Asfar Shamsi / P.R2B

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

Free to offer music somewhere between rap and electronic music, between intimacy and restraint, between pop and the organic.

Free to give us all her colours, shaped since childhood as a guitarist at the Strasbourg Conservatoire, as a schoolgirl with Népal or Orelsan in her ears, and today as a young adult able to write the words of an era.

Asfar Shamsi is the kind of artist who cites Laurent Voulzy, Luidji and Stromae as references in the same breath. Artists who never fit into a single box, a single palette.

After Au Revoir Février and Le Dilemme du Hérisson, Asfar Shamsi wanted, in turn, to say things freely but above all simply: rawly, sincerely, as a clear-eyed and disillusioned observer of this world in constant tension.

Without making it a sad project, cui cui is meant to bear witness to a search for identity as much as for balance. In a period of deep reflection and transition, Asfar Shamsi uses cui cui to build who she wants to be, as an adult, as an artist.

Asfar Shamsi is also building her freedom on stage. A Fair award winner, then having gone through the Chantier des Francos, she has shaped her colours as much as her live show: a powerful live set, both rap and electronic.

A trio on stage, joined by co-writers Wolby on drums and Loufox on keys, Asfar Shamsi once again intends to do nothing that would box her in. And after all, why choose?

R2B shook up the French music scene in 2020 with the EP "Des rêves", then with his debut album "Rayons Gamma", and a tour across France where the audience's fervour confirmed that of the critics. This year, the artist returns with a highly anticipated new album. His new album is h