André Manoukian - La Sultane - Tournée

ANDRÉ MANOUKIAN – LA SULTANE After 5 albums, André Manoukian draws on Armenian music as an inexhaustible source, its colours blending seamlessly with modal jazz.

ANDRÉ MANOUKIAN – LA SULTANE

After 5 albums, André Manoukian draws on Armenian music as an inexhaustible source, its colours blending seamlessly with modal jazz. His piano becomes his inner memory, his cultural heritage, a language of tenderness. Between East and West, his compositions are supported by the spectacular phrasing of the Indian tablas of Mosin Kawa, the powerful double bass of Gilles Coquard, the cajón of Anissa Nehar, and the sumptuous violins of the Orchestre Appassionato conducted by Mathieu Herzog, arranged by himself and Simon Cochard. A horizon without borders, Levantine arabesques like so many initiatory routes, labyrinths that seem to follow the folds and creases of our memories. Finally, the voice of Arpi Alto, the Armenian diva, delivers two poignant lullabies.

« Ma Sultane » is what my mother called my little sister before smothering her with kisses. A Turkish word expressing the overflowing love of Armenian mothers for their daughters. The boys would hear themselves whispered to as "mon Pacha".

André Manoukian