36IÈME FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL NUITS D'AFRIQUE : IFRIQIYYA ELECTRIQUE

“Trance, the real deal, is at the heart of the Ifriqiyya Electrique experience, like an echo stretching back a thousand years to the sacred source of all primitive arts,” (FIP). François R. Cambuzat has had a few incarnations, including as a young musician playing with Dizzy Gillespie in New York and a budding journalist interviewing Iggy Pop, which have always led him to new adventures. Gianna Greco, a rebel hungry for freedom, justice, and authenticity, and also a fugitive of another time when she met Cambuzat. Together, creating a kind of Beat Generation 2.0, they fire off their all-out electro—raw, authentic, and exuberant. Hovering between North African ritual and brazen bass sounds, this intensity, always ready to erupt, confronts, stuns, and heals the spirit.