Violons Barbares - Saulem ai (2014)

Barbaric violins - Balkan melodies, galloping rhythms and majestic throat singing. The trio is composed of two fiddle players and a percussionist. From the steppe country of Mongolia comes Dandarvaanchig Enkhjargal, who sings overtone singing and plays morin khoor (horse-head fiddle). Bulgarian Dimitar Gougov plays gadulka, an instrument with three melodic and 11 resonant strings. When it comes to the French drummer Fabien Guyot, he plays everything imaginable to create sound, it may be the African tambourine, darbuka, salad bowls, pots, and the home-made kish kish - a cake tin filled with nuts and bolts and sundry items... Violons Barbares is three virtuosos who take us masterfully to a musical destination we did not know existed, a strange, fascinating music, brimming with energy and folk inspiration, yet decidedly contemporary.