Inspired by Ewan McColl and Charles Parker's BBC Ballads of the 1950s, which revolutionized the concept of musical documentary on the radio, Future Folk Stories proposes a concert device for a radio play mixing songs and pre-recorded texts, acoustic instruments and concrete sounds, electroacoustics and the evocative power of the voice in multiple forms - sung, spoken, chanted...

An original combination of strong musical personalities, we find Robin Fincker, Mathieu Werchowski and Fabien Duscombs of the group Bedmakers, to which we add the electroacoustic bassist with a thousand tones Fanny Lasfargues and the vocal performer Natacha Muslera, whose live voice mixes with others, recorded during the group's peregrinations

Non-professional choir, friendly voices or fresh encounters, Future Folk Stories builds an original sound bank, made up of fragments of melodies, extracts of texts and recorded interviews on the questions of the individual relationship to folklore and the projections of what could be our traditional music of the future. This sound material, piloted and reworked live by Mathieu Werchowski, multiplies the possible interactions and the interlocutors within the group.

Songs cut out then reassembled in the disorder, spoken phrases serving as switches to trigger multiple improvisations, hijacked Anglo-Saxon ritornellos, traditional hymns composed in the moment and ginned up on field-recording broadcasts compose this new repertoire. The quintet thus sketches the elusive contours of a character which would be none other than folk music "in person" in the multiplicity of its representations and its roles; at the same time current and anachronistic, obsolete and by nature perpetually renewed.

Future Folk Stories seeks to question a certain relationship to time, resolutely non-linear, by making multi-century melodies cohabit with free improvisation, in an electroacoustic device where the voice and its various avatars take a central role.