Mike Ladd, rapper, slammer and songwriter, has been active on all fronts of militant orality, in the tradition of the great beat poets, and now extends his range even further by combining the harsh lyricism of his voice with Mathieu Sourisseau's inventive, travelled guitar. Between improvised blues and noisy folk, the two men blend the intimate and the political in a project as minimalist as it is universal.

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.