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"Les Yeux Noirs Show" sing in Surabaya , Indonesia
Our contributor writes:
Les Yeux Noirs show in AJBS Surabaya in the series of South East Asia tour.
Les Yeux Noirs, French music group, which means 'black eye', led by brothers Eric and Olivier Slabiak,a talented violinist. Les Yeux Noirs bring rock music and yiddish-gypsy-pop theminto the platforms around the world since 1992. Through a captivating rhythm, folksong, poems and stories about other worlds, this band and searched hisrelentless self-exploration. Plays the traditional music of their ancestors bold, LesYeux Noirs invites us to travel that inflame the liver into the middle of nomadic life.
Les Yeux Noirs (read: lésyeunoar), who arrive in Indonesia in the series of their tour to Southeast Asia. In addition to the city of Surabaya, their tour are at Jogjakarta (17/4) and Jakarta (18/4).
Personels of Les Yeux Noirs are Eric Slabiak : vocal and violin, Olivier Slabiak : vocal and violin, Franck Anastasio : guitar, Remi Sanna: drum, and Julien Herné : bass.
It's not just because Les Yeux Noirs are fronted by two violin-wielding brothers that the word 'fraternity' comes to mind. Eric and Olivier Slabiak have produced a band that, while scoring extremely highly on the musical front, also come with a peace-love-and-understanding vibe fitted as standard. Considered and complex yet wild and occasionally raucous, Les Yeux Noirs (The Black Eyes) certainly give notions of musical purity a good bruising.
Theirs is a sound that ignores the divisions of political maps, sneaks past border patrols and extends the hand of - it's that word again - fraternity right across Central and Eastern Europe. Equal parts gypsy and klezmer (with plenty of jazzy flourishes to boot), the band draw on music from right across the region, from Hungary down to Armenia.
It's an exhilarating, winding journey, most often conducted at a pedal-to-the-metal, breakneck speed. Fans of Taraf de Haidouks or Nigel Kennedy's work with the Polish band Kroke are well-advised to get on board. Their new favourite band has just arrived.
16/04/12