OTHER ISSUES MMVV: 2009

SAM KARPIENIA

From Gacha Empega to Dupain, Sam Karpienia forged over 20 years a gravelly voice with an incomparable evocative power, a gem polished by the elemental forces that pervade the Mediterranean. He has transformed the Marseille music scene offering it a unique voice with the joyous insolence of the new Provençale music of which he is a mainstay. His intense poetry, in French and in Occitan language, marries the trance of two mandols oscillating between the facetious rhythms of a futuristic chaabi and the burning distortions of a devastating rock.