A duet in the simplest device – a voice and a guitar – where poetry and matter blend, setting fire on the powder of highly seductive chemistry. With his acoustic guitar in open tuning, Mathieu Sourisseau deploys sonorous landscapes, navigates between blues, noise-folk, rock or improvised music. A monochromatic canvas that makes fun of its own nuances, on which Mike Ladd gives life to his texts. Chanson, rap or scansion, the poetry in English grazes auto-biography, delivers some keys to the lost lovers, grand-mother Rose left for North Carolina, some of the craziest days spent in the Bronx or in Paris, or even revolt and the emancipating role of Afro-American literature.

Six Migrant Pieces are six people of varied origins who are extraordinary, world-class musicians in their own right. They were brought together by their migrations in the cosmopolitan city of Paris. The result is an irresistible, nuanced combination that mixes subtle flavours from France, Italy, Belgium and Vietnam. Written with these six musicians in mind, Christophe Monniot's six compositions are fuelled by the mixing of their different cultures, not forgetting the composer's fondness of particular celebrated forbears (Olivier Messiaen, Weather Report, Leonard Bernstein, Wynton Marsalis, Allan Holdsworth) who, with their trailblazing work, left a lasting impression on music history. This is music conceived as a permanent journey, a perpetual migratory flow.