Titi Robin: buzuq, 'ud, guitar / Gulabi Sapera: vocals and dance / Ze Luis Nascimento: percussions / Pascal "Kalou" Stalin: bass / Francis Varis: accordion / Jose Montealegre: vocals / Dino Banjara: dance, percussions / Maria: vocals, dance / La Coque: percussions / Silvio Soave, Guillaume Dubois, Séverine Galou: sound engineers
Influences
styles: Mediterranean and gipsy musics, ghazal, sufi culture;
artists and poets: Munir Bashir, El Camaron de la Isla, Yashar Kemal, Toni Morrison, Ghamar Molouk Vaziri, Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Safiye Ayla, Rosa Eshkenazi, Anna Akhmatova, Ali Farka Toure, Suleyman Erguner, Asik Veysel, Matelo Ferre, Django Reinhardt, Paco de Lucia, Ustad Mohammad Reza Shajarian, Esma, Amir Khusru, Hafez, Yannis Ritsos, Seamus Heaney, Alisher Navoi.
Sounds Like
"ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING FRENCH GYPSY GUITARISTS TODAY" Los Angeles Philharmonic / Hollywood Bowl
photo Véronique Guillien
IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THE GULABI SAPERA AND TITI ROBIN MUSICAL CONNEXION, GO ON: http://www.myspace.com/gulabisaperathierrytitirobin .. Visit Gulabi & Titi's site!
photo Louis Vincent photo Louis Vincent "with Maria and Dino on stage" photo Louis Vincent
photo Louis Vincent photo Louis Vincent photo Louis Vincent "with Francis Varis & Ze Luis Nascimento" photo Louis Vincent "Kalou & Pepito on palmas" photo Louis Vincent
Titi Robin with qawal Faiz Ali Faiz (www.lart-scenes.org) with Danyel Waro & Michto Maloya (Louis Vincent) photo: Louis Vincent
photo Louis Vincent
Beyruth, august 2005, newspaper: Al Balad La Coque (photo Louis Vincent) photo Louis Vincent New Esma Redzepova CD featuring Titi (Accords Croisés prod) photo Louis Vincent Titi & "Gitans" photo Véronique Guillien
TITI ROBIN plays mediterranean music of his own.... Gypsy, Mediterranean and Balkan cultures are always clearly present in Titi Robin's music. Both on his records and on stage, Gypsies and Payos, the French and Spanish, Indians, Iranians and Arabs have agreed to dialogue and it is this reconstructed tribe, a genuine arborescence of musicians met over time, that we find around Titi Robin. He plays essentially his own compositions with an important part of improvisation. Titi meet with a large audience of both erudite music-lovers and amateurs of Mediterranean music and tour from Japan to the Hollywood Ball (USA), from South Africa to Europes major World Music festivals....
Thierry Titi Robin is a fringe artist. He is placed within a World Music movement that he does not acknowledge, as it seems to him to be motivated by a profound ethnocentricity, creating a barrier between Western ethnic music (rock, jazz) and others! For him, the crossing of music is not a value in itself, but quite simply a reality, his reality. The main thing is to find the right path between the feeling giving rise to the creation and the artistic form used to express it, whether it take a purely traditional form or one that explodes all established codes. Forging his own path, he has taken heed of the encouragement given by eminent artists such as flamenco singers Fosforito and Chano Lobato, as well as the virtuoso oud player Munir Bachir, who have seen in this atypical approach sincerity and authenticity that go well beyond any differences....
This music for listening and dancing....
GO TO HIS OFFICIAL WEBSITE: http://www.thierrytitirobin.com/....
Esma Redzepova invites Titi Robin at "Les Suds" in Arles (France 2007)
Titi recorded "GITANS" in 1992
" "GITANS" WAS NOT ONLY RANKED AS ONE OF THE BEST ALBUMS OF THE YEAR BY CRITICS AROUND THE WORLD, BUT IT IS WIDELY CONSIDERED ONE OF THE BEST ALBUMS OF GYPSY MUSIC EVER RECORDED." Dan Rosenberg, The gypsy road
Merci d'avoir accepter mon invitation! je suis très heureuse de faire partie de tes amis myspaciens! J'ai adoré ta musique ! le concert était vraiment magnifique Yasmine
Toujours aussi fantastique, c est de mieu en mieu. Je ne t ai pas oublié et t'admire toujours autant.Bonne et longue route à toi mon titi. JE T EMBRASSE.
coucou titi, on est à lyon avec zingaro jusqu'a mi juillet si des fois tu passes par la, viens donc nous voir! sinon on passera sans doute a angers debut aout je te tiens au courant, ta filleul te fais un gros bisous!(c'est elle qui me l'a dit) et moi je t'embrasse bien fort. A bientot
Bonjour Titi, je viens de retomber dans ton album "Payo michto",et sur le morceau "l'exil", et c'est fou toutes les finesses qu'on peut entendre avec le recul...
