Thierry Robin

The music of the world is fused in to the playing of virtuoso guitarist Thierry Robin. Furthermore to performing like a soloist, Robin offers collaborated with Rajistani percussionist Hameed Khan, Breton guitarist Eric Merchand, Indian vocalist/dancer Gulabi Sepera, Yiddish accordionist Eddie Schaff, and Turkish percussionist Okay Temiz. Developing an 11-piece music group, Nao, with Moroccan, Kurdish, and Indian music artists in 1985, he made up music for French/North African fusion music group Jonny Michto, 2 yrs later. He shaped a trio with Merchand and Khan that mixed Breton and north Indian affects in 1989 along with a Turkish/Kurdish/Breton fusion group that he distributed to Merchand and Temiz in 1993. Robin, who released his career within the middle-’70s by playing traditional music in traditional western France, offers remained eclectic by himself albums. He documented the Gypsy-influenced recording Gitans in 1993, having a ten-piece group that mixed Indian, Arabic, Flamenco, and French folk affects. While he documented Le Regard Nu (the Nude Appear) as an improvising soloist giving an answer to nude versions in the studio room, Payo Michto was documented live throughout a tour of France. Kali Gadji, released in 1998, includes a weighty brass audio and combines affects of Arabic, Flamenco, as well as the Wassoulou music of Mali.