Meïkhâneh
Meïkhâneh © Claire Huteau 2017
La Silencieuse (new album front cover)
Meïkhâneh © Claire Huteau 2017
Meïkhâneh © Claire Huteau 2017
Meïkhâneh © Alain Clavier 2023

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Live at Atelier d'Aran, June 2017, Rennes, France
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  • country:France
  • region:Brittany
  • style(s):Global Fusion, World
  • label:Buda Musique
  • type:Small Ensemble, Trio
  • gender:male, female
  • instrumentation:instrumental, vocal, percussion, string, unplugged, lute, guitar
  • artist posted by:Routes Nomades

Line up

  • Anne-Laure Bourget (percussions: dehola, bendir, udu drum, ocean drum)
  • Johanni Curtet (throat-singing, guitar, dombra lute, morin khuur)
  • Maria Laurent (voice, tovshuur lute, banjo, transvere flute)

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Meikhâneh's compositions are fed by imagination, improvisation and traditional music from Europe, Mongolia and Iran. The luminous and captivating voices carry the power of East European singings, the aerial melodies of the great spaces, as well as the depth of the khöömii, Mongolian overtone singing. One can hear traveling cords recalling the steppes of Asia and Andalusia. The chiseled rhythms of percussion draw on the Persian tradition.
Meïkhâneh takes us to the heart of a music without borders that caresses the soul. Its name borrowed from Persian poetry means the "House of Intoxication". We let ourselves be carried...

References: opening act of Susheela Raman, Titi Robin, Trio Chemirani, Natacha Atlas, Las Hermanas Caronni / Bonlieu-scène nationale d'Annecy, Musée des Confluences, Festival Là ! C'est de la musique (Avignon OFF), Les Suds à Arles, Étonnants Voyageurs, Joutes musicales de Printemps, Les Détours de Babel, Sunset, Into the Wild Summer Festival (UK), Woodburner Music Nights (UK); L'Alhambra and Le bout du monde (Switzerland), Klangkosmos tour (Germany)......

For their second album "La Silencieuse", the trio Meïkhâneh, composed of Maria Laurent on vocals, Johanni Curtet on guitar, dombra and khöömii overtone singing, Milad Pasta on Iranian percussions, surrounded by three guests: Bijan Chemirani with the lutes tzouras, saz and percussions, Uuganbaatar Tsend-Ochir (Egschiglen) with Mongolian horse head double-bass ikh khuur and Martin Coudroy with diatonic accordion. Prepared in residence at Chantier (Center for the Creation of New Traditional Music and World Music) with the artistic advice of Bijan Chemirani, Meikhâneh recorded this album at the Studio du Faune.

The last album, "Chants du dedans, chants du dehors" (Songs from Inside, Songs from Outside) was released in June 2022, with guest musicians Pauline Willerval (gadulka fiddle and cello) and Dylan James (doublebass), recorded and mixed at Studio du Faune by Bob Coke (Ben Harper, Mukta, Souad Massi, Daby Touré, Moriarty, Baschung, Noir Désir, Jeff Beck...).

New album Chants du dedans, chants du dehors
Songs from Inside, Songs from Outside
Release : 10 June 2022

Five years after La Silencieuse (Buda Musique 2017), Meïkhâneh affirms more the Persian, Mongolian and European influences of its musical language, at the crossroads of World Music and an imaginary Folklore. The trio explores interiority and exteriority, the cocoon and the vast world, what is felt and what is said. A call to space, to travel, to nature… This new album offers 13 songs that are both luminous and intimate, earthy and vibrant. Sung in Mongolian, Persian, Portuguese, Greek, French and imaginary language, Chants du dedans, Chants du dehors (Songs from Inside, Songs from Outside) delivers limpid, deep melodies, dancing rhythms, in a setting of plucked and bowed strings, between earth and sky.

Medias for "Chants du dedans, chants du dehors" album:

World Music Charts Europe – 52 among the 200 best albums of 2022

Podwireless (ex fRoots, UK) : 8th at the Top 10 of the "Best New Albums 2022"

Spin the Globe (USA) : Top 10 World Music Albums, Oct. 22

5 Planètes (FR) : ####
Songlines : ***
FIP, BBC...

Medias for "La Silencieuse" album:

TRANSGLOBAL WORLD MUSIC CHART - 38th position of the 100 best albums of 2017.

fROOTS (UK)
★★★★★ - Album Choice
“Hard to imagine it won't be one of my handful of favourites of the year.” - Ian Anderson
“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

WORLD LITTERATURE TODAY (USA)
"The Exquisite Sounds of Silence.”

NEW FOLK SOUNDS (NL)
"This (...) symbiosis of styles, backgrounds, origins (...) produces a sublime form of eclectic world music. (...) The creations of Meikhaneh are on the one hand unpredictable, irresistible as well (...). It is both spiritual and down to earth, enchanting, moving and ever endearing. What a beauty, what a discovery." – Marius Roeting

VPRO (NL)
“Intoxicating imaginary folklore” – Charlie Crooijmans

DE SUBJECTIVISTEN (NL)
“An excellent disc that lets you speechless” – Jan Willem

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

TÉLÉRAMA SORTIR (FR)
“A high voice often with an angelic appearence (…) which is also capable of more baroque intensity, that wanders in a mind-blowing way somewhere between the Steppes of Mongolia (…) and the sides of Euphrates.” – Anne Berthod

RYTHMES CROISÉS (FR)
« La Silencieuse, c’est, peut-être, le nouveau nom de l’âme de l’auditeur quand il a écouté Meïkhâneh. » – Stéphane Fougère

> Radios: BBC, PBS, WNYC, FIP, WDR, RSI, Mundofonias, KAOS Radio (Top 10 World Music Albums)...

Download the complete press review:
http://www.meikhaneh.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/MEIKHANEH_REVUEDEPRESSE_17_18.pdf

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