THE SHOW

An original creation of the Oasis Cultures International Festival of Figuig (Morocco) with the Musiques d'Ici et d'Ailleurs festival of Châlons-en-Champagne (France), within a cooperation between the régions of Champagne-Ardenne and the Oriental. The virtuoso gypsy guitar Christophe Lartilleux and and the master of the Arab-Andalusian lute Abdelkarim Gagou perform with their respective side musicians Philippe "Doudou" Cuillerier (guitar and vocals) and Ali Haddad (darbuka, vocals).

When the millenary Eastern tradition meets gypsy jazz in a contemporary interpretation, it affects the universality of music.

Mesmerizing.

THE MEETING

Abdelkarim Gagou was participating as Amazigh music specialist to a demonstration at the UNESCO in March 2011 for the registration of the Figuig oasis as a part of heritage of humanity. This is where he met Christophe Lartilleux (Latcho Drom), guitar virtuoso, "Gypsy" jazz specialist who has integrated the oriental music in his work since its inception "Lungone Dromenca" in 2006.

The immediate complicity of the two artists led them to the creation of joint project "Aman Michto", presented at the Festival of Cultures oasis of Figuig in may and then five times during a successful tour of music festivals in Champagne-Ardenne in July 2012.