RTISTS
Abdelhai Bennani (tenor saxophone); Itaru Oki (trumpet, bugle, flutes, Indian flute, yokobue); Alan Silva (contrabass); Makoto Sato (drums)

Abdou Bennani had already noticed in 1998 when the CD release "Childhood" in margin. Follower of a pure and serene that emphasizes listening and fluidity, it is to remind us of the essential role of poetry and the creative act in improvised music. A breath of well-being ...
orn in Fez (Morocco) in 1950, Abdelhai Bennani is initiated in childhood to traditional rhythms simple to participate in the festivities. About ten, eleven, he discovered Western music on radio and jazz discs. But it is a few years later, through the discs of Jimi Hendrix, he meets a popular music using improvisation as expression system. After spending his tray, he went to Marseille to study biology. At the end of his studies, he realized that music is essential for him to communicate. Also, at the age of thirty, he decided to devote himself to the saxophone and moved to Paris. From 1983 to 1985, he attended the IACP (Institut Art Culture Perception) and got acquainted with its founder, Alan Silva . But, very attached to his culture where the mode of transmission is oral principlement, he rejects the written score and struggling to find musicians to play with.

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