Asfar Shamsi / P.R2B

SEATED/STANDING CONCERT - Free seating. They say it's better to be a hedgerow bird than a caged bird. In a hedgerow, the bird is free to be itself - just as Asfar Shamsi is in her new EP, cui cui.

Free to offer music between rap and electronic music, between intimacy and shyness, between pop and organic.

Free to give us all her colors, shaped since her childhood as a guitarist at the Strasbourg Conservatory, as a schoolgirl with Nepal or Orelsan in her ears, and today through her young adulthood capable of writing the words of an era.

Asfar Shamsi is this artist who cites Laurent Voulzy, Luidji and Stromae as reference points. Artists who never fit into one box, one single palette.

After Au Revoir Février and The Hedgehog's Dilemma, Asfar Shamsi wanted to say things freely but above all simply: in a raw, sincere way, as a lucid and disillusioned observer of this world in permanent tension.

Without making it a sad project, cui cui aims to be testimony to a search for identity as much as to a balance. In a period of reflection and transition, Asfar Shamsi builds with cui cui who she wants to be, as an adult, as an artist.

Asfar Shamsi is also building her freedom on stage. Winner of the Fair and having passed through the Chantier des Francos, she has molded her colors as much as her live: a powerful live, both rap and electronic.

At three on stage, accompanied by her co-composers Wolby on drums and Loufox on keyboards, Asfar Shamsi once again has no intention of locking herself into one box. At the same time why choose?

R2B shook the French music scene in 2020 with the EP "Dreams", then with his first album "Gamma Rays", and a tour across France where the fervor of the public came to confirm that of critics. This year, the artist returns with a highly anticipated new album. His new album is h