\u00a0December<\/p>\n<p>Les Trans Musicales\u00a02019\u00a0will take place from\u00a0December\u00a04 to\u00a0December 8\u00a0in Rennes, France. Day tickets are on sale now. For more information, head over to the Trans <span style=\"color: #333333;\">Musicales w<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lestrans.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ebsite<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31379\" src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Transmusicales-2019.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Transmusicales-2019.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Transmusicales-2019-759x569.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Transmusicales-2019-1010x758.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Transmusicales-2019-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Transmusicales-2019-661x496.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Transmusicales-2019-465x349.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Transmusicales-2019-375x281.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trans Musicales more than ever resonates with truly global sounds. 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