André Manoukian - La Sultane - Tournée

ANDRÉ MANOUKIAN – LA SULTANE For five albums now, André Manoukian has drawn on Armenian music as an inexhaustible source, its colours blending perfectly with modal jazz.

ANDRÉ MANOUKIAN – LA SULTANE

For five albums now, André Manoukian has drawn on Armenian music as an inexhaustible source, its colours blending perfectly with modal jazz. His piano becomes his inner memory, his cultural heritage, a language of tenderness. Between East and West, his compositions are carried 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 Manoukian 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, Armenian diva, delivers two poignant lullabies.

« Ma Sultane » is what my mother called my little sister before smothering her with kisses. A Turkish word to express the overflowing love of Armenian mothers for their daughters. Boys would hear themselves being murmured to as: mon Pacha.

» André Manoukian