Fanny Lasfargues
double bass player, bassist and improviser

She experiments with fervor and ambition with the sound limits of her instruments. With the groove as her anchor, she creates a panoply of unheard-of sounds through an abundance of objects and electronic treatments. Founding pillar of the Parisian collective COAX, she has developed numerous projects from improvised solo to immersive shows with videos(Rétroviseur, Pipeline, Five38, SkullTone, Brazil Mashup...). On stage she meets Noël Akchoté, Jérôme Noetinger, Sophie Agnel, Akosh S, Naissam Jalal, Eve Risser, Julien Deprez, Loïc Lantoine, Karimouche, Karim Ziad, Magic Malik... In her personal and original universe, Fanny Lasfargues reveals a "world-instrument" populated with new references and electronic poetry.

François Rossi
drummer

He took his first drum lessons at the age of 7, and around the age of 12 he joined the college variety band, which allowed him to perfect his knowledge of the music of Michel Berger, Jean-Jacques Goldman or Françis Cabrel. It is with assiduity that he immerses himself in this French repertory, while officiating in parallel in his first rock band (that we will avoid naming), rather leaned on Nirvana and Jimi Hendrix. Then he discovered jazz, Miles, Coltrane and Bill Evans. After high school, there was no question of doing anything else with his life than music. Years of conservatories, which do not necessarily take place in an academic way. At the beginning of 2000, he met Barre Phillips, who would become a mentor. Although claiming to be a jazzman, he distances himself from the folklorists of be-bop and explores the music of tomorrow, whether it is hyper saturated or acoustic and minimal.

Nicolas Guériotaine
musician
He has just graduated in applied economics, specializing in environmental economics. He is currently in charge of the Mercantour National Park but works mainly from Marseille. He was raised in a family of music lovers. His father, a drummer and lover of good music, made him aware of it. He started playing the piano at the age of 7 and soon sought to play boogies rather than classical music, and started playing the guitar at the age of 12, and became very interested in the study of harmony. He went through pop, rock, then blues, and finally moved on to soul and jazz. He taught himself bass and took some drum lessons. He had several bands and musical experiences that allowed him to become familiar with the stage. He also likes to make videos in which he plays all the instruments of the same piece.

Arthur Bacon
musician

After attending the Jazz class at the Strasbourg Conservatory, Arthur Bacon completed his studies at the Jazz Institute in Berlin. Multiplying the collaborations one finds him in Berlin and in Brussels in projects going from the electro to the bruitist music. But it is with Zakouska (jazz-gypsy) and The Summer Rebellion (freak-blues) that his accordion playing will find its identity. After several albums and a few years of touring with these two groups, he reveals himself as a dented accompanist and a ferocious improviser; he is one of those musicians who must be seen on stage to appreciate the energy he gives off.

Edmond Hosdikian
saxophonist

From 1981 to 1989, he studied at the conservatory of Marseille, where he obtained the first prize of saxophone and music theory. Very much alive in his music, he mingles with the turmoil of his city. He creates musical events, goes to meet other musicians of all cultures. His love of jazz naturally leads him to express himself in complete freedom, in this creative space where the word has become sound. Free jazz is carried by his saxophone in the frantic search for an "inner harmony". Edmond Hosdikian searches where he is, in his life, in his city, in his origins... "Armenia? I feel it as a part of my body. When everything is going well, you don't think about it. It's when your arm hurts that you become aware of its importance in your life." There will be no compromise between two musics. There will be passions, the pain of the Armenian exile in Marseille, the faith of the kamantcha master, the pain of contemporary Armenia... Duo - duel, simply the love of life. Edmond Hosdikian accompanies many artists like Michel Petrucianni, Barre Phillips, Mike Stern, Jacques Higelin, Jamaaladeen Tacuma...

Manu Théron
singer
It is in southern Italy and Bulgaria, countries that he travelled for more than four years, that Manu Théron discovered singing through the assiduous attendance of performers and traditional choirs. The persistence of cultural and social practices linked to popular song in these regions, their connections with oral literature in dialect, and above all the absence in their daily expressions of any reference to institutionalized folklore, persuaded him that an equivalent practice would have a great impact in his home town and could give rise to a reappropriation of historical and cultural references that are cruelly lacking in Marseille. Within numerous projects (Ve zou via, Madalena, Polifònic System...) or at the head of the group Lo Còr de La Plana, which he founded in 2001, Manu Théron gives impetus to an interpretation that is both rooted in the tradition of Mediterranean popular song and nourished by the contemporary practice of text-based song, where language and rhythms intermingle with force. A passionate musician, he puts the originality of his interpretation at the service of a renewed culture of Oc, which he strives to bring to life both on stage and in his teaching.