© Claire Huteau, 2017
New album
Chants du dedans, chants du dehors
Songs from Inside, Songs from Outside
Release : 10 June 2022
See a videoclip from the album:
Chaque jour nouveau
Inside, a beating heart, outside, the call of the horizon.
Inside, an endless melody, outside, the music of the wind.
Inside, the world’s lullaby, outside, the horizon of possibilities.
Five years after La Silencieuse (Buda Musique 2017), Meïkhâneh affirms more the Persian, Mongolian and European influences of its musical language, at the crossroads of World Music and an imaginary Folklore. The trio explores interiority and exteriority, the cocoon and the vast world, what is felt and what is said. A call to space, to travel, to nature… This new album offers 13 songs that are both luminous and intimate, earthy and vibrant. Sung in Mongolian, Persian, Portuguese, Greek, French and imaginary language, Chants du dedans, Chants du dehors (Songs from Inside, Songs from Outside) delivers limpid, deep melodies, dancing rhythms, in a setting of plucked and bowed strings, between earth and sky.
Photo: Alain Clavier, Studio du Faune
Meïkhâneh
Maria Laurent – vocals, tovshuur lute, banjo, bowed banjo, transverse flute
Johanni Curtet – throat-singing, khöömii, kharkhiraa, backing vocals, guitar, dombra lute, morin khuur fiddle, mouth harps
Milad Pasta – vocals, backing vocals, tombak, daf, riq, udu
Guest musicians
Pauline Willerval – gadulka fiddle, cello
Dylan James – double bass
Recording and Mixing – Bob Coke, at Studio du Faune, Montauban-de-Bretagne (France)
Mastering – Raphaël Jonin, studio J Raph i.n.g.
Production – Cas Particuliers, Buda Musique
Coproduction – La Grande Boutique, La Péniche Spectacle
Special thanks
to the 90 contributors to our Crowdfunding, without whom the album could not BE DONE…
