Mizmar - Mixit (2014)

MIZMAR is the name of a project by Rodrigue LECOQUE, the keyboards player of AMETHYST. This album presents the original soundtrack of "Contes De La Main Gauche" ("Tales Of The Left Hand"), an anthology written by Guillaume LECOQUE. It was realized during the autumn and winter 2001-2002, and relates to the Arabian Nights. The inspiration for these tales comes from photographs captured in Yemen by Guillaume. The music is between electro-world (Close to ANOKHA, ASIAN DUB FOUNDATION...), trip-hop (MASSIVE ATTACK, AIR...) and Progressive rock, through the symphonic aspect of certain pieces. The artist used samples specially captured in Yemen and enabling a blend of occidental and oriental music. Influences such as that of Yann TIERSEN are also sensible. Through that album, Rodrigue LECOQUE drifts somewhat from the jazz-rock fusion music of his band AMETHYST, in order to realize a more personal and intimist opus. This is a way for him to share the whole scope of his musical world. Since 2012, MIZMAR is an electro jazz oriental trio with Nabil GHANNOUCHI on Oud and Nay (Tunisian traditional flute), and Agata NOWAK on drums and percussions. The new line-up revisits some pieces of the initial project, and creates new songs as well, more acoustic. The second album by the band, named "Mixit" (2014), is again published on the Musea Parallèle label.