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Layale Chaker and Sarafand
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 May 2027 | ||||||
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Lebanese composer Layale Chaker, with her Sarafand quintet, has created Radio Afloat, a programme that embodies her complex and warm soundscape, blending jazz, Arabic music, and contemporary sounds. In addition to Layale Chaker's violin and vocals, the quintet features cello, bass, drums, and keyboard. Echoing the poem The Trace of Blue Passion by Lebanese writer Ounsi el-Hage, Radio Afloat—the vision of a radio lost at sea—explores the intertwined destinies of people and the natural world and their shared vulnerability, in the form of a musical journey through the collective memory.
This concert is part of the Saison Méditerranée 2026 by Institut français programme.
Program and cast
Violin and vocals: Layale Chaker
Quintet: Sarafand
Piano: Phillip Golub
Cello: Jake Charkey
Drums: John Hadfield
Electric bass: Sam Minaie
Auditorium Campra, Conservatoire Darius Milhaud
The Darius Milhaud Conservatoire (CRR) lies at the very heart of the Aix cultural centre. It was designed by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma and inaugurated in 2013. His Campra auditorium, crafted mainly out of wood, boasts a 240 m² stage and can accommodate an audience of 500 people.
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