Where breath becomes landscape
Electro-organic ceremony · three saxophones · desert wind
The performance
The harmattan is the dry, sand-laden wind that blows from the Sahara down to the coasts of West Africa. HARMATTAN is also a performance: one musician whose breath, moving from one saxophone to the next, brings a living soundscape into being.
Over an original electro-organic score, the saxophone does not play on top of the music: it converses with it, transforms it, makes it breathe.
Each piece is one step of a journey through tension, movement, silence and ecstasy. The soundscapes evolve gradually as the three saxophones take up the voice in turn — a narrative without words.
The journey
rises · holds · bursts · falls · rises again — eight stages, a ceremony of about forty minutes.
Booking
HARMATTAN offers an immersive instrumental experience where breath becomes the thread of a journey between desert, trance and light. Technically self-contained, under one hour.