"The King of Ghosts" Project at Fez World Sacred Music Festival 2016

Flashback to Fès World Sacred Music Festival in May 2016 for which I conceived a Homage to India with Denis Teste, my partner of ECHO Collective. Thirty established maestros and torchbearers from Kolkata, Jodhpur, Jaipur, Mumbai, Chennai, Toronto, London... to highlight the living sacred heritage of India and its endless creativity! 

In this framework, we invited and produced "The King of Ghosts" project - a live musical performance for the iconic film Goopy Gayen Bagha Bayen by Satyajit Ray (1969) composed and performed by the sarod player Soumik Datta and the percussionist Cormac Byrne.

Here is a short film to relate the story. Music springs from encounters... 

1001 thanks to Souvid Datta & Nick Atkins. 

Ethnopholia TV Series, a collaboration with a Lebanese crew

Ethnopholia is a TV series designed by Abeer Nehme, a well known Lebanese singer, and her relatives. Each episode consists in discovering a musical tradition somewhere on the world map. 

Here are several episodes filmed in India in 2014 and broadcasted on Al Mayadeen in 2016 and 2017 to which I contributed as a music advisor, a local project manager and even as a little character.

Thanks to my friends Soumik Datta (Baul-Fakir gaan field work) & Sougata Roy Chowdhury (classical music in Kolkata).