Diomira Trio

Presented by Mandapa (L.1030148)A cross-border musical journey between Mediterranean modal traditions and contemporary jazz.Inspired by the first city of Villes Invisibles of Italo Calvino, a city-thinker with a hundred silver domes where memories intersect, Diomira is an organic and moving musical creation, conceived as a territory of encounter and intercultural dialogue.Under the artistic direction of the flutist and ney player Andrea Romani, this project brings together musicians from plural backgrounds (France, Greece, Italy, Turkey) around a common ambition: decompartmentalize musical forms and resonate living traditions in the language of the present. The repertoire revolves around original compositions and bold reinterpretations that draw their strength from the intuition of Asie Mineure's modal music., Rebetiko and maqam, while feeding on the raw energy of free jazz and the textured research of Western contemporary music.: here, No partitions are fixed. The Trio, the textured breath of Andrea Romani, the deep lines and backbone of the double bass of Leïla Soldevila, and modern embroideries of the oud of Stefanos Floras, works from open canvases, of old fashions and an absolute mutual listening.Each concert thus becomes a unique and fragile experience, A space of suspended reinvention where silence responds to rhythmic fulgurances. An intense, sensitive and resolutely contemporary poetic journey that invites the public to explore the shifting boundaries of our shared imaginations. Andrea Romani (ney, flute, voice): Jazz flute player, ney player and singer, he is the disciple of the Turkish master Ömer Erdogdular. Artistic director of the Diomira collective and the international Jazz-Maqom project, he dialogues the freedom of jazz with the modal music of Central Asia and the Mediterranean. Leïla Soldevila (double bass): Graduate of a Master in jazz and improvised music from the CNSMD of Paris, she explores with the same freedom jazz, classical music and traditional music. A rhythmic pillar of the collective, she puts the power and depth of her instrument at the service of live and collective dialogue. Stefanos Floras (oud, voice): Trained in classical percussion and graduated in oud and traditional singing at the CRD of Gennevilliers, this French-Greek musician is a specialist in Mediterranean modal music. Composer for cinema and live performance, he mixes the richness of ancient traditions with resolutely modern aesthetics.