Aka Moon “Take the Coltrane”

Aka Moon feat Robin Eubank & Wajdi Riahi

Aka Moon

Presents its new creation: “Take the Coltrane”

If the Aka Moon trio found its full moon in the heart of the Central African forest with the Aka Pygmies, John Coltrane has always been their sun; a breath of inspiration where boldness and renewal meet tradition, so that music remains a celebration and the concert transforms into a ritual: a space to discover what is not yet known.

Today, the triangular geometry of the group opens the way to two giant planets, Robin Eubanks and Wajdi Riahi; one, nourished by the strength of his immense history, very close to the Coltrane radiance (with Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner, Ravi Coltrane…); the other, driven by his African roots and his insatiable desire to explore ever further the very essence of this art.

The story of Aka Moon has unfolded over more than thirty intense years like a tree with infinite branches; transmission has always been the prolific sap of ideas, a place of synchronization of memories and invocation of creative gestures from multiple sources.

Coltrane reminds us, among other things, that art is an act of absolute honesty in which one accepts to lose, out of love, what one has gained through reason.

Beyond the conventional “tribute to…”, this gathering takes shape as a constellation that belongs neither here nor elsewhere; an experience of life and vitality that will undoubtedly benefit from the virtual “Mirror Drumming” between Stéphane Galland and Elvin Jones.