Chants du Dedans, Chants du Dehors
Third album
Release: June 2022
Buda Musique & Cas Particuliers / Distribution in France : Socadisc
13 tracks / 61:49 min
For its second album La Silencieuse, the trio Meïkhâneh is surrounded by three guests: Bijan Chemirani on with tzouras and saz lutes and percussions, Uuganbaatar Tsend-Ochir (Egschiglen) on Mongolian horse head double bass ikh khuur and Martin Coudroy on diatonic accordion.
With the help of Le Chantier, centre de création des nouvelles musiques traditionnelles et musiques du monde, the funders of an independant crowdfunding campaign, La Ville de Rennes.
Recorded at Studio du Faune, Montauban-de-Bretagne (France).
Recording and mixing: Antoine Pinçon, Graine de Son, Rennes.
Mastering: Raphaël Jonin, Studio J Raph i.n.g
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TO BE RELEASED ON 10 JUNE 2022
La Silencieuse
Second album
Release: Juin 2017
Buda Musique & Cas Particuliers / Distribution in France : Universal
11 tracks / 59:37 min
For its second album La Silencieuse, the trio Meïkhâneh is surrounded by three guests: Bijan Chemirani on with tzouras and saz lutes and percussions, Uuganbaatar Tsend-Ochir (Egschiglen) on Mongolian horse head double bass ikh khuur and Martin Coudroy on diatonic accordion.
With the help of Le Chantier, centre de création des nouvelles musiques traditionnelles et musiques du monde, the funders of an independant crowdfunding campaign, La Ville de Rennes.
Recorded at Studio du Faune, Montauban-de-Bretagne (France).
Recording and mixing: Antoine Pinçon, Graine de Son, Rennes.
Mastering: Raphaël Jonin, Studio J Raph i.n.g
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FROOTS (UK)
★★★★★ Album Choice
“Hard to imagine it won’t be one of my handful of favourites of the year.” – Ian Anderson
FROOTS (UK)
“Mixing Mongolia, Persia, Eastern and Southers Europe in France, Meïkhâneh are gloriously, spaciously unique. – Elizabeth Kinder
SONGLINES (UK)
★★★
“A rich musical journey with a soul of its own.” – Tim Cumming
BBC (UK)
Broadcast of “Silencia” in World on 3
TRANSGLOBAL WORLD MUSIC CHART
5 months (26, 18, 12, and 17th position) / 38th position among the 100 best albums of 2017
WNYC (US)
Broadcast of “Uulyn Nulims” and “Pluies” in New Sounds
WORLD LITERATURE TODAY (US)
“The Exquisite Sounds of Silence”
VPRO (NL)
“A fascinating trio with its own imaginary folklore” – Charlie Crooijmans
DE SUBJECTIVISTEN (NL)
“A great record that lets you speachless.” – Ian Willem
TOUT NOUVEAU TOUT FIP (FR)
Diffusion de « Silencia »
TÉLÉRAMA SORTIR (FR)
“A high voice with angelic arrays […] but also able to do more Baroque vehemences, which walks somewhere between the Mongolian droning steppes […] and the banks of the Euphrates.” – Anne Berthod
RYTHMES CROISÉS (FR)
“La Silencieuse might be the new name for the soul of the listener after hearing Meïkhâneh” – Stéphane Fougère
BLOGFOOLK (IT)
“Wisdom and depth, fed with soul, thunder, light, dark and visionary atmospheres, dissonances, small sufferings, epiphanies: “La Silencieuse” is all this at once. At each listening, one discovers new details” – Carla Visca
EP
Release: February 2012
Self released: Cas Particuliers
6 tracks / 33’51
Six colourful and amazing tracks, that contain echoes from different traditions from Europe to Mongolia, passing by Iran…
Recorded in May 2011, in “La caisse à musique”, La Fonderie, au Mans. With the help of La Fonderie.
Recording, mixing and mastering: Hervé De Caro, Music-Avenue.
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INSIDE WORLD MUSIC (UK)
“At any rate, Meikhaneh knows how to make an album that is entertaining, memorable, and highly-recommended.” – Matthew Forss
TRAD MAGAZINE (FR)
“TT Genre: unusual and pleasant. […] Meïkhâneh makes us travel in an unusual but friendly sound universe, for a stroll beyond the borders and through Time and Space.” – Gérard Viel
ETHNOTEMPOS (FR)
“A newcomer in the universe of pilgrim musics, Meïkhâneh trio distils a sound mixture that evokes the untamed, windy and arid spaces. One of those who put the human being back to his true place on the globe…” – Stéphane Fougère
OUEST FRANCE (FR)
“This is a beautiful fusion, of a rare intensity.”
LES RENNAIS (FR)
“It is not a night train trip at dusk, but rather a radiant ride between Shahs and Khans. Iran and Mongolia illuminate from beginning to end Meïkhâneh’s first album. Here, the yurts of Ulan Bator have a Bulgarian taste, or at any rate an East European.” – Jean-Baptiste Gandon
LE TÉLÉGRAMME (FR)
“Meïkhâneh […] offers an original repertoire of captivating music and great poetic melodies that open the way for Mongolian rides.“
RADIO CAMPUS RENNES (FR)
“You know what clichés can convey the ‘world music’ label. Here, you can easily forget them all. A mixture of different traditions is offered to your ears for a truly surprising result. It is flow of musical cultures of a rare intensity. »
BLOG BAND MEETING (FR)
“Meïkhâneh has broadcasted very soothing and moving vibrations. It takes some time to regain our minds.“