Héros et mythes de l’orient ancien

This concert reconnects with the ancient roots of the Mediterranean origins: Phoenician, Sumerian, Urghic, Pre-Islamic … Intimate, epic, warrior, initiatic. With myths, gods, heroes, Zad Moultaka continues his research on the energy of the first languages, passing through real sounds, current or those of invented languages.

Antar 25’ (premiered April 25, 2017) for soprano, bass voice, qanun and instrumental ensemble is the name of an epic as famous in the Arab world as the Thousand and One Nights, she paints the warlike and amorous adventures of a pre-Islamic poet, conveyed by the oral tradition. Antar has put out the eyes of his cruel enemy, who learns to shoot at the bow guided by the sounds, the voice, the song of the birds, the wind, the storms…

Anat 23′- 2015 for bass voice, qanun and instrumental ensemble Sister of the god Baal, Anath or Anat, goes to the underworld to liberate her brother who was held by another god and whose disappearance brings drought and death to men. Inspired by Ugaritic, religious and ritual texts, including mythological fragments and mythical-magic tablets, the phonemes sung by the bass voice are a joyful invention. The music seems to come from the beginning of time, develops an archaic sound dramaturgy.

Neb Ankh 9’- 2007 for soprano and fixed sounds. The play follows the moods of an ancient Egyptian princess as she prepares – with lightness – all the objects and memories she will carry to the afterlife. His trousseau is abundant, heterogeneous, tender and grave at the same time. Staff Two singers, qanun, trumpet in Bb and bugle, two saxophones (alto-sopranino and baritone-alto), contrabassoon, guitar (and a zither tuned in 1/3 of a tone), harp, accordion, double bass, percussion.

premiere April 25, 2017

ensemble 2e2m & Mezwej, Amel Brahim Djelloul & Andreas Fischer, direction Pierre Roullier.
Through the ensemble 2e2m and the ensemble Mezwej, it is the meeting of Western instruments, qanun, the song of the Algerian soprano Amel Brahim Djelloul and the German bass, Andreas Fischer, to create a new space for Arabic contemporary music.