🎶Grégory Dargent, Youssef Hbeisch and Manu Théron resume with the energy of renewed hope the "Sirventés de Guerre" of the Occitan golden age, here at the Cloître Saint Trophime. The Sirventés, this dissenting song and straightforward, ancestor of the protest song, is the matrix of all the songs of struggles and fights.

🎶 Pour ce 21e épisode des Suds, tout court, George Xylouris, grand joueur de laouto, chante la complainte profonde d’une Crète ancestrale, et dialogue dans les Arènes d'Arles avec le batteur Australien Jim White.

💛  Inhabited by a telluric force when he sings, King Ayisoba plays the kologo (a small two-string guitar mounted on a calabash), delivering a trance between the mystical forest and the cracked concrete of Accra. He delivers in 2017 an acoustic performance for Les Suds, tout court at the LUMA Foundation.

✨ His poetic ballads drawn from African culture, the land of his ancestors. He sings in Kikongo and Kimbundu but also in Portuguese, English and Spanish. The Brazilian poet, composer and philosopher Tiganá Santana offers us, for this 19th episode of Les Suds, tout court, a moment of elegance and softness with "Bwanana", at the Cloître Saint Trophime.

🎶  For this 18th episode of Les Suds, tout court, Alsarah, American-Sudanese songwriter and ethno-musicologist, known for her "East African retro-pop" with The Nubatones, performs here, solo and acoustically "Jamila" in the Chapelle Saint-Jean de Moustiers d'Arles.

🎻 For this 17th episode of Les Suds, tout court, the quintet directed by Henri Maquet puts to music the fantastic stories of the Pays d'Arles in the majestic courtyard of the Château de Tarascon - Centre d'art René d'Anjou

♒︎ For this 16th episode of Les Suds, tout court, we meet the virtuoso, prolific and inspired clarinetist YOM in the heart of the Camargue, in Salin-de-Giraud.

❤️ Rosemary Standley's voluptuous voice is tuned to Bruno Helstroffer's guitar for this 15th episode of The Suds, tout court, in the patio of the Hôtel de l'Amphithéâtre in Arles.

☀️ For this 14th episode of les Suds, tout court, at the Alyscamps in Arles, the South Africans of BCUC are broadcasting their energetic music, borrowing as much from hip-hop as from ancestral Zulu music.

💃🏻 Flamenco in the spotlight for this 13th episode of les Suds, tout court: let yourself be rocked by the cante jondo of Niño de Elche on the roof of the Eglise des Frères Prêcheurs in Arles.

🌴For this 12th episode of Les Suds, tout court, we meet Danyèl Waro, undisputed figure of La Reunion Island maloya, behind the Théâtre Antique d'Arles.

🎸Rendezvous at the Arles Arena for this 11th episode of les Suds, tout court, to the sound of flamenco strings of the young guitarist prodigy Samuelito.

☀️ The solar timbre of the Cape Verdean singer Lucibela's voice illuminates the Cloître Saint-Trophime in Arles for this 10th episode of les Suds, tout court.

♒︎ For this 9th episode of Les Suds, tout court, the Kurdish singer Aynur bewitches the Thermes de Constantine in Arles with her luminous voice.

🎹 Intense moment of emotion for this 8th episode of Les Suds, tout court, with the Lebanese pianist Bachar Mar-Khalifé at the Conservatory of Music of the Pays d'Arles.

💃 Alba Molina canta a Lole y Manuel in the privacy of the Church of Saint-Honorat des Alyscamps in Arles, for this 8th episode of les Suds, tout court

❤️ Rusan Filiztek is inspired by the songs and melodies of Anatolia and Mesopotamia to create a dialogue between the music and the eras, here at the Arenas of Arles for the 6th episode of the Suds, tout court.

🎶 Reviving the colors of a childhood bathed in Algerian chaabi and Arab-Andalusian music, Djazia Satour sings of exile and wandering, for this 5th episode of the Suds, at the Théâtre Antique d'Arles.

🎻 For this 4th episode of les Suds, tout court, the all-terrain cellist Gaspar Claus offers us an inspired composition in the heart of the Saint-Honorat des Alyscamps Church in Arles.

🌿 For this 3rd episode of Les Suds, tout court, Titi Robin plays one of his compositions on saz solo and acoustically in the magnificent Allée des Alyscamps in Arles.

✨Let's meet with Blick Bassy at the Cloître St Trophime in Arles, for this 2nd episode of Les Suds, tout court, tinged with blues in the Bassa language.

🎻For this very first episode of les Suds, tout court, Cuban virtuoso Ana Carla Maza shines and becomes one with her cello in the splendid Hôtel L’Arlatan in Arles.