Metanoïa

About

Both have explored their instruments on the borders of cultures. Both have sought the here in the elsewhere, and the elsewhere in the here. In the end, these two found each other, as their paths converge. One sculpts the rhythm while the other colors the notes.

As a duo, they make the present rhyme with presence, dialogue with symbiosis, and enjoy sharing their energy with us to give shape to a music of here and now, as well as a global music of all time.

The bansuri is the North Indian flute. A major instrument of Hindustani classical music. The dohola is the father of the darbouka, a Middle Eastern percussion instrument.

What Manuel Hermia and Simon Leleux have in common is that they play instruments from elsewhere, have learned the music of the Orient and the Middle East, but are definitely Belgian artists, who anchor their project and their message in our current reality.

Manuel Hermia created his “Murmure de l’Orient” project several years ago, and Simon Leleux more recently created his Auster Loo Collective project. Both have been nourished by many encounters, and have quenched their thirst to discover and learn the codes of music from elsewhere, particularly the Orient and the Middle East.

Together, they now infuse what they’ve learned into original compositions, nourished by all these digested, transformed and personalized languages, for a style that’s here and now!