Magic Malik, one of the greatest French jazz flautist, invited another nomadic architect and passionate experimenter, Prabhu Edouard. His rhythmic mastery of the tree structure of Indian talas (rhythms), combined with his insatiable curiosity for music and the world, as well as his generosity and his smiling humanism, intrinsic to his artistic attitude, open up new perspectives through his compositions. at the temple of Indian music, music in general.

He navigates between jazz, pop, electro or contemporary music. His originality, besides an unusual technique, is his exuberant playing and the use of numerous cries and chants in his flute, called growl. Magic Malik has collaborated with many artists such as -M-, Camille, Bumcello, Air, Pierrick Pédron, Aka Moon, Claire Diterzi, the Trinidadian poet and slammer Anthony Joseph and the Malian singer Oumou Sangaré.

In 2017, he founded the Fanfare XP, a gathering of fifteen musicians around a musical composition charter allowing to explore the composition and improvisation developed by Malik during his career: taléas-colors (shifts between rhythmic and melodic phrases), tonal signatures (harmonic world developed by Malik), Messiaen mode.

More recently in 2019, he dabbled in the modern jazz repertoire for the first time. At the head of a Jazz Association which includes in its ranks the brilliant trumpeter Olivier Laisney (Slugged, Oxyd, Gil Evans Paris Workshop …) and the wisp pianist Maxime Sanchez (recent finalist of the Thelonious Monk Competition), Magic Malik plays this music that nourished and revisits her in its own way, without nostalgia and without repetition, with its humor, its rigorous fantasy, and the memory of Eric Dolphy and Booker Little in the back of his mind.

Magic Malik (Flute & Voice), Prabhu Edouard (Tabla), Pauline Sikirdji (Mezzo-soprano), Maya Villanueva (Soprano), Illya Amar (Percussions)