#Jazzdedemain Xavier Belin – Pleonasme Season 4

"The terms 'Caribbean jazz,' 'Creole jazz,' 'Afro-descendant jazz,' or 'Woucikam jazz' have often been used to define my music. I believe these terms are pleonasms, but they are also the most appropriate for defining my musical influences and the music I create."

Pléonasme is the name Xavier Belin chose for a multifaceted, constantly evolving musical project. Over the seasons, Pléonasme has become a free musical laboratory, where forms, encounters, and sonic materials are invented that escape traditional frameworks. Each edition explores new territory. For this fourth season, Xavier Belin places drums at the center of the game. An invitation to discover and hear drums differently.
Ka drum, voodoo, Haitian, Guyanese, Native American: all have their own language, their own timbre, their own breath. They are instruments of struggle, ritual, and connection. They are simultaneously tools of communication, memory, and creation. Through them, the musicians explore a repertoire combining revisited covers, collective improvisations, and new rhythms, fueled by the trio's raw energy. The residency at Baiser Salé will be an opportunity to evolve this sound over time. Not a static concert, but a series of encounters where the project breathes, transforms, and refines. A way of building music in public, through listening, intensity, and play.

For 15 years, #JazzDeDemain has offered young artists the opportunity to perform on stage and refine their repertoire in front of audiences, through a series of monthly and bimonthly residencies. It's a promising and dynamic space where creativity and emulation are limitless. #BeCurious!