Robinson Khoury MŸA

Modular Ethno Rythm

The versatile trombonist, composer and arranger Robinson Khoury is regarded as one of the rising stars of French jazz. He has made a name for himself not only as a member of the Parisian oriental post-rock/analogue synthesizer/world jazz sextet Sarāb or as a soloist with the Metropole Orkest, but also as a sought-after sideman for greats such as Quincy Jones and Ibrahim Maalouf.

His new trio MŸA is dedicated to the search for the organic origins of life, exploring the rhythms and sounds of our ancestors through electro-acoustic soundscapes shaped by modular synthesizers and wordless vocals. Like Khoury himself, the trio is deeply rooted in Middle Eastern scales on the one hand and in the modern jazz idiom on the other.

With Anissa Nehari on percussion and Léo Jassef on keyboards, Khoury's MŸA takes us on a long, intermittently high-energy dream journey with retro-futuristic undertones, as imaginative as the soundtrack of a science fiction film shot on the other side of the Mediterranean, thus touching on the ever resonating primal sounds of our collectively shared, archaic human memory.